Caledon Vigilantes!

Ah! It has been a long time since I have blogged. A few reasons. I have been busy, disenchanted and bored. A blip on the dull radar was a bad man! I am not sure how bad but apparently causing some concern over at Oxbridge. A call of alarm went out via ISC (Caledon's chatter) and from my current place of feeling underwhelmed and bored, I figured I would go and see what was happening. I found the culprit, boarded the flying machine he had commandeered and travelled with him for some minutes before he realised I was there :)
When he disembarked, he landed and was surrounded by a handsome but polite gang of Caledonians.

In the face of such a display of good looking and well mannered people he had no option but become meek and well behaved..

The gentleman was remarkably well dressed and well versed in the use of cages etc for a person of just days in age. I hope this "newbie" will be reformed, but some how I don't think so!

Caledon Frock, Victoriana Forest

I have been building just a little.

Jay is raising money to run the mines in Caledon. As he is on the look out for gifts to be donated for the treasure hunt, I have made a tiny Caledon outfit.
I took the outfit out for a little walk through my nearby forest. It was raining when I set out but the rain cleared and moon was shining through the leaves in shafts of light.
I wonder what the colours for Victoriana are! I could make a dress for it too.

Tilba Grove

This is me moving into my new home in Victoriana Forest.

I have squeezed and pushed and added prims to one of my older buildings, Gingerbread Cottage. It is now a tiny home. Room for Taz and I to sit by the fire or have a big friend or two join us in the music room. My treadle sewing machine waits for me to find time to sew again.

When I was building a year ago, the main aim was prim limitation. I would build a room with one prims, hollowed out and a doorway. These days, the crazy camera behavior in a hollowed out cube is not worth the few prims saved so I replaced all the hollowed prims with fine and proper ones and now it is much easier to navigate the camera aound the house.

Building outside is something of a challenge.

My camera is forever caught on the planes of a tree.
Still, I will put up with that because it means I live in a beautiful tree filled grove.
Can't wait to show you some more pictures as i wander around the sim!

More News!

I was asking Miss Peaches about the lack of dawn and she mentioned that she was selling her plot in the forest.. next thing I know she has taken over my plot and will sell it instead, and I am living on the side of a stream, opposite a water fall in the best place in Victoriana!
Photos to come!

News!

I have bought a plot in Victoriana Forrest! I told you I liked it there!
Now I have a little slice!
I like that Victoriana is a bit tidier than Caledon and I like that there are dots around in the ozzie hours! I like that it is smaller. I like playing in the games room in my ozzie evening. I like having a new project that is just for the fun of it, nothing commercial.

Fogwoman Gray and Vivito Volare

I met Miss Fog and Mr Volare while helping to build the Caledon exhibit for SL5BD. Mr Volare was the coordinator and Miss Fog his right hand woman.
Since then they have treated me to a few snippets of the story of their relationship which began in SL and is to continue in RL with them being married this week.
Two kind, generous people meeting and sharing interests.
It is something I watch with interest, the blossoming of an Internet friendship into a RL relationship.
It isn't something I find much acceptance of in the "real world" but I think that really it is only a matter of time before it is sufficiently common that people forget that ever there was a doubt about the validity of these relationships.
The Internet, like RL is full a mix of people. That part isn't different. Meeting and getting to know someone via TXT and not physical appearance is different. And the moment when you meet the physical person you think you already "know"... that has to be nerve wracking!
Vito and Fog have been there, done that! And on Thursday they marry!
I think anyone who knows them would agree it couldn't happen to nicer people. I wish them every scrap of happiness!

Not.... lonely

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My sl has changed
No two ways about it
My rl is busier. And my SL is spent mostly on my own building.
Chatting in IM I hear from Xavier and Jayleden. I listen to ISC and throw in my few bobs worth at random, but I am not where I was 12 months ago when I felt myself in the depths of good friendships.
Is it my fault? have I isolated myself? Is it just the nature of things? Is it a change throughout SL?
I don't know, but it isn't the same anymore.
I miss the people who used to pop by to say hi.
The neighbourhood feeling of Winterfell has never eventuated in Caledon.

It seems the Southend corner is being visited often enough by strangers looking at my homes. But not my friends looking for me.

Not about to launch into a valley of tears as there is so much more going on in my life besides SL but I do pause and reflect and hanker for some aspects of the good old times. Only some mind you :P