barcelona-paris birthday, apollo and @warriorgrrl vBlog ep 07! :::
Best. Birthday. EVER! I’m just sorry I don’t have photos to share of me raucously celebrating the stroke of midnight on the 1st of June in the small, otherwise quiet bar on the Barcelona-Paris train, my boyfriend and our lovely new travelling companion Chris singing Happy Birthday to me at the top of their voices and the barman proudly offering me a birthday bar of chocolate (with a picture of a train on the wrapper, of course) before I grabbed him and kissed him on both cheeks shouting Happy Birthday to you too! Trying to clamber silently in to the top bunk of a very small compartment full of sleeping French ladies ten minutes later was quite amusing, after which a tipsy tweet escaped from my fingers before I passed out cold: Officially. Grown. Up.
I’m not sure about that, but after a wonderful sunny birthday spent cycling around Paris, eating amazing vegan food (in Paris! Yes!) and lounging in secluded parks (all thanks to the marvellous Cathy) it’s been back to work for me with lots of filming, editing and project planning for the coming weeks alongside milking the whole birthday thing dry with a day of drinking fizzy wine, eating chilli and getting my supertalented musical friends to perform in my living room. These things have to be done!
I’ve also found myself caught up in a brand new arts project happening right round the corner from my house: The Apollo Project. I made a vBlog episode based on last Thursday’s launch night (see below) and have been volunteering in the daytimes to help keep the shop open for visitors between 10am and 10pm every day this month. There are great events happening all the time and the space is pulling all kinds of interesting, creative people together so it’s a vibrant hub of inspiration for me at the moment. I feel very lucky to be able to get involved in any way.
Please read my Qype blog post about the Apollo Project here, check out their website for the full story plus up to date events listings here, and watch my video right here:
And how are you?
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