[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-its-the-thought-that-counts":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"We had two birthdays in the studio, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a>'s yesterday and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stitchldn.com/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a>'s today, so we went down to the local to meet \u003Ca href=\"http://www.mythical9th.com/\">Alex Milway\u003C/a>, \u003Ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/9619579\">Martin Lye\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comixinflux.com\">Stephen Betts\u003C/a>, and I gave Lauren this lumpy clay thing that's supposed to look like her. Except it all went a bit wrong when I was making it, it just kept getting worse and worse until it was just kind of funny. She was very nice about it, though.  \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bday2jun_1-a9461354de.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's us at the end of the evening, at least Gary had a good time.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bday2jun_3-0f77abb202.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd he was well chuffed with his new bird feeder. Likes his birds, does Gary.\\r\n\u003C!--more Under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/bday2jun_2-ac05f75485.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOh, and check out \u003Ca href=\"http://blog.brewer.me.uk/2010/06/uber-detailed-london-map-satire.html\">this hand-drawn London map\u003C/a> over on Dan Brewer's blog, it's insanely detailed!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>Edit:\u003C/i> Just listening to BBC Radio 4's \u003Ci>Front Row\u003C/i>, Audrey Niffenegger and Tracy Chevalier giving a tour of Highgate Cemetery. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qsq5\">Listen Again link here.\u003C/a> (Thanks for tip-off, \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a>!)","2010-06-03T09:20:00.000Z","its-the-thought-that-counts",[],"it's the thought that counts",1776628718294]