I’ve been working on and off to recreate a Marlowe-esque office for my Bay City PI, Bryce Carter. This is it so far (although the av’s look and AO have changed now)
This it the old Bryce look:
This is the new (the one above looked very odd in profile):
I’ll keep tinkering and posting 
A while back I was up in my (very basic) sky workshop high high high above St Helens when Mari came over to see the wooden wood-work lathe I was building…
Mari’s a cracking builder so it’s always nice to show her stuff as I’m still such a noob at it (and I think I always will be). She was a great help with my log cabin and I wanted to show her that I’d actually started enjoying building after moaning on at her about how tedious rezzing and moving and colouring prim-after-prim-after-prim could be. Here she is with my lathe and guide pictures taken from t’interweb behind her (I was in the middle of altering all the textures so the final result looks a bit different, but that’s for another post)…
After I picked her brains we chatted for a while and she showed me the Primmer cars that were going to used in Bay City’s 2nd Anniversary parade – based on the American Shriners I just can’t stop smiling when I see them!
I missed Bay City’s 2nd Anniversary Parade. After all that planning I sodding well missed it. I didn’t mean to but the Gods that rule either/or/and (delete as appropriate) SL’s lag & my PC conspired to give me a whole weekend of crashe. Things would start out OK, but then everything would start t o g e t v e r y s l o w
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ARGH! In the end I couldn’t get back in so I buggered off to watch telly & brood. I did manage to take some shots before I exited the field stage left – here are a selection but there are lots more in the Bay City Flickr Group. Also check out there folks for their far better (and longer) experiences: Marianne, Osprey & Adric. And a big old TY to Mari & her Bay City/Nova Albion friends for arranging such a fun event!
p.s. That Duck! is me!
Come join Bay City’s 2nd anniversary parade this Sunday 16th May at 12 noon SLT – you’ll have a great time!
Marianne McCann (and all the Bay City planning team) have done a great job organising this year’s celebrations – don’t miss it! Here’s the route – join us at the start point (SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bay City – Argos/11/11/24) for the parade or meet us at the end point for the party!
Osprey has put a call out to all Ducks. QUACK!
Hard to believe that it’s been two years since the Moles finished the last lick of paint on the (then) newest city in SL and the eager beavers who wanted a slice of Americana were preparing to move in. I took part in the opening parade but missed the first anniversary one as I was away (damn RL!). I’m hoping I’ll be able to make it this year but the date and time are yet to be fixed. Keep your eye on the Bay City Twitter channel and you could do worse than following Mari & Holo’s blogs 
Whilst I was over in Bay City admiring the work going on at the site of the planned fairground, I noticed a helicopter passing overhead. A quick check revealed the pilot’s name to be one I recognised – SteelCobra Calamari, Emporer of Steeltopia & friend of Steelhead. A quick radio call and he put his whirlybird down right next to me with practiced ease…
It seemed he was on official SCSE, Steeltopia Consortium of Scientific Endeavors, business and was exploring the oldest part of the grid (and my old stamping ground) North West Sansara! He ofered me a lift and how could I say no?
In no time at all we were soaring over some very familiar landmarks (well, familiar to me and readers of this blog – they were pretty new to the SCSE!). We followed Route 66 past the old Bay City asslyum and into Nova Albion…
Where we passed over Salazar’s bridge in Nova Albion…
Over the ever-busy Ahern welcome area…
And into Oak Grove which is next to my old home of Murray
Where I had to bail out as RL was calling – but a huge thanks to SteelCobra for both the lift and the chance to bore someone new about the history of SL
A recent call from Marianne McCann sent me dashing over to North Channel, the region between Nova Albion & Bay City to see the latest exciting development in Bay City’s exciting short life – following a meeting of the Bay City Alliance, Michael Linden was hard at work on raising an island to house a fairground! I TPed over and found the access route shut off…
Pressing ahead I could clearly see just how hard Michael was working – he had a barge set up and the Alliance’s plans set out so he knew exactly where to dredge and where to drop.
I had to leave but when I came back a few days later, the land mass was all but finished! Next stop, add the rides!
(That’s the ‘burbs of Shermville at the top and the Grignano region of Nova Albion to the right)
I can’t wait to see how these plans turn out!
Big time kudos to Holo, Mari and the others from Bay City for organising the first ever Tri-Cities parade (and to Osprey for her usual bang-up job on publicity) because the Halloween march through the cities and leap off Shermville bridge was a hoot! Everything happened on time and the party under the water afterwards was a blast!
Here I am (a zombie version of me) on my steampunk horse
The Nova Albion Parade off to meet the others on the bridge!
BAT!
The bat killed Lucy!
LisaHot plays a mean drum and fires a meaner cannon!
On the bridge a the sun came up…
Osprey looking teh sexeh!
Lucy needs a shave!
Kumi gets it oooonnnnnnn!
Holo leads the Bay City parade up the bridge…
Getting ready to jump…
Heere we all goooooooooooo!
Party with da fishes!
Starting at noon (SLT) on Sunday 1st November, the Tri-Cities (Nova Albion, Bay City & Shermville) are holding a HUGE “Day of the Dead” halloween parade and it’s open to all! Find out more over on Osprey’s blog here as well as Holo’s blog and Mariane’s blog. See you there!
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