Weekly News Round-Up #89: 22/03/2015

Good day, my friends! This week's project has been a highly-anticipated one. As we are all mega-fans of the popular CBBC game show Raven, we thought it would be fun to create a spoof version to play ourselves. There was much planning and deciding who would be which symbol, even having to make up 3 extra symbols because we have so many players. Then came the names... Endless anagrams to choose from. Oh, and did I mention that Wicks will be playing Crow, our spin-off titular character? Afterwards we had to hand-pick the challenges that we could possibly create. Despite not having a DT and props department, there's a fair number that we can re-construct, even if they may be slightly simplified. Well, there's a summer project and a half!

During the middle of the week, Wicks managed to produce a true modern masterpiece after adorning the plastic utensils from lunch with leftover gravy, resulting in 'Gravy Fork & Gravy Knife'. Meanwhile, during a Chemistry practical, Slickens managed to singe her fringe a little with a Bunsen burner. Not to worry, thankfully very little damage was done.

In the past few weeks it has become apparent that there have been severe cuts regarding plastic cutlery at lunchtime. Wicks had quite a struggle eating her not-so-bite-size chunks of chicken without the aid of a knife. Hmm, and it's as if inflation only occurs within that canteen.

Until next week, have a good one :)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 40

"It was so dark, the only source of light was that blue LED in the distance..."
- H.W. J.C.

Story behind quote:
The light from that e-cigarette was no beacon of hope in the early hours of the day. Memories of LARPing (4 of 4)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 39

"You just put your head down and napped, then when they started doing stuff you just got up and went..."
- H.W.

Story behind quote:
On Jen's power-napping tendencies. Memories of LARPing (3 of 4)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 38

"Breakfast was sausages and hash browns in a tortilla wrap. It was crazy."
- H.W. J.C.

Story behind quote:
Memories of LARPing (2 of 4)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 37

"We'd be trying to inflate this air mattress at 2 in the morning..."
- H.W. J.C.

Story behind quote:
Memories of LARPing (1 of 4)

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 36

"I didn't think swearing could be so poetic."
- H.W.

Story behind quote:
Who'd have thought.

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 35

"Sitting down kills you."
- A.A.

Story behidn quote:
ArwaChihuahua sees the bright (?) side of not having chairs in the hall.

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 34

"The characters in TV shows doing a lit make me feel like I've done a lot of stuff."
- A.A.

Story behind quote:
We've all been there.

40 Quotes of Lent: Day 33

"Vincent van Gogh had his ear bitten off by a dog, that's where the expression 'dog-eared' comes from."
- K.W.

Story behind quote:
Untrue tales of Van Gogh.

Weekly News Round-Up #88: 15/03/2015

Hi everyone! This week has been quite an interesting one with much progress in the development of the Shtory...

After the initial chit-chat about writing prediction fictions for the Shtory, we managed to get some more information on the premise of the Shtory from Sharah. Wicks made a start on a background story for her character, whilst Jen had some crazy ideas of some sort of business analogy for the whole system of the Shtory, but finally settled on a series of short stories regarding the history of the family her character is a member of.

During the middle of the week, Sharah, ANT and Jen recall the many memorable 'chick flicks' whilst trying to think of the names of characters, such as Regina George, Rebecca Bloomwood and Luke Brandon. Meanwhile, a combination of mentioning the guy from Princess Diaries who said "I'd gladly take a bullet for you" and Sharah's impression of the pirates in Peter Pan saying "no splash" set Jen off on a 5-minute laughing fit.

Come Friday, it was Red Noce Day, and also time to assemble. Of course, this was the opportunity we have been waiting for, so we had to come as Avengers, complete with DisneyLoverMolly as the Winter Soldier. In a rather rare moment, ArwaChihuahua and Wicks, Loki and Thor repectively, were caught on Cap. Cam getting rather close. On the other hand, Wicks/Thor got hit by her own hammer, I guess none of us saw that one coming. Throughout the day we managed to spot quite a few cool costumes, such as Wadz's Deadpool, the yellow Power Ranger, a handful of Crayola crayons, a banana, Alexis as Harry Potter, Dorothy for The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and Batman. What a day it was!

Until next week, have a good one :D