I need to blog more often ... TL;DR

I have been meaning to post something on here for a while, but didn't really have anything new to say. Then I realised this is my blog; a place where I can write about what is going on in my life and what is important to me at this moment in time.

So that's what I'm going to do.

In my head, there are always two thing that are at the forefront of my mind and most important to me (not counting family, obviously*). The first is my obsession of the moment. The other is adventure playgrounds.

Let me explain the latter. When I was little, we used to pass this really cool looking playground on the way to my Gran's house, and every time we passed it, I would say 'Can we go there one day?'. The response was always 'Maybe, one day.' I don't remember ever going there. Therefore, I have always had an insatiable love for playgrounds.

Last week, when I was staying in Yeovil with my sister, we went for a walk at Nine Springs, and there, we came across the most awesome playground I have ever been in!

So, there was a pirate ship, a swing thing, a weighing thing, a swirly thing, and all sorts of other cool things.

Have some photos.

The weighing thing was really depressing at first, because it was weighted on one side, so whoever was on that side looked a lot heavier. Obviously, this side was the one I went on. Then we swapped, so my sister was on the heavy side, and it made us equal. At the time, I was appeased. I don't know why though; it still meant I was heavier!

I love how in the back of that picture, you can see my sister's boyfriend quite obviously really wanting a go on the seesaw horsey thing. He obviously thought someone should act grown up, what with my sister and I running around giggling like 5 year olds, and my dad sat in the train thing.

The swirly thing you sat in, and then the other person pulled it around so you went upside down and right over. If you closed your eyes, you could pretend you were in a washing machine.

So yeah, it was awesome. Split my jeans though.


In my last post, I said 'So now, I'm on to Tsubasa. I have read up a lot on how confusing this is going to turn out to be, and how the anime doesn't make any sense whatsoever...'. Having finished the anime, I just wanted to say how I got on.

It ended much quicker than i had thought, as I was expecting basically four series; Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle with two seasons, followed by Tokyo Revelations and then Shunraiki. So I got to the end of series 2, which was just starting to get really interesting, to find out that the Tokyo Revelations and Shunraiki weren't so much seasons, as 'specials' (OVA's). By this point, I kind of knew what was going to happen, due to my annoying habit of researching ahead of myself, so I didn't really understand how the story could get through all of what was to come in what turns out to be 5 episodes.

It didn't.

I didn't feel too lost, having not read the manga, but I think you need to appreciate that the two seasons are separate from the two OVA's, which were more like extras for fans of the manga. Tokyo Revelations went back to half way through season 2, and went along the manga's plot rather than its own little deviation, so you have to imagine half a season didn't happen. Shunraiki is even more confusing in that it jumps ahead, assuming that you have read the manga to know where the story has been. Its like a series that has been axed, and the OVA's are Easter eggs on the special edition DVD.

Really, I think it was an excellent marketing tool. You get hooked on the anime, and then when it stops, giving you tantalising hints of whats going to happen, you go out and buy the manga, just to keep the story from ending.

Too bad for Clamp you can read it all online. Which is what I'm doing right now!

Okay, I think I should stop writing now. Congratulations if you have made it to the end. Wasn't really worth it, was it?

<3 x

* My friends count as my family - some more so than my actual family.