Well Hi,

How are you?

I'm bored. My replica life size (and fully wearble) Tusken Raider mask is nearly finished and I've run out of books to read.

*twiddle*

Hmm.

Anyway, I've been reading a lot lately. Mostly Star Wars as usual, and I have to say how impressed I was with Death Star, a novel written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. Quite a pleasant surprise after Tatooine Ghost and The Cetus Deception... oh and Order 66. The Clone Wars has so much potential and yet they seem to keep taking on books that are so linear, predictable and overly complicated. If you've not read a SW novel before, I'd heartily recommend Death Star. It's set around the time of A New Hope and the characters should be familiar to anyone that's seen the film. It follows bit part and previously unseen characters on the battle station and details their individual lives leading up to the Death Star's destruction. I felt the end was a little hurried but it does put a bit more of a personal and empathic slant on the harsh and evil Imperial mindset most attribute to Storm Troopers et al.

What else...

Oh yeah, I bought a Boba Fett bobble head for my dashboard.



Um...

I'm selling my 400D in a few weeks as I'm getting a tax rebate and I can finally get the 5D I've always wanted. Really looking forward to that. I'll be putting it on eBay and I'll let you know when the auction starts if you're interested. I'm also going to get a Panasonic LX3, I've missed having a pocket camera very much. I borrowed one at work for a few days and they're awesome little bits of kit. 60mm at the most sadly but for close quarters candid shots etc they're great, plus they drop down to 24mm and the wide angle is impressive, as is the picture quality overall.

Mmm...

Oh yeah, Amelia was 3 the other day and Sian made a Hello Kitty cake for her. Really chuffed with how it came out, needless to say Amelia was over the moon



She had a fantastic day, lots of running around in her best dress with fairy wings, a tiara, ribbons... the works. Excuse the dirty face, this was after 3 hours of running around in the garden falling over and eating cake at the same time







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