was my best friend’s birthday party yesterday so we all got dressed up as matrix characters and drank booze and ate food and generally acted like loons. Couple of photos from the beginning (where we look semi-normal) and then towards the end, where I decided to Ninja-style (with a wand) kick my friend’s brothers ass and then dancing to Prodigy Mindfields (TUNE!!!)
Trinity and evil white twin
this is for jeanette 
Pieces of wood for the external frame are cut yay! I have marked out all the windows and so now just need to get my hole saws and jigsaw out to cut them out.
Then will need to measure and cut out pieces for the floors and internal walls. I tell you something ‘proper’ buildings are soooooo much more complicated than one-floor hobbit holes. I’m beginning to wonder if this project will take me a lot longer than Bag End!
VERY rough first draft of building plan!
took the twins to Bolsover Castle and Hardwick hall. They love castles so much that I joined English Heritage which lets you get into these places for free. I haven’t been to Bolsover castle since I was a kid and my mum told me the other day that I loved them when I was young so seems the boys are following in my footsteps!
Was quite interesting for me too to see the baking ovens built into the walls etc – going to put one of those in the prancing pony I think!
View from the top of the old hall
Drew up all the plans, spent a LOT of time trying to work out measurements and drew out all the shapes to cut out in MDF wood over this weekend.
then my partner Graham helped me cut out some of the pieces today – I pick up a saw, make a pathetic attempt at cutting in a straight line, and he gets all alpha male and takes the saw away and cuts the pieces – hooray!
unfortunately for me, I measured half of the pieces wrongly!!! I had to allow 6mm for the depth of the wood, so the side pieces had to be cut 6mm shorter. I’m sat there subtracting 6 from all the sides, and I subtracted CENTIMETRES not millimetres DUHHHHHH
so need to get some more wood on Tuesday because all the sides are too small. Anyone who knows me will not be surprised – numbers are NOT my strong point.
thanks to a lady called Sylvia who posted comment on my main blog, I have found out about The Eowyn Challenge
This is a challenge where you follow in the mighty (but small) steps of the Hobbits on their way from Hobbiton to Rivendell and beyond.
You go for walks and record how far you go (with a pedometer or map etc) and you can enter it into the website and it tracks where you are in Middle Earth!!
I am soo excited about this – I have been dreaming about the Hobbits’ journeys and adventures for nearly 20 years and I can now ‘ACTUALLY’ go with them!!!
Ok I don’t know exactly when I am going to find the time to walk 458 miles, but I quite often take my twins and dogs to Sherwood forest, Castles in the area, parks etc so I will record how far we walk and plot it out on the Middle Earth Atlas.
soooooooo exciting!
