At last I’m finally out of my old Orange contract and have got myself a new shiney iPhone. Just stumbled across the site Poolga which has a pretty impressive selection of wallpapers you can download for it for free. I especially like the simple silhouetted animal shapes by Laszlo kovacs.
I‘m loving the massive wool afros on these dolls by Marilyn and John Neuhart, from the 1960’s. Got a feeling there might be some experimenting with barnets on mine and Nicky’s sock monkey’s soon :) See the full interview with Marilyn on The Scout.
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To be honest I had intended to kick start my blog back off with a load of nice design and illustration finds, but I could resist posting this ridiculous cock shaped guitar!
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First blog post from sunny England! I’ve been back a while now, but have been ill the past few days so couldn’t muster the effort to write anything… Anyhow, I don’t normally like posting YouTube videos, but this literal version of Take On Me by A-ha made me piss myself. Dustball has also made a follow up – Head Over Heels, not quite as good though.
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A big thankyou to everyone who has sponsored us :) So far we have raised a whopping £2,019.99 for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust, I am sure there will be more to come now that we have made it to the end. Remember you can sponsor us online here.
Well in the process of raising all those pounds, we have lost quite a few ourselves! Here is our before and after shots so that you can laugh at how much we have changed!
Originally I was 185 pounds, cleanly shaved and sported a fine moustache. Now I am 150 pounds, and a bit of a beardy weirdy. (The lady who drove us to Lethbridge said when she first saw me, she thought I was a crystal meth addict) Think I need to put a bit of that weight back on… Also my hair has changed colour quite a lot since I have been away, my eye brows have almost gone white!
Originally he was 168 pounds, cleanly shaved and going a bit bald on top. Now he is exactly the same as me, 150 pounds and also a bit of a beardy weirdy and still a bit bald up top. Although I think he has clearly won the beard growing competition with that big bush on his chin.
“I will be a bit sad to see the beard go as it has kept me warm the last month or so but my girlfriend Claire has already started the bribery proceedings and it will be getting shaved off when I meet her in Calgery in a few days.
All in all the trip has been a fantastic experience and one that will not be beaten for a very long time. Its been an opportunity to have a real adventure and we will be boring family and friends for years to come with stories and anecdotes of the trip.
I would also like to thank everyone that has sponsored us so far for their suport and generosity but there are still a lot of our friends who we will be chasing when we see them next. You know who you are….” Paul
Well we made it to Waterton in good time and started celebrating hard – drank all the beer in the liquor store! The place is closing down for winter so there wasn’t that much left ;) Managed to convince the chef at the Kilmorey Lodge the cook us up each a steak twice as big as the biggest ones on his menu. It was a 20oz brick and definetly in our top 3 steaks on the trail :) We felt a bit like minor celebrities, everyone in the resturant gave us a standing ovation and were asking us questions all night. The waitress even agreed to drive us an hour and a half across Canada the following morning to get to Lethbridge (where we are now) so we could hire a car (nearest place).
Whats next. Well we have about a week to kill before I fly back to England and Paul’s girlfriend Claire flys out here for a little holiday. So were just going to hire a car, fill it with booze and beef, drive around and find a nice campsite, make a bif fire and get drunk! If anything amusing happens I will let you know.
At last we’ve made it to Canada and the end of our trail. It’s taken us 162 days to get here and 3000 odd miles. We’ve now just got about 4 more miles to do to get to Waterton town, where we can get as pissed as lords to celebrate :)
Almost there! The border of Canada is halfway down this lake, and beer is at the end of it, it’s a long lake though…
It was quite apt that our last night on the trail was also our coldest. Didn’t get much sleep, but don’t care as this is our last day and the finnishing line is in sight. We’ve got no food left and are we’re wearing just about all our clothes, so our rucksacks feel light as a feather, we’re going to fly down the mountain to Canada :)