Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

Cantuccini Chocolate Chip Biscotti, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006VEF27K?smid=A1BVS44J3KYDYH&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp&th=1

 

My introduction to mice!

 

Makes mental note that next time I want to throw anything out to send @Gareth Halfacree a message.

 

I just got the remarkable 2 a few months ago and now they announce a replacement… <incoherent grumbling>

But… plus ça change, I guess. You can’t keep waiting for the next model before buying because there will always be a next model…

 

No, I know it’s not technically a replacement, but it’s still irritating

And that sounds really crappy about the pen, tbh. I tried the marker once and immediately bought a Lamy Al-Star EMR pen instead (though I still use the remarkable nibs).

 

My daughter attended a ballet residential last week and we were informed she's ready for pointe.

She's over the moon, and I'm obviously proud of her, but also my latest purchase this morning was the first of many pairs of £80 shoes that will last ~20 hours

 

Congrats to Ms_Tad, that's a big moment, pointe is something else and still extraordinary to fathom. Not good for your feet long term.

Both my kids did ballet. Son stayed to Y8 and did a year at Royal Ballet School regional classes. Younger daughter went through to 18 and through the LAMDA and RAD grades. She then did a Foundation year in Musical Theatre and started an MT degree this time last year, but left due to continued fallout from glandular fever sadly.

She's started a teaching job back at home this term and will be teaching dance to 7-14 tear olds at the drama school she went through.

Good luck to her and enjoy seeing all that elegant performance.

 

Something clicked with ours a few years ago. She has been doing ballet since she was 3 (now 11), initially just as one of the many hobbies/activities that you throw at kids to to see what sticks. She's always loved it but it wasn't until a few years ago when she was... scouted I guess, for a place in a show by Northern Ballet that it really took a turn for the serious. Fitting that the first professional ballet she went to when she was tiny was also by Northern, and it was mental to see her on the stage at Theatre Royal in Notts. Since then she's done a bunch of auditions, a few different associate programs and residentials, and a couple shows - another one at Theatre Royal a couple months ago, and is starting training with Northern Ballet in a few weeks.

So, at some point in the last few years the response to the little girl saying "I'm gonna be ballerina when I grow up" has sort of shifted from "aww of course you are isn't that sweet" to "well yeah, obviously".

Shame about the glandular fever - that's a bitch :/
I think ours is being pretty realistic about what a career as a dancer really is like (and how it can all go sideways with injury/illness) - so she's thinking about teaching too, but also other "Plan B"s

 

7Artisans 60mm APS-C f2.8 Macro Lens for E Mount

now for some lighting…

 

I'm a complete idiot and have decided to build my boy a catapult. Also if anyone's looking for a good quality but cheap knife Petrified Fish are putting out some nice kit, I think that one cost me less than a score.

 

Now that's a nice sharp n shiny. Just the sort of shape that I am into and the flipper is a bonus.

 

So that's why they call you The_Crapman

 

what ****?

 

That’s not a bong, that’s for my slong