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Posted: 5th Jul 2005
afternoon mags, here have some more huggery from me...
there will be more hugs n stuff from me at falmouth and i bet i can put a smile on your face at least once.

That little bisexual boy you were talking about, his name is mech and he comes from staffordshire!

PS when thinking of ways to kill yourself of a morning, make sure you find an original way of doing please, when i do it i'm gonna take loads of acid and throw myself into a pit of hungry crocodiles. think of ways of killing yourself like that and what the fu.., you actually realise things arent that bad.

O.B.E.S.E. Official Potato man.

Remeber kids.... Its all fun and games until someone loses a bol**ck!

Posted: 6th Jul 2005
man i love coming here at ramdom times throught the year.......

its like reading a really good book - but about someone i know

anyways back to my point of coming here to say.........

i was going round the place that is sfs the other day and i came across this picture of you........... dude it scared me to be honest - you look like a tekkan character or summit......... bit wide eyed on the sat night of falmouth 2 i rekon

see for yourself:

anyhow another point being.............. actually i should leave that for PM

"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."

Posted: 6th Jul 2005
hahaha

heh

I look like kazuya!

Where's the PM then?

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 6th Jul 2005
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Geologists do it in the dirt................

Posted: 6th Jul 2005
I hope your ready for us Mags, with the good tea

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian

Posted: 6th Jul 2005
Hey Fluffy lady!

The tea is in place William old son, but I've moved house, so I suggest you give me a tinkle when you get here.

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
Pardon?
You want him to tinkle on you?


Thats not my cup of tea, but if it does it for you, then fair enough.....

Posted: 7th Jul 2005

Gayle.....!

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
if he tinkles enough he can float your boat........um ok I'll walk away now.........

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
You guys are twisted. And not in a good way.

Ok. I started writing this on Monday, but the PC crashed at Tamsyn's, so I lost it all. Buggery. Oh well. Here is the abbreviated version:

Friday 1st July 2005

Woke up about midday and wandered up to the new house to pay my first months rent and get the keys. Got a pasty from Spar (now conveniently 50 metres away from my front door) and walked back to Melvill Cresc. Lay about and watched Spaced for a bit then carried my futon and armchair up to the new place. The hallway was already filling up with boxes and black bin bags as my other 5 house mates (and the 2 "other halves") moved all their stuff in.

About 5ish Brad came down with the car and helped me move everything. We were done by about 10ish. He's a good lad.

We went out to Porthtowan in the evening and had a burn by the Blue Bar. Brad was a bit tired by this point, so we didn't stay long.

Saturday 2nd July

Spent the day unpacking, and trying desperately to fit everything in to my shoe box sized room. I still haven't managed it and it's almost a week later as I write this. I need shelves...

In the evening we went to the Moor to spin. Had a good long burn, and had several crowds of people watch us. Whilst freestyling with my staff I managed to give myself a nice fat 3 inch burn on my left shoulder. Only 2nd degree, but it canes. Met a cool South African guy called DiDi who spins fire. I recommended he get on HoP. Who knows, maybe he's here already.

Went home, washed carefully in the shower, and went to bed.

Sunday 3rd July

Got up and lounged about. We have Sky digital tv in our new house, and whilst I'm not the biggest fan of the idiot box, it's nice to have BBC Parliament. And the Poker channel.

Went to the beach in the afternoon. My burn was healing ok, but like a muppet I span staff without a top on (it was a nice day, alright?) and the rubber of my grip neatly tore the top of the burn off the very first time I rolled it across my shoulders. Ow. Luckily the nice people at the RNLI gave me a bandage to put on it, but I wasn't really feeling like spinning much after that, so i went home and lazed about for the rest of the day.

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 11th Jul 2005
Hope its healed by falmouth.



can't wait

Getting to the other side

Posted: 11th Jul 2005
Does this mean you no longer live in the house with the smurf blue and tangerine living room? Gayle will be upset since it took her so damn long and so much herbage to work out that it was smurf blue

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!

Posted: 11th Jul 2005
no...It was sonic the hedgehog blue.

