Victoria Day!

Hip hip - hooray! Hip hip - hooray! Hip hip - hooray!

I wish I knew the words to "God Save the Queen" so I could have sung it today. But alas, I had to settle for doffing my hat and cheering. In fancy dress. At a heritage village. It was a bit weird, as people took pictures of us (and asked us if we worked there) and that always makes me embarrassed.

It was cool though, cause I'd never been to the place before, even though it's close by and I've often walked around in the area. But I went, and it was awesome, and there were lots of houses and a blacksmith and bowls with potatoes and log cabins and a giant cake with a Union Jack on it and an outhouse and an old radio station and  lots of other stuff too! And I frowned at the only two young people costumed volunteers (they had little grasp of period appropriate costume). However, there was an appearance by Queen Victoria herself, being driven about in 1924 Model-T, so I suppose that opens the door to all sorts of anachronism.

This really has nothing to do with anything, except it's art based on a short film called The Anachronism.  It's pretty cool, we almost went to the opening (they were having the giant squid ship on display!) but the whole shindig was in one of the dodgiest areas of the city, at night. Linked to the Tumblr page, iffen you're interested.

She was escorted by Mounties and a piper and then a brass band! They played ABBA, Elvis, and...Barry Manilow after her speech. And there were Red Hat Ladies and lady Morris dancers! I think when I get old I'm gonna be a Red Hat Lady and drink tea and be a lady-in-waiting to the Queen on Victoria Day. Yep. That sounds about right to me :)

Hat by milliner Sally Faith Steinmann of Maggie Mae Designs.
Linked to her website.

Lots of good times were had, and then we were ready to go! And the bus disappeared, as they so often do around here (as in you're at the stop ten minutes early, and there are already people waiting who have probably been there an additional ten minutes prior, so you know it hasn't already come, and then it just never arrives.) so we had to wait for over half an hour. Without foooooood. Cause by then we were really hungry.

And then we made pasta with pesto and alfredo sauce when we got home and ate the whole thing!

Then watched the last Doctor Who episode! Ooh la la!

Richard E. Grant! And then...John Hurt?! That was weird. Very much so. But a pretty decent episode all in all!

The cake was like this! But waaaaaaaayyy bigger!

So I leave thee with a picture of a cake, and bid thee adieu! 

Also

I really want to see Doctor Who tonight. I think I'm one of the few that don't just watch it all in one go online, or whatever it is that people use technology for. But I gotta go to work, so I have let it be known that I expect someone to PVR it for me to watch tomorrow...

And play more Rockband 3! (tomorrow, after watching said episode)

Yesterday me and the BF made a bunch of our friends as Rockband characters (weirdly enough we were all in a band in real life, in the dark ages when we were 16) and holy poops it was uncanny! Most of us just looked good, but I swear, one of the EA guys working on the game must have been the doppelganger of our pal -- all his weird facial expressions and movements were spot on. Even when you couldn't see his face in the cutscene when they're waving on the tour bus! We had a pretty fun time switching his hairstyles too, cause it looked exactly like him but with a mohawk or anime hair...

Tom Baker's Scarf

I started this in October, thinking I could do it by Christmas. Boom, November. Finals finals everywhere, and all the papers are due. So it ended up being more of a Valentine's Day present.

Longer than my bed unblocked, and longer than my entire room after blocking. I actually had to lay out one end inside my closet! Aiaiai. Much hassle. But worth it! Here's a link to the pattern, and the website itself has a handy list of colour matched yarns available online (I went with the KnitPicks stuff, came to about $45 after shipping and tax)

http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/pdf/fullworsted.pdf