Who has a Key?

Was woken up by the sound of a key turning in the lock. It dawned on me that I went to bed alone in the house and that no-one else, bar Mum and Dad back in Newbury, should have the key to the house in Bournemouth. Bewildered I woke up straight away and remembered that the builders were finishing the job today. This put me in a situation where people who think irrationally before their first cup of coffee struggle: How was I to make my presence noted? At first I thought of just strolling up and saying hello but after I left my room I spotted they left the front door wide open so I might have looked like someone who just waltzed in off the street. Sheepishly, I stood outside and rung the doorbell to announce myself. In hindsight, I made that a lot more unecessary than needed.

Otherwise I cracked on with the edit with Philpott. I captured and logged all my audio before going in so I really hit the ground running, churning out songs on request and prepped a handful of interview testimonials. We really ploughed through it today as well, getting well over half of it done. And it looks good! It looks really good actually, I'll certainly put up a link to it here when I'm done just to show it off because we are both becomming more and more pleased with how it is shaping up.

7 Thrones

When Louis told me that season 4 of Game of Thrones was strong I didn't quite know what to make of that. Now I understand his hype completely. After landing back in Bournemouth for our edit I found myself with nothing to do to fill up my evening aside from the 6 episodes of Thrones I brought with me. I intended them to last me until Saturday when in reality I just watched all of them tonight. While I feel a touch guilty about using up all of my entertainment material for my free time, I'm still pretty impressed with how well the series held my attention! To make matters worse, I saw one episode before leaving for Bournemouth, pushing it to 7 episodes today. Not long now til I'm up to speed with the rest of the world.

Smashing

Louis and I have been training up a little in order to take the prize position at our Smash Bros tournament. Playing online with strangers is always a fun and interesting experience, recently we have been losing a fair bit but today we really destroyed our opposition this evening which gives us high hopes in the doubles category. Otherwise I have been waiting out my time until heading back to Bournemouth to start editing the music festival I recorded on Saturday. We have a big schedule planned for us and it'll almost be like a really short full-time job. Getting in early and leaving late each night until we get the job done.

Newbury Carnival 2015

Showed my chain-mailed face at the Newbury Carnival today. I 'trotted' along side as a knight of one of the past kings who was signing the Magna Carta, Louis also joined in as Robin Hood's bard and we had a jolly old time marching along the streets of Newbury. Although, I seemed to have missed a memo as everyone on our float was signing this dreadful 'Robin Hood' song which I didn't know the words for. It took them at least 20 times before I realised what was actually being sung, at that point, we past all the crowds so I figured the performance wasn't really lacking one extra voice singing a song.

Big Mix

Suited up into my sound gear to cover a live music event down by the beach. 'Big Mix' was the name of the gig and it had a lot of younger performers along with several older groups but all of it sounded excellent. James and I were called in to make a promo video for the event so we recorded as much as we humanly could and now we feel like we can make something really awesome with the footage.

Perk of the job was this nice handwritten lanyard, made me feel very profesh, except I was the sound guy rather than the camera op, but it was still cool.

Ducks and Coffee

Rebecca's last day in Newbury was commemorated with a nice cuppa tea next to our canal. We sat down alongside the ducks and pigeons and watched them fight over scraps from the previous cafe patrons. Funnily enough, the woman who served us at the pub the other day made an appearance at this cafe, as our server again. Small town.

Applied to a bunch of work experience places this afternoon to be a general runner so I'm looking forward to hearing back from a few of those companies in the coming weeks. Otherwise I'm back down to Bournemouth tomorrow for a sound recording job, I'm packing up my bags again a lot sooner than I expected.

Chasing the Sun

And I thought it was hot yesterday. By the time it got to midday Rebecca and I couldn't take the heat one bit. My room felt like a space station in direct orbit of the sun so we have just been trying to drink loads and keep cool. Rebecca found a spot in the hammock before I could and claimed it as her territory. Later on we went for a walk up to Donnington Castle to see the sun setting. As it turned out, this was more difficult than anticipated as the sun was behind a lot of trees by the castle so we infiltrated a golf course and sat down by the 18th hole to get a good sunset spot. We then got a bit lost on the way home as we went out of our way to not get spotted by other golfers as there were big 'No Footpath' signs littered everywhere. We got out without being seen and even took a victory golf ball home with us for the memories.