Bed Slats

 I've never hoovered between my bed slats before, and the evidence of that was plain to see. To think we've been sleeping underneath a whole family of dust bunnies, but not I just think about what a successful deep clean we did of our bedroom as the atmosphere itself feels much better. The remainder of the Sunday was spent at one of Rebecca's friends house playing games and eating jelly. Basically a Famous Five story on a rainy day... Except there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

Coronation Day

We tuned in briefly to watch the new king be crowned. The heart of the ceremony was actually quite interesting, seeing all the relics being passed around and learning a bit about the order of business, the history behind a lot of it is a lot more sacred than I was expecting.

But as soon as the crown was on my interest waned, I turned to my computer and hopped into a good, classic game session with Mark and Dan whom I haven't been together with in a little while now. Always nice to catch up with them and hear how they're getting on. I learnt that I'm rubbish at virtual golf and that Dan is still a master of geometry. As far as I'm concerned, the only real kings are my chums.

Return of Fiver Friday

 Earlier on in the week I had very little to be getting on with, today though I was properly strapped for time as the work kept piling on. Most importantly was my Fiver Friday duties of course, we took it up a notch this time round as I figured out a way for the crew to scan a QR code to do some bank transfers. Our prize draw was significantly bigger as a result and the winner was chuffed as chips. It's a fair amount of effort on my part arranging it all each week (we even printed out a giant novelty check for the winner) but it really is a ton of fun. Shortly afterwards I was back to script amends and logistics. I did an unprecedented amount of printing at the end of the day to set up my co-worker who I'm briefly handing over to for Monday. I sayed back a little later which made me a little late for my regular board game night. Rebecca tagged along and I ended up playing brand new games and drinking homemade rums - a few of which were on the house. As Fridays go, this was a jolly good one.

Kricked Neck

 Left work yesterday with a noticable twinge in my neck. I powered through the evening, telling myself it'll all be better in the morning. Well 5:20am arrived and my neck was the opposite of 'better'. Driving in I learnt that the human nervous system is a sophisticated and connected superhighway, at least that's what I told myself everytime I changed gear to suffer another nasty twinge. I walked into my truck with my neck on a slant. The Associate Producer laughed saying I looked like something out of The Adams Family. At that point I knew I needed to see our on site medic. They took a look over me and massaged some balm into my neck, but mentioned that time was the greatest healer. I just didn't want to have a kricked neck for our work drinks tonight. It was someone's leaving drinks and I wanted to make sure Production was representing well. Maybe a little too well as our camera team plyed me with drinks and held me hostage until way past my bedtime. Still lovely to see our crew as human being and not solely as work drones.

Base Street Party

Our Unit Base is a lively place. In preparation for the upcoming Coronation the costume and makeup team wrapped bunting and put flags up all over the trucks. Then for lunch our AD team put a banquet table up for them to eat lunch at, good thing the sun was out in full force because our mealtime ended up as a bit of a street party. For my hour long break I actually walked away from my desk and sat down with my team on the grass. Really civilized and all round pleasant. I keep thinking what a lovely crew we have and moments like that only cement my sentiments.

Japanese Iced Coffee

I discovered a flask I own is incredibly good to retaining near zero degree temperatures - perfect for bringing ice into work basically! I headed out to our nearby bakery to be their first customer of the day (literally, they hadn't quite finished setting up when I got there), bought some fancy coffee beans and used them to make a Japanese style iced coffee. Safe to say I made some friends with that one. Otherwise I was mostly on my side of the truck by myself, tackling my to-do list without interruption. More productive day, but it did feel a bit socially bland.

Back in Front of Camera

Deep down, everytime I get into work I low-key want to be in a scene we shoot. Well my prayers were answered as a scene get rejigged and a whole fake camera crew were required to populate a scene. So I went through costume and makeup and emerged reborn and ready to step in front of camera. My boss also got roped in but he was somehow persuaded to shave off all his facial hair minus his moustache... I bet he had some explaining to do to his partner after work. It was a lot of fun though, the crew love it too which is a double whammy. In fact, everyone was in a tremendously good mood today, I'll chalk it up to the unseasonably warm weather that gave us a sample of the Summer that's just around the corner.