Aug. 4th, 2007

rionaleonhart: final fantasy x-2: the sun is rising, yuna looks to the future. (beautiful day)
Today, I went to the innocent village fĂȘte in Regent's Park. It was awesome, partly because it had duck (well, goose) herding (sadly not, as I had hoped, anything like the pursuit of the swan in Hot Fuzz), morris dancing and a signpost directing people to 'weird old man', but mostly because I was with [livejournal.com profile] gayjunglefever, [livejournal.com profile] strangeumbrella, [livejournal.com profile] freakish_geek and [livejournal.com profile] immoralilly, who are wonderful people. ([livejournal.com profile] freakish_geek is one of the very few people hailing from the Internet who have actually turned out to look anything like my vaguely-formed mental preconceptions of them; my immediate thought upon seeing her was 'Well, that must be [livejournal.com profile] freakish_geek; that's exactly the hair I've always pictured her with.' And it was!)

This brings the number of people from LJland I have met in real life (with the exception of [livejournal.com profile] reipan, who I have known since well before I got a Livejournal) up to seventeen. I have absolutely loved meeting each and every one of them, and not a single one has attacked me with an axe. HOW CAN YOU ALL BE SO AWESOME? I love you all!

Anyway, we sat around and discussed slasher mentality (someone - I believe it was [livejournal.com profile] gayjunglefever - suggested the idea of T-shirts with the slogan (Hot Fuzz fans will probably remember double-taking at this) 'I'm a slasher! I must be stopped!', which is obviously genius) and made fun of Torchwood, because that was the purpose for which it was designed, and tripped over our words far too much (Reasons Riona Is An Idiot, Exhibit 41C: "When you're playing croquet, and you, um, score a goal..."). [livejournal.com profile] strangeumbrella had brought her ukulele, so we found a shady corner a little way from the insanely dense crowd and had a bit of a singing session, which was marvellous and the ukulele was so tiny and adorable and I may sort of want one now. Basically, it was an absolutely lovely day and I am extremely content.