What I did in April 2019

[squirmelia]

I visited the Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery and some some mirrors by Anish Kapoor and wandered around Walpole Park.

I attached velcro shapes to myself at Now Play This, played a fruit machine that generated sentences, sang karaoke with the lyrics changed to be words that sounded alike, bumped into fluffymormegil and walked around a labyrinth carrying a flag, played a game that involved going to different rooms in Somerset House, saw people playing collaborative Tetris and wandered around a forest as a deer.

I sat on a carpet and read books by Russell Hoban at The Mouse and his Child exhibition at the Now Gallery.

I ate cake with colleagues at the Delauney, one evening.

I went on a Tube Walk from South Quay station to Crossharbour, and we walked past the Traffic Light Tree and around Canary Wharf and through St John's Park.

I saw many bluebells and wandered through woods and the birds sang and butterflies fluttered past and the sun shone and I wandered around the remains of Lesnes Abbey, and saw distant windmills and ate pistachio ice-cream and did an Ingress banner.

I visited Dorking and the South Street Caves with glyn, looked at the stepping stones and did the Harley Davidson banner.

I visited 2 Willow Road, Erno Goldfinger's house, ate bacio ice-cream. Wandered through Hampstead Heath and surrounds and met numerous trees, using an app, and got them to text me poetry. I smelt some gorse, saw a jay, butterflies fluttering past, and a Greater Rhea. I went swimming in the Ladies' Pond and swum with some Canadian Geese and Mandarin ducks and beside some bluebells.

One day, I ate a free tarte flambe, watched people through one way mirror and wore a unicorn head.

I visited Folkestone with my mum and paddled in the sea, ate gypsy tart ice-cream and wandered on the beach.

I went to the Brick Bar with deathboy and ate a brick shaped burger, dressed up as a Lego brick, made a lemming out of Lego, saw a Lego waterfall, drank a Lego cocktail.

I walked on the moon! Well, in VR, at Lunatick by Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan. I had dinner with doseybat after that and ate Japanese food.

I went to Dorkbot and listened to talks on Longplayer, and making music with code, and saw lots of people I knew and that was great.

I escaped from an abandoned tube station, at the Mission Breakout escape room. I got to wear a hard hat and high vis and was a paranormal investigator. I ate queso ice-cream and calamansi ice-cream at Mamasons.

I saw Banksy's new work at Marble Arch, next to where Extinction Rebellion were camped.

Ingress:

A First Saturday in Kingston, which also coincided with celebrations for the phone boxes (Out of Order sculpture). Some running around and I did the Footslog banner, and then a few weeks later, the Kingston First Saturday banner.

I happened to be in Putney doing the Sea Turtles banner when the boat race began, so I stopped a while and watched.

I wandered around Greenwich a few times, attempting the Millennium Dome Peninsula.

Comments

[miss_newham]

Dorking has caves??

Did you ever find the portal in the Millennium Dome?

[squirmelia]

They are actually tunnels: https://dorkingmuseum.org.uk/south-street-caves/

I didn't manage to get to the portal in the Millennium Dome, but the author changed the mission to contain another portal that could reach! So I finished in the end, after the third day of going to the Dome!

[miss_newham]

Flippin' heck!

[doseybat]

totally love that photo!