Open Day and stuff

Well, LOADS has happened that should have been covered on here, but I will be honest with why it hasn't: I've been REALLY busy...and I kept forgetting to look at Blogger. Oh well! I'm here now so here goes, abbreviated style...

• SWICA - Dragon: Steve, Scott and myself took part in further bocking training, learnt...a bit... and performed with the wonderful team of people that are involved with the Dragon production. We performed at Belle Vue Park in Newport and Raglan Castle in ...Raglan... OK! It was great fun, even though at Raglan I looked like I supported England where I was half white and half red. Anyway, BIG thanks to Steve Fletcher and the SWICA team (including Adrian for costumes and Marcus for painting and helping us get ready) and a MASSIVE thanks to Jeeves, Dom and the other bockers for the teaching they gave us, and letting us borrow £600 worth of gear on the hopes we wouldn't destroy it. (Which we didn't ^_^ oh, and I hope Dom's arm feels better soon - not my fault ¬_¬)

• St Julian's Book Week Picnic - Epically hot day, but I survived. Note to self - NEVER tell children your name when they ask, because they don't shut up. Ever. And don't let them touch a contact ball...it equals death...with sauce on.

• Riverfront Open Day - WOO! Yes! It went ok, even though we didn't get to do the theatre show like planned (maybe next time eh??), we still got in a little impromptu demo in the entrance hall which people seemed to like. And I also think it was a good experience for everyone who came along. HUGE epically big thank you to everyone that showed up: Deanna, Tia, Izzy, Stephen, Steven, Scott, and to Tom (YAY!), Owen (double yay!) and Jay (infinity times yay!). Was so nice of you all to show up and pitch in, it meant a lot.
  

• On that note, a personal hoorah for having Tom come to circus these days, it's really nice to see a juggler around again.

• The new website is up, the galleries should be sorted by the end of the week if I have time. They're programmed, just need to sort out the images and then we're all good with that. I've been testing in IE and Firefox, so if any of you use other browsers and see any problems...let me know. Same addy as the last: www.newportcircus.tk
  

• This is turning into a massive post, appologies.

• Ooo, we also now have a Twitter. Lord knows why, I needed to test something and set up an account using the circus email, but I figured I'd keep it around since it's "hip" and see if I update it more than this!

• I will be attempting to run some things through the summer, hopefully (not like last year when I said I would then ended up in hospital >.<) I will set up a mailing list for that shortly and keep you all informed of happenings around Wales.
• Anyone that has borrowed circus gear, can you please make sure it's returned by the end of term as I need it for various workshop things in the summer.

Right, I think that's everything for now. It's probably information overload, but hey! It's been too long since I did one of these things. And i'm also kinda tired. If anyone thinks of anything they need to say, drop me an email and i'll get it posted asap. Take care all!