Eek!! It’s a coup!! A day in the life of Sephy and Pre…

Greetings, people! Sephy here!! :D Yes, I have momentarily wrested control of the blogginess from HWMBO…. mwahahahahah!!

The Melbourne run of SPAMALOT at Her Majesty’s Theatre finishes tonight. We have talked about going since it started, but haven’t quite got there, so we decided last night that we would catch the matinee today.

We drove into town and parked in our usual spot. Saw Nick Cave sauntering through the carpark. Sephylogic suggests that the underground carpark of the Melbourne Arts Centre should therefore be named the Nick Cave. Or something. :D

Continued on our merry way through the Arts Centre and out onto St Kilda Rd. Almost walked into a young lady who was bustling into the Arts Centre, obviously intent on her destination, and also almost walked into the young man rushing to keep up with her.
So. How is it, that in a city of almost 4 million people, we keep managing to run into Tany and Anfy????? She was obviously in a hurry… no doubt to see this Nick of the Underground Cave person… so we just laughed a lot (turns out it wasn’t them, Pre’s just crazy.) and headed on to breakfast (at World, Jeh. Fatty Boombah Breakfast - and many lattes after 90 minutes’ sleep - absolutely rules.) Note to self: anyone who comes to visit us in Melbourne needs to have breakfast with us at World. I did forget to have some of that freaky tea, though…

On to Her Maj, which is diagonally opposite Southbank and about a half hour brisk walk. The only tickets left were in the front row of the dress circle and Not Cheap. But they turned out to be worth every cent. Spamalot is completely hilarious, and the cast were superb. Without exaggeration. I’m a harsh critic, but not one note was fluffed nor one step out of place in the entire performance. And did I mention that it was freakin’ hilarious?

Wandered down to Y&J’s, had a beer at Chloe’s Bar (another Melbourne institution) and home. Pre, make with the posting of the trashy souvenirs…. :D

Love Sephy :D

Tip your barman

In this post I mentioned how I had finally finished the woodwork on the bar.

Well, now I’ve finished sanding, staining, sanding and varnishing it.

Tip big :)

Woodwork

For about… 12 months or so now, I’ve been working on building a bar with my dad. He’s not been too well of late. Very not well, in fact. So not well that it was imperitive that I finish the bar, if you get my meaning.

Anyway, aside from the sanding and the sealing/varnishing/whatevering, it’s done. And my god is it heavy. I’d say it’s easy more than 80kg. I thought it might be a little unsteady with just 2 straight sides on it. No frigging way.

Here you can see the front:

And the back or business side:

The construction process was not without its ups and downs. For example, I made two left-hand sides at one point. Also, the finished item is not quite what my original vision was, but it will suffice. The last oppsie was this:

The last 2 screws I put in, I thought were going into the wood surrounds. Turns out I was wrong. It can be filled. And if that’s the worst, I’ve gotten off easy.
It was fun to argue with Dad, and put forward my ideas and solutions to problems. Being an ex-ship’s carpenter, and making a lot of things in Mum and Dad’s house (including the false fireplace in the loungeroom), he had his way of doing stuff, and it was good to show him I’d learned a thing or two from watching him do stuff for all those years.

So now, just sanding. I’ll probably varnish it. Staining seems like a big job that can go horribly wrong if I use too little here, too much there. Varnish is clear.

I will need to get on with the sanding tho, Dad’s gotta have a drink at the bar we built.

Beer. Is there anything you can’t do?