So I think the tea party was basically a success. It really went exactly as I'd hoped, apart from the fact that there were obvious missing faces I would have been happy to have there - including Myles, Zoe, Rachel, Skye and Stephen, and the list goes on... We had 7 kinds of tea, chocolate covered radishes, a cake with salamanders and money baked into it, parachute men from the ceiling in the living room, jujubes from the ceiling in the solarium, a photo booth room, games like - find the most buttons, pickup the most feathers using giant utensils, bunny bunny ( with absurd punishments for screwing up) and the highlight of the afternoon - the boat race game. Not to mention classic surrealist movies playing constantly, a screening of "What's for Dinner" and " Melon Murder Madness" ( courtesy of Fermented Films) and the creation of a Borat imitation video which was submitted to Much Music that very night hours before the deadline. Looking forward to next year!
its blossom heaven here in Vancouver. A few days ago I spent 10 minutes just leaning out my window and watching some kind of bulldog, obviously crazed with spring fever, leaping straight up into the air towards a stick which was hanging down from a cherry tree loaded with flowers in the park across the street. It was just out of his reach, but that did not deter him from repeated acrobatic leaps straight upwards, trying over and over again to catch it. He did manage to snatch it in his jaws twice , for a split second before gravity proved much stronger than his teeth. In the second he caught it though, a glorious shower of blossoms shook all over everything. 
