[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-the-sad-story-of-our-studio-squid":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Gary bought this orange squid at a Deptford pound shop as a companion for Plarchie, Lauren's giant squid knitted out of Sainsbury's carrier bags. (Yes, Plarchie even has his own \u003Ca href=\"http://plarchie.tumblr.com/\">Tumblr blog\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/Plarchie\">Twitter account\u003C/a>.) But Plarchie's a vicious squid, and he and the little orange guy never really bonded, and Little Orange Guy looked more and more miserable hanging from our balcony. Yesterday, Gary and I put him out of his misery and cut him down. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/squid_story-9406c88255.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe felt terrible. He looked at us from the dumpster with this manic grin. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/squid_story2-846da3a581.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBut we only had about twenty seconds to contemplate our actions because, wouldn't you know, the bin men turned up just then and took him away. We watched him go, with tears lingering on our eyelashes. (Well, Gary bawled like a baby, I took it much more stoically.) Here's Gary's photo montage:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/squid_story3-366e5833fa.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1"\">Photos by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk/\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nWe were both crazy-deadlining, but we still had a quick walk to \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deptford_Market\">Deptford Market\u003C/a>. We LOVE that place, you can find anything there. Here's Gary in the background, surveying the terrain.\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more market photos under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_3-140ed8dd1b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe spotted some lovely old annuals in one of the bookmonger stalls.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_5-99fc2c5b62.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the annuals had endpapers that looked very much like the market. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_4-243a332963.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe had bubble tea at Panda Panda and had a look at a few of them. This one has a beautiful layout and also makes me laugh. (Click on the pic for a larger version.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/Uploads%202012/fatgirls_thingirls.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_7-bf762a5030.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nMore from Deptford Market... Electric shock treatment, anyone?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_6-be12bd8c44.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis picture book deadline is frying my brain, otherwise I'd come up with some sort of clever caption for this one...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_1-0e961cd9ae.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStill worrying about our poor squid. I'll meditate on that for a bit.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/deptford_market_2-db32fc692c.jpg\">","2012-03-29T08:49:00.000Z","the-sad-story-of-our-studio-squid",[],"the sad story of our studio squid",1776628721635]