Once Upon a Time....

Saturday evening saw a wonderful theme for Steelhead's formal dance: Fairytales. In a bit of a creative mood I had decided to create my costume for the evening, partly in reaction to the abundance of "cute" fairies that I see around, and partly because I have always been impressed by Mr. Froud's artworks.

The costume was a Redcap. Not a nastier cousin of David-the-gnome as some people have suggested. Mr Goodliffe seemed very much taken with my designs and asked if I was planning on selling him. I honestly hadn't thought about it but I decided to make a gift of the costume to him anyway.


Myself and a rather elfin Miss McAllister dance away.

A rather spectacular collection of costumes was assembled for the night. Some truly amazing displays.


Mr. Goodliffe as the Tin Man


Miss Addison as a Fairytale Princess


And Finn as her Frog Prince


Miss Kiralette's Tinkerbell


Darien's draconic form


And his slightly more humanoid one


Fuzz as the Big Bad Wolf


Miss Elaine as a bunny - just in time for Easter


Miss JeZeBeLe


Lunar as the Fairy OMGodmother


Miss Lumina's pirate


Mr. Priestly's as Puss in Boots


DJ Tensai rocks da house!


Miss Xiandria, who I discovered is actually Steelhead's Mayor


And Miss Emilly's cutesy fairy

Sadly I was called away on urgent business, so I wasn't able to stay for the full night. I believe Miss Xiandria and Finn won the best costume awards for the night.


Upon my return Miss Elda contacted me and asked if I had seen the new Town Hall at New Babbage (or Babbage Square. I can never remember whether that's it's official title or not). I said that I hadn't and we went over for a look. As we were coming out of the basement we noticed what I first thought was another building in New Babbage. It turned out to be Mr. Cosmos working the kinks out of a rather amazing mechanical suit.


To give you an indication of scale, that's myself and Miss Elda at the bottom of the picture.

I attempted to broadcast the image to Miss Emilly, who I thought would appreciate it, but there seemed to be interferance over the aether. When you can't take the mountain to Mohammed...

Miss Emilly confessed that she had never seen New Babbage so we began to show her some of the sights when we stumbled across a small box, which unsurprisingly I hadn't noticed before. This brought looks of bewilderment from Miss Elda and what sounded like squees from Miss Emilly.


Mr Sputnik's Etheric Travel Cabinet.

While I know Mr. Sputnik I have never had the pleasure of visiting his amazing craft. So I stuck my head through the door and sang out "Hullo! Any one home?"

Indeed he was.


The control room on board.

It was a most impressive display and has inspired me to do some decorating of the Eyrie.


Soon we bade our goodbyes and headed home.

A fabulous day I think

Odds, sods, kilts & dancing

This week has seen some emotions run high. The proposed in invasion of Neualtenburg has seen some hand-wringing in places, poor choices of words have caused me offence in others, and one pompous individual seems to have burnt his bridges to the "destroyed vision" of Caledon. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.


The Highland regimental uniform was finished. I've already had requests for version for the ladies. I shall see what can be done.


I've also largely completed a redcap AV (inspired by Brian Froud's illustration). This started out as a whim and will come in handy for the fairytale theme of next week's Steelhead formal.

Earlier this week Miss Orr, Miss McAllister and myself went in search of a weapons manufacturer that I had mentioned. Both ladies availed themselves of the free assasins dagger that was on offer. I'm not sure what that says about the types of ladies whos company I keep.


Edward's new spear


Miss Orr's pale fey.


I also pre-empted the invasion plans of Neualtenburg by arriving and planting the Caledon flag next to the main square. It stood for three days before it was removed.

Friday night's dance at Steelhead was an "Under L$100" though sadly I didn't take any photos. Though for some people that may be a good thing :-)


A late night dip in the Steelhead lake with Miss Kelley was rather fun though. Especially watching her after she discovered the nearby catnip bush!

This evening's dance for Steelhead was an "International" theme. Some very fine outfits


Tensai the super bunny


Lady Bardhaven and Mr Abel


Lumina looking very nice


Mr Scaggs in the throes of musical abandon


Her Grace of Loch Avie and Mr O'Toole


Qlippothic Projects sets off the fire alarms again


Lastly while helping to set up for the Caledon ghetto quarter party on the docks, someone mentioned that people might fall into the harbour. I invited Chester to make them think twice about going for a swim.