Gayle.....!

Posted: 11th Jul 2005
oh yeah thats right.... silly me! How could I mix them up

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!

Posted: 11th Jul 2005
Have you moved house mags?? I was hoping we could all turn up there after the train with tea waiting

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian

Posted: 12th Jul 2005
Try it Will. See how long you can get to stay drinking tea before the new people living there realise they don't know you and throw you out This is your mission should you choose to accept it........ this message will self distruct in 30 seconds...... tick.......tick......tick...

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!

Posted: 12th Jul 2005
Hey Magnus, like the sad-goth-child HoP nickname?

Hehe, tis Joss :-)

God home is boring, just got an email from Kelly all about our next gig tho, now all excited and furiously sketching crap design after crap design for body paint.

TBH, feel kind of stalker-ish reading all this. So weird to read about things I was there for, but in the past-tense from another POV. Hmm.

Any more wood stuff need organising?

Cu on the 15th.

They are guides. They are teachers. They are like Yoda, only smaller and on strings.

--Meenik on poi

Posted: 16th Jul 2005
Joss, it's not a sad goth child nickname, it's your name. Live with it.

Yes, it's true, i now live in a house with a proper colour scheme (nicotine white) fit for a student dwelling. It's about half way between Penmere station and Fal Town station, but to be honest , Will and others, you don't wanna be going there on Thursday, as I won't be there. Although it will take a while, I will now explain why:

Monday 4th July

Went to Lanson to look after the kids. Tamsyn was there, but working during the days, and as Izzy was in school, i spent my days hanging out with Lady Rhe. Went to the castle in the evening for a burn with my friends Ed and Emily (mysticred on HoP) and drank some beer.

Tuesday 5th July

More of the same. Watched some bad kids tv and played some games with Rhe. Stayed in in the evening and played on the PC while Tamsyn sat in her room playing PS2.

Wednesday 6th July

Looked after Rhe, got Iz from school then got a lift back to the train with Tamsyn. Went to Jake's with Rich, Sam, Sam's friend Kate and Yanni. It was open mic, so I played an Elliott Smith song, (A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free), then a Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover and the obligatory rendition of I Will Survive. Free pint ahoy! Went home and watched Poker Channel til bedtime.

Thursday 7th July

Can't remember. Watched the news a lot. Rang people in London. Didn't do much in the afternoon. Probably involved a beach.

Friday 8th July

Blah blah. Beach. In the evening, we'd been asked by the new manager of the Gyllyngvase Beach Cafe to come and spin for a wedding reception they were holding. So we did. In addition to nearly slicing the end of my little toe off with the end of my stick, we put on a pretty good show, and got paid in 1 case (24 bottles) of Corona, and two limes. Went home and drank beer.

Saturday 9th July

Got up, went into town and bought paraffin. Trago Mills, the store with the cheapest fuel (£2.30 for 4 litres) doesn't stock it over the summer, so I had pay about a quid a litre! Savagery.

Joss, Brad and I left the house about 7ish, heading for the Eden Project. A charity evening was being held (a posh one, £1000 per ticket!) for a young girl who'd had to have both her legs amputated. She had asked us (through Brad) to come and perform, but unfortunately hadn't cleared it properly with the Eden site management. Consequently we were placed waaaay out of the way of the audience, and basically, performed for the benefit of one of the Eden ladies, who was sat with us guarding the fire extinguisher. We got fully bodypainted too, all three of us, in a disabled toilet. All fun really.

Feeling a little anti-climactic, we got back in the car and rolled a joint. Got a phone call from our friend Kelly asking if we'd go and spin at a wedding reception she'd been waitressing for near Perranporth. We sped west, and got to the reception (in a field behind a pub called the Smuggler's Den) just as the fireworks display was ending. We pretty much got out of the car burning, and proceeded to spin for about 2 and a half hours. The lady who was hosting the party booked us for a paid gig the following friday, and paid us for our endeavours with a case of (you guessed it) Corona. And two limes.

As we were leaving the reception, having spun fire outside, and flags and poi inside, along with the obligatory juggling/cj routines, some drunk guy said,

"Are you guys going to the party in Newquay?"

