Mark’s Movember

Hey, I just realised that I didn’t post anything up here about my Movember effort. It’s part of a global campaign to raise awareness of prostate cancer, and hopefully raise a few quid, too. Here’s my facial fungus after one week:

And here’s how it looked after a fortnight. Trust me, the digital effects are only a good thing.

Watch this space for more Movember updates – and if you’d like to chip in, or just a leave a comment, my Movember page is here:

http://us.movember.com/mospace/927808/

It’s really easy to donate (in $ or £) and every little helps!

Snowpocolypse 2010

Just when we thought winter was still a month off, Seattle was hit by a humdinger of a blizzard yesterday.

Whiteout conditions through the night but we woke this morning to a glacial, blue-skied dawn. It could only mean one thing – snow day!

Karen and I wandered down to Gasworks Park to watch the kids sledding and chill our fingers to the point we could justify holing up in Irwins Bakery to thaw out.

It’s hard to believe it’s not even Thanksgiving yet – despite seeing autumn colours with a foot of snow… Do we have four months of this to come?

A little work at home, then out again to lunch at Green Lake with Bill and Christy. Here are some super-cooled ‘upsicles’ from the shore.

Trolloween – the Fremont troll turns 20

After a little light trick or treat sweet dispersal, Karen and I threw on our rather low-effort costumes (Venetian courtiers!) and headed down to the troll under Aurora Bridge.

Apparently, the troll celebrates his birthday on October 31 and this year he turns a very dignified 20.

We watched some undead belly dancers and then a couple of zombies showed up…

Then it was downhill all the way for a rocking, glam-ed up parade through Fremont…

Finishing up in a drumming micro-rave under the Fremont Bridge. With skeletons, naturally.

Pumpkins ahoy!

Sorry for the delay getting stuff up on the blog – no excuses, except that I’m really very lazy. So, zooming way back to Halloween, we started with a fun pumpkin carving party at Jen’s – including some squash the size of small cars.

Here’s Karen elbow deep in seeds and yellow gunk.

But the results were worthwhile I think! That’s Karen’s Mr Pringle in the foreground and my angry Space Invader second from top.