Mark Andrew Webber

life is going good!!
amazing weather though i’ve been inside carving the whole time
going to go to falmouth this week at some point, for a much needed trip
SCUBA DIVING might be on the cards!! wahooo
party times might be on the cards!!!
my arthritis in my right elbow/complete right hand is, not faring so well, having an early night tonight, give it a rest. Though this is normal when i go on these crazy carving episodes, bleh!!!..
listening to “A short history of nearly everything”

I love the fact that the guy wrote the book, because he admitted to not knowing a great deal about science, so set about a three year research project to find out about “Nearly everything” and sets in out in a clear, and humorous manner. plus i love the visual explanations, for things such as how old the human race is thought to be, to that of the earth… he says something like:

stretch out your arms to the side, from tip of right hand to the tip of left hand, is how old the earth is, now clip off a fingernail, and that is how old the human race is in relation to the age of the earth. it a great book, with many fun visual things about everything, from geology, biology, cosmology, physics, just everything!. so many historical figures that are not included in our histories, but that shout be accredited with so much.. so a great read and i recommend, the book to anyone, even if they do think they know “a lot about science”

well bed for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched a day go by.

made a gif..

YES The template is done, Ready for Transfer to the linoleum!! i am still yet to sand the linoleum, but i’m getting the sand paper tomorrow, then BAM! it will be ready for transfer!!! i’m thinking transfer time to be about 2 days, pending on how many hours i can spend on it them days!. 

I look a little silly in the photo below! HA it still has the outcome i wanted, which was to show the scale of the print!. the room kind of did that, but i figured i was a better scale point, anyway i slipped! as the photo was taken on timer!! wahooo.

pretty excited to have to done to this stage, its been, about 2 years since i went to paris, and first invisioned the map, so its here!! after about 6 months of actual work, on and off… 

i’m not sure how long the carving will take!, but its looking like about 1-2 months, it will all pend on when i start my part time job!, (yup need to earn money some how) if i could dedicate every waking moment to this i would, but alas, my joints i have to accept cant take that, so i will have to force myself out, and if i have not started work, i have to at least carry on with the swimming. 

so yea, i just want it done, and printed!!! going to be a crazy mission! one good side to this, is i will most likely listen to about 10 full audio books!. any good series out there i should try!,, i’m thinking the terry pratchet books! hmmm…  i’m going to relax for the rest of the day! and finish my scarf off! hope to anyway! wahooo.

so i have been having some luck this weekend just gone, its not carried on much but then, i have not been out and about making anything happen.

This luck was that on friday i played the euromillions, which i never do much, and won £13.86,,,, which was then enough that it payed for the travel to London on saturday, to see a friend. i met him at London bridge station, and just as we left the station i found a set of four passport photos!! wahoo so this would add to my current collection….

We walked around loads of London, went to china town, had some lunch, walked some more, and decided to go down by the river and walk along the sand, finding lots of things to take pictures of. I then found a dirty round metal thing, that looked interesting, it looked to me like it could be some kind of car part valve, but interesting all the same, so i kept it….. left it in boiling water when i got home, as it had been in the River.. Bleh, and was not clean at all…. soo out of interesting to see what i could find out about it. The next day i typed in the internet the writing it had on it. Turns out its a white Gold, worth $1000 so about £650 or so.. which is amazing… going to be going to a jewlers asap, to see if i can make at least a few hundred bucks!!!

This is cool as it might mean i travel ideas might actually happen!. I still have no job so was doubting i would be able to go.

Paris map is tough going at the moment, i worked on it for 11 hours straight yesturday, and thats just prepping the pencil lines to get it all reading and set for transfer, i’ve covered about 30-40% thus far so still have a lot to do, it hardly fits it my studio, i just laugh at myself every time i realise what i’m doing, its sooooooo much work its insane. this is easily a months work even if i work solid 7 days a week, which i will not be able to do this time due to having to do other things!! ha!…

bleh thats all really nothing much of interest to report to the world.
i hope the luck carries on, ha all my money worries to be taken care of!! ah like magic!! BAM!

This Was amazing!! from the Nordic Bakery in London!!!
OMFG!!!

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