Surely Seurat....

I had a few days work on a show for the Fringe, and got to do lots of nice painty things!!!These panels are reversable so my work will be on both sides...
(a wee bit of Rachel's jelly fish in the background)

One of the girls had already started working on this bigger painting when I got there but as we were running out of time, I jumped in to finish it.

Before...

After...

I still felt there was more work I could have done to it but as time was running out I had to pick certain areas to focus on and get them to the best I could....

House Climbing and Ankle Hanging....

My circus group had a wee BBQ at our friend Marta's house over the weekend.
Her and her husband are acutally in the process of designing/building their own house at the moment and even the Grand Designs team have been out following it. They've got as far as the foundations and have built the beam structure of the house.
So of course we trapeze ladies couldn't resist having a wee climb!

And a wee bit of that internet phenomenon planking (even though its not a real plank!).... Two of the girls Lauren and Claire did a little bit of fire poi for us. I've tried normal poi and found it hard enough to keep them under control, never mind adding fie into the equation!

As if that wasn't enough fun for one weekend, we did a special doubles trapeze class on the Saturday! Doing various postions and hanging by my ankles- alot of fun!! In most partner work there are two roles- the base (usually the one holding the weight), and the flyer ( the one that hangs). As I'm small, its easier for me to do the flying, but I like to try and base when I can. Some base action..... (Squeeze those abs!!)

Tall ships and circus sailors...

It was the Tall Sips races in Greenock this weekend. I remeber going to see them years ago and I went on a couple of them and had a walk about. They're really cool looking ships!

However one of my main reasons for going was that my circus buddies were perfoming! I was actually suppose to be in this show but as I was going up north I couldn't make the rehearsals, I still went along for support though!

And of course, I couldn't resist having a go too....

A wee Highland fling....

I went up north to Lochinver for a wee weeks holiday to visit some family friends. Its a little seaside village and takes about 6 hours to drive from Glasgow. Very remote but lovely scenery. I'm afraid this post is a bit of a picture bomb.

The dugs not too sure where they were going.....
THE BEACH!!!!

We went a walk upto to Stoer Lighthouse, and on route got caught in traffic (sheep traffic that is....)

WATCH OUT FOR TOADS (apparently...)

So my dad is really big on hillwalking and he likes to go up north as thats where all the mountains are. As there not much else to do around there, I decided to join him on a climb. So heres my first mountain experience....

The view from far away...

Thats our intended destination...

The view from the bottom (which we had to walk about an hour and a half to get to!)

On the ridge...

The view from the top!!!!!

I MADE IT!

Unfortunately it was sooooo windy at the tops that as soon as we got there, we had to come back down again, grasping onto any rock we saw as we descended!

We went out for dinner, and my mum had langustines (?). Although I'm vegetarian, I couldn't help but play with them!

A good week and a nice wee bit of relaxing time off. But now, back to the job hunt.....