Krystine Qinan has been really busy building in Steelhead Shanghai and she’s added a wonderful temple. I don’t know what it is for yet, but as it has a ruddy great fish on the walls, I’m going to pretend she made it to honour the mighty Steelhead. As you can see, it’s quite a size (this picture was taken before it was moved a little, swapping places with the terraces).

She’s done a brilliant job with the roof – I just fell in love with these corners and joints!

And look up at the wonderful golden dragons on top…

All hail The Fish!

So pop over and check it out – and if you’d like to know more about living in the slums just IM Krystine Qinan in-world

Wowsers! My old mate Nish has been a busy bee! Her Butterfly House (visit it here) is really taking shape now – Frank and I took an early moring ride out into Boomtown (you don’t see the scamps up at dawn, and in Boomtown they tend to stick to the old mines and tunnels rather than the streets so I feel safe) to see it and we weren’t dissapointed! It’s going to be beautiful! Have a poke about and you’ll find she’s added a few fun things you can sit on

I hear that her experiments to breed an anti-vampire vampire moth are going so well she’s thinking of branching out into the anti-zombie field! Maybe she needs to speak to Osprey about these developments as Ms Therian is also a keen developer of anti-monster products…

Right, I’ve had enough. I want to IM in-world from my phone. Before you mention Sparkle or Touch Life let me stop you there. I *don’t* have a iPhone or iPad or an iAnything. I have a Windows Mobile phone.That means my phone, whilst having some lovely features life a working Office suite, was designed to be as much fun as say your average stapler and has apps like Weather! and Productivity Now! and GeoTagMe!

Jesus.

Enough. I want – and will fucking wll pay for! – an app that allows me to IM with SL. That’s all. That’s not a lot to ask for. Just IM. I’d love more, but I will settle for IM. Now will someone please – PLEASE – make the fucker and put me out of my Windows Mobile misery.

I love – LOVE! – this neat little gizomo on Avatrian (huge TY to Osprey for finding it!). You simply enter a sim name and the X,Y & Z coordinates and in a few mins you have a 360 degree photo-view point thingy of that spot! How cool is that? This is the view from my camp in Stelhead St Helens. Go to the Avatrian Peek 360 site and try one for yourself!

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The scamps had found Li Fe. Or what was left of him. I’d seen cannibalism before, back in Manchester, back in the dark days, back when I still had children. How in God’s Name was I going to tell a mother that her only child had been eaten by some monster from our collective nightmares?

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For all my Creaky Gloom posts, click here.

For more about the Hunt for Creaky Gloom read these posts:

• “Eeeee’s Back!”
• “Creaky Hunt”
• “Something Unseelie”
• “The Hunt for Creaky Gloom”
• And search the Steelhead Ning here

It was barely my first night in my new home and already my isolation was being disturbed. It had started during the day when I noticed some kind of kerfuffle across the water at the mill. Mara Razor’s place was being over run by children, the scamps of Steelhead and urchins from Babbage all seemed to be converging on the farm in what looked like some kind of mass exodus!

Then came the terrible sounds in the night! I rushed out of my tent and across the river I heard an animal screaming in terror and pain! I was about row over when torches emerged from the mill. I don’t know what happened, but someone, or something, had attacked Mara’s animals.

And now… now I can just make out the children all building rafts and getting ready to sail across towards me. I know I’m being foolish, I know I’m being a coward, but I can not face them! If they come this was that I am going to hide in the forest until they have gone – I know where there is an empty cave…

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For all my Creaky Gloom posts, click here.

For more about the Hunt for Creaky Gloom read these posts:

• “Eeeee’s Back!”
• “Creaky Hunt”
• “Something Unseelie”
• “The Hunt for Creaky Gloom”
• And search the Steelhead Ning here

Marianne McCann is a busy lass! I’m pretty sure that when you read this she’ll either be at camp or just on her way back and no doubt she’ll have at least three projects ready to roll. One of the latest she has completed is her brilliant information centre in Nova Albion – I took Frank out for a stroll to have a looksee…

In a really small space and with less prims than some people have in a single piece of furniture she’s a built a beautifully designed (and fun!) welcome and info area for people to find out more about Nova Albion, Bay City, The Tri-City Area and Sansara. Add a crazy Sno-Kone robot and you have the perfect place for newbies (and oldbies!) to find out more about the oldest land in SL Go and see it here.

Don’t forget to get your sno-kone… but don’t try and sit on the robot

Have a click around and you might just get a free tee

Cheers for the great resource Mari!

Osprey had a plan. A secret plan. A sneaky plan. A good plan. A plan to say a big fat happy birthday to Lucy. You can read more about it here on Osprey’s blog – let me merely bathe you eyes in the glory of a dozen large tin ducks on tricycles flashmobbing Lucy, then a prog rock gig, Philip Linden’s house, a pub and finally a nightclub quacking all the way

On a small, forgotten island, Osprey watched the horizon for the unsuspecting Lucy…

Whilst beneath the waves a silent army of ducks waited for her signal…

On cue (LUCY! DUCK!) the army burst forth quacking all the way!

After a quick party with Lucy, she donned the tin duck too and we set off looking for sims to gatequack!

We quacked our way through a couple of numbers with The Invisible Band!

Danced at a great little pub!

Held a board meeting at Philip Linden’s house (we discussed seed funding)…

I took a dip in Philip’s pond… I mean pool…

And finally we took over a great nightclub where we demanded BREAD!

Don’t think this is the last the grid has seen of Da Duckz and their own style of Hamlet’s beebop reality, oh noes we’ll be back!

p.s. For more pics and stuff see these blogs and flickrs: Osprey, Enjah, Lucy, Kumi, Ilia. I’ll add more as they appear

QUACK!

Winter is leaving Steelhead now and Spring is not only in the air but underfoot. I took a screengrab of the citymap in its full snowy glory to remind me how pretty it was Clicky for bigger!

I was on my house calls and cycling through Port Harbour when I was horrified to find that Miss Eugenia Burton’s houseboat had sunk!

I hear on the grapevine later that the flooding was due to a bit of DIY on a leay tap, but I can’t help wondering if her endless pursuit of the handsome Herr Baron had anything to do with it…

Pop over to Steelhead Port Harbour & take a look for youself. You’ll be in good company.