"Which party?" said we...

We got to the party (on Pentire beach, in Newquay) about half 1, and set up to start burning. We were still fully painted up, and we put on a show for the waiting crowd while the DJ got set up. The party was in a little quarry-like basin on a point overlooking the beach, a wide expanse of perfectly smooth white sand. We met some of the Newquay spinners, including a girl (I think her name was Amy - not too sure) who gives poi lessons on Fistral beach.

About 4ish the sun was coming up, and as we still had to face the drive back to Fal, we departed, leaving the happy crowd merrily bopping away.

Sunday 10th July

Got home, Brad passed out almost straight away. Joss and I watched the mornings news and almost as soon as the weatherman had said, at 7am, "The temperature right now is 18 degrees, set to rise to nearly 30 by 10am", we were heading for a deserted Gylly beach. Who needs sleep anyway?

Jumped into the sub-zero waters to shift the last bits of bodypaint, then collapsed in a heap and chain smoked spliffs. Joss left about 11ish, he had to get a train home for the week, and I lazed about some more til about 1ish, when I went up to sit on the balcony of the beach cafe to drink beer. After repeated dunks in the slightly-warmer sea to keep myself awake, I finally went home about 5 and passed out.

More in a minute, this post is a bit long...

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 16th Jul 2005
Monday 11th July

Got up earlyish and lay about watching TV til it was time to get the train to Lanson for kid-duty. Read Private Eye on the way up, and chortled to myself. Fed the kids and put them to bed, then went to castle with my friend Thom, who I hadn't seen in a good few months. Drank a couple of beers and smoked some, then went back to Tamsyn's and slept.

Tuesday 12th July

Spent the day playing Buckaroo with Rhe, then in the evening went down to the castle with Ed and Emily and span Ed's glo poi around. They will both be at Fal4, so keep your eyes peeled. About midnight I returned to Tamsyn's, played on the computer for a bit and went to bed.

Wednesday 13th July

Got up, played with Rhe, picked Izzy up, drove back to the station and returned to Fal. Was thinking about going to Jakes to play my new song, but instead went down to The Shed (a bar) for the birthday of one of Brad's friends, Miranda. Span some fire outside there, then went home and vegged.

Thursday 14th July

Woke up, instantly bored. Headed for the beach and lazed. Got mobbed by a gang of grommets, and distracted them by teaching them some contact moves with the staff and then letting them get on with it while I lay about and read Empire. Went home about 6ish and had a cup of tea. Brad came over, all ashen faced. I passed him a J, and asked him what was wrong. Right. Prepare yourselves. Get this:

We have been asked to put together a crew of 5-6 fire performers to do 4 nights a week (Mon - Thurs) at the Eden Project . For the next 8 weeks! For £50 a night!

Once I'd come round, we started ringing people to get a team together. A lot of people are away for the summer (which baffles me - why live in a place like Falmouth, then leave in Summer, the only time it's really nice?) but we managed to get a group of 5.

My friend Emma lent me a dvd of Sin City, so I was up half the night watching that. What an amazing film!

Friday 15th July

Woke up around 1ish and flopped about a bit. Had a nice long chat to Mojo on the phone. It's funny in a way, I know she loves me very much, and she doesn't doubt my love for her, but she just doesn't trust me. Must be the eyebrows. I think it'll be ok in time, but maybe I'm just a hopeless optimist.

Rico came over, and we wandered in to town and got a fry up. Mighty tasty it was too. Then he went to the shops, and I went to get my hair cut, buy paraffin, and go home to start getting ready for the evening's gig. Brad and Joss came over and we drove to Perranporth to meet Kelly and get painted.

The gig was a joint 50th birthday party at the same place as the week before, the Smuggler's Den. We loitered around and ate burgers and corn on the cob until the sun went down, then started burning. It was a good enough show, Brad did some breathing towards the end, and the kids certainly loved it. We got paid £200 which was split between us according to who'd bought what, and Brad got extra for breathing. Then we headed back to mine and all but passed out, Joss and I watched Sin City (I could watch it again and again and again...) and I finally got to sleep about 5am.

