Keep your eye on the frisball!

Despite the fact that I still have quite a few things I need to sort out before Chu arrives, I headed to London this morning to the traditional annual TFL Party in the Park. Last year it fell on my birthday so I didn't go, but this year I managed to fit it in. And I'm really glad that I did - all the hours sweating in the train and the tube were rewarded by good company, food, frisbee and frisball.

It's funny - these are people I've "known" for years trough originally sharing a common passion for Farscape, but as many things TFL has actually evolved to something completely different. At first when you meet eye-to-eye, the real life communication is a bit difficult - but after a while people are chatting and talking like old friends. We played a bit of frisbee and managed to scare all the other people away from the war memorial we were based at by not throwing the frisbee very well or making many catches - after they left I'm sure our game improved, but I still wouldn't recommend quiting our day jobs guys! Frisbee then evolved to a game of frisball - a strange game where a ball and a frisbee are both in play at the same time. The ball was a hard baseball so it was mainly thrown between people with gloves or who were otherwise either very skilled (Ian) or just mental (TeeKay). The trick is to keep you eyes on both the ball and the frisbee as either one can be thrown at you at any time.

I also got to test my new camera at action, literally - as I wanted to see how fast it was with action shots so I tried to photograph the frisbee on air. Nine times out of ten I managed to do that so I'm pretty happy - I've put the best photos of the afternoon up on my site in case anyone is interested in seeing the quality my new baby can do.

On the way back home the train broke down and I had to change the train, but it's so normal it's almost not worth mentioning. Excellent day, anyway.

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