Hamster Dancin' Around the World

ehBeth, Setanta, the dogs and I went on a road trip today.

We drove north and then east to a cute little town called Uxbridge.

ehBeth was there to get a new tattoo. Setanta and the dogs went for walks, and looked for burgers.

Everyone was successful.

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ehBeth asked me to look over the contract, while Grazzhopper started working on the actual design.

I prepare to sign the contract for ehBeth

Jamie's still working on the pattern. This took about half an hour - he looked at the original picture, decided on the size and direction, then prepared a design template.

While Grazzhopper was getting the ink and stuff ready, I watched his apprentice Dougie freehand a practice piece.

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this is what ehBeth came home with



this is her poem

The Song of
The Fuchsia Fairy

Fuchsia is a dancer
Dancing on her toes,
Clad in red and purple,
By a cottage wall;
Sometimes in a greenhouse,
In frilly white and rose,
Dressed in her best for the fairies' evening ball!

Ok, I was a little worried that you were getting a tattoo of Penny...

The Fuschia Fairy is lovely.

Doing my best to be as patient as possible.

Very nice tatoo Beth :-D

Cool

We've been a bit busy since the tattoo adventure.

Saturday, Penny joined Setanta and the girls (Kathy, Teresa, ehBeth and the Empress) on an evening out - snacks at Cafe Demetre and then a concert.

Things were a little confusing at the beginning. Kathy was inside the restaurant while everyone else was outside waiting for her. Just as Penny and ehBeth started to look around at other restaurant options, Penny spotted Kathy inside, looking around and enjoying a cup of tea. The camera was forgotten in the ensuing hilarity.

Cafe Demetre is in

with the church hosting the concert just down the block.

Teresa's snack looked very much like this



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Here ... click ... are the programme notes from the concert we went to. The acoustics were amazing.

This guy



was wild. He sold the tickets, set up the hall, took the tickets, played in 5 out of 6 pieces, set up the cookie trays for intermission, was the m.c., handled the lights ... we're going to offer to help with set up next time we go.

The concert was here




Penny had been past it a few times in the past weeks, as the bellydance studio is almost directly across the street.

When we got back from the concert, I had a snooze with Bailey.



We've been busy!

Sunday morning, I chilled with Cleo while the people zoomed around doing all kinds of stuff.

We're like girlfriends now.



ehBeth was quite surprised how well we get on.

Cleo's not always been the friendliest. I heard the people talk about how Cleo's socialization has been going verra well.

On Sunday we were off to another church. Well, I'd actually been there before, but it was a different concert. (that woman goes to a lot of concerts, or does it just seem that way to me?)



This time the concert was



ehBeth had me save her seat, and hold the programme, while she went to get a coffee and cookie at the pre-concert lecture

I was in my regular seat once we got inside



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from where we were sitting we could see the wires and microphones for taping the concert for later broadcast on the CBC

There was lots of neat stuff to look at



these are the pipes of the pipe organ

kinda neat how the bottom looks like the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument



here ... click ... is a link to a nice page with a bit of organ/recorder music when it opens

here's another view of the opening of organ pipes

very cool to think about how they make music



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ

This page ... click ... has really interesting links to information about pipe organs and samples of their music

in this picture you can see the keyboard the organist uses - and you can just see the bottom of the wall the pipes are in

I really liked the windows on the south wall

After intermission, I moved to a spot closer to the edge of the balcony - I could listen through the spaces in the gothic carvings



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The concert was really good, but I was sure glad to get back to the house to relax for a day or so.

On Monday and Wednesday night we went to bellydance class here.



Our regular Monday night teacher was off with the cold we had last week.

Anuka



taught instead. She'd just had laser eye surgery so she wore sunglasses. Very funny!