April

What the hell happened to April showers?! Who's ever heard of April Skin-Blistering-Sunshine?!

It's wonderful, of course, except that I reckon it's fairly safe to bet money on the fact that come July we'll drowning in all the rainwater that didn't happen this month. My brother now refers to the summer months as 'monsoon season', without a trace of irony.

So we've got that to look forward to. Meanwhile, we have been making the most of the weather. Me and my brothers and my dad had a barbecue yesterday evening. I mean sure, we all wore hoodies and such, and the disposable barbecue dad bought from Sainsbury's was as about as effective as using a hairdryer to combat a flood (it was from their best buy range or whatever they do as well) and thus we transferred to meat onto the cooker (so not strictly speaking a barbecue then, but we ate it outside), but if it was any other time of year, the mere consideration of the thought of a barbecue, in the evening no less, would have got you sectioned.

I also visited my mum in Somerset for a week in Easter. Somerset has an odd habit of calling all its towns 'cities'. Wells for example, where they filmed Hot Fuzz (which makes it infinitely cooler than anywhere), is the second smallest city in the world and is about the size of a high street. Glastonbury doesn't seem to be much bigger. I didn't visit long enough to deliver a proper verdict, but it is small. And interesting. Lots of shops with the word 'magick' on them.

Mind you, while enjoyable the stay in Somerset wasn't overly helpful. I still haven't fully learnt my script for Blackout. It's being performed on May 17. I did get plenty of photo's of trees for my photography project though. The eight hour exam I completed on Thursday this week, now I have to finish my final evaluation and attend my lessons 'till study leave in May and I'm done. I'll have finished all but two of my exams by then anyway, since most of my subjects are practical. Speaking of which, art work is impending.