Saturday 16th July

Woke up about 1pm with 29 missed calls from Tamsyn. Quickly showered and pegged it to the station to get the train to Bodmin. My friend Dave (the circus society guy) was on the train, and we chatted and shot the breeze for the length of the journey. Tamsyn, Dean and the girls picked me up at Bodders, and we got back here in time for me to feed the girls, put Rhe to bed and then write this humungous missive.

There you are, all up to date and proper, and hopefully now you see why I won't be at Maenporth until late on Thursday night. Although, I will be fully bodypainted. If that's any consolation.

Love to all

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 16th Jul 2005
Incidentally, does anyone know...if we're working as firespinners for £200 a week...does that make us Professional Spinners?

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 16th Jul 2005
Congrats on the job!

I'll have to come up and say hello, when do you start?

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Posted: 16th Jul 2005
This Monday for Jungle Days. I tried to ring you actually, on Thursday, to see if you were free to do the gig, but couldn't reach you. Please tell me you couldn't have done it or I'll feel really guilty...

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 16th Jul 2005
I think you were safe, my life is crazy hectic at the moment! I'll definately find time over the next couple of weeks to come see you guys perform though!

My state of mind is not yours to define!

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

Posted: 16th Jul 2005

Written by: Mags The Jedi

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Incidentally, does anyone know...if we're working as firespinners for £200 a week...does that make us Professional Spinners?

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50 quid per person per night, or 50 quid for the whole team? 10 quid a head doesn't sound like much of a living.

Technically, I think you can claim you're a professional as soon as someone pays you once but I'd say a four-night-a-week gig is a more convincing reason.

Have you got yourselves public liability insurance?

"Talk hard"

Posted: 17th Jul 2005
50 quid per person per evening - the evening's show is about 45 minutes long, plus time for getting ready etc.



We don't have public liability insurance yet, as for some reason all the places we've consulted run their insurance year from September to August. Bit wierd, but there you are. Consequently the Eden gigs will be done under a group insurance thing.



Sunday 17th 2005



Woke up about midday. Stumbled about in the house and garden with the kids , Tamsyn and Dean. Doubt we'll do much today, probably just sit in the garden. Today is my last calm day for a few weeks, so i'm gonna make the most of it.



Ho hum. What a nice day. I hope it's sunny wherever you are.

"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."

Bill Hicks, February 1988

Posted: 17th Jul 2005
Well done on the job mate, see you in four days

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife

"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian

Posted: 17th Jul 2005
Wow, like, man, my flabber is gasted, y'know? My Son, the Firespinner, yeah, sounds like, more Kool than My Son the Doctor/Lawyer...

Go Spinners! (Sorry, that's Aussie Rules talk, it crept in there somehow). Seriously, it sounds a blast and fits with the rest of your life, as far as I can gather. Congratulations on going Pro.

Send Oy a text to let Oy know when you're at L'son, I'll give you a call.

Cheers, enjoy every moment of life, it won't come back again.
Muchly love

RosieMary
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Posted: 20th Jul 2005
hey there,

the glow poi basically died so Ed bought some fire poi we've been practicing so it'll be just in time for Falmouth .

Congrats on the job...see you this weekend.

xxx

Posted: 25th Jul 2005

It was wicked to finally meet the Jedi that is Mags
Thanks for all your organising….hope you managed to de-stress and have yourself a top weekend. Sorry we rushed off without saying goodbye. If we’d stayed and said goodbye to everyone I think we’d still be there now ….. come to think of it we should have done that. Sure would beat being back at work today!

Thanks for a utterly perfect weekend.

So…..when’s Falmouth 5 then???

See you again soon

Live well, love much, laugh often...

Official O.B.E.S.E. cheerleader

Posted: 25th Jul 2005

Written by: RosieMary

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Wow, like, man, my flabber is gasted, y'know? My Son, the Firespinner, yeah, sounds like, more Kool than My Son the Doctor/Lawyer...

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HEY!!!!

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura