2 October 2025

Good morning.

It is 3:45 am.

I've been up 40 minutes. Cyprus beckons.

Up next - a drive down the M1 to Luton Airport.

All being well I'll log back on in the priority lounge

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7:30 am.

It's mad.

Both the departure and priority lounge's are packed.

It was a steady drive down - no 50 mph limits until we hit the Junction's 10 and 11 Dunstable and Luton turn offs.

Julie has just nipped down to swipe her Priority Pass as the girl on reception was dealing with a crowd of people after she'd initially turned us away for 15 minutes as our flight is supposedly delayed by half an hour.

I've no idea if we are as I've not checked yet.

Animation. Opposite is another one of Leoni Middleton with her scooter underneath the viaduct close to the entrance of the fictitious club that is the Hammersmith Vaults.

In Series 1 Leoni, along with Joanne Lynskey, Krissy K, Pammy Antrobus and later on Anita Pallenburg, earn pin money by flying around on their Vespa's placing fixed-odds bets in and around London for Mason Green.

Gaynor played at it for about 10 minutes but found that whilst in a relationship with Mason, she didn't really need to work for her money - hence why she was always referred to as The Princess by a section of The Vaults... and the Wench or the Spoiled Bitch by Leoni.

In Series 1, Leoni is at university studying to be an accountant, and in Series 2 - some seven years later, she has passed out and is working as the Administration and Accounts Manager at the Greenford Group and being prepped for a bump-up to director.

She is extremely close to Mason.

Day 272

Hammersmith Vaults: Leoni Middleton

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(Above) I created this 1:02 second animation with Leoni Middleton using six frames with transitions and a reverse loop and from an image that I created with Adobe Photoshop 2025.

Music. Where Did All the Love Go by Kasabian.

1 October 2025

Good morning.

I was up and out through the woods with the dog at 6:40 am and got back in just as it started raining.

I am looking out of the window now and it is pissing it down.

Julie is at the hospital today.

A pre-op?

I'm not sure as the NHS is a law unto itself.

It is vastly oversubscribed with patients, many of whom shouldn't even be here but more to the point it is overloaded with shit staff. And that goes for those at the GP's surgery in the town - receptionists included.

It isn't just in the now, either. It has always been the case.

I recall Big Scott's eldest kid breaking his femur (thigh bone) when he was about three years old.

He was in bed in absolute agony and screaming the place down.

When we got there I counted eight nurses standing around just talking about their personal shite. It wasn't for five or ten minutes either. It was well over an hour and a half.

Disgraceful.

Out of three messages I sent out yesterday - to the mechanic over in Cyprus, the landscaper, and the door and the window fitter - only the latter came back. And he is away this week!

We had a new window cleaner call round this morning.

No window cleaner wants to do our house.

The last one - Johnny Big Nose was worse than fucking useless and after scamming us for £35 maintained he couldn't do the long one on the staircase - so it never got done.

He could do it. He was just a lazy bastard.

This new one says that he will do them properly for £50 a shot, so Julie has signed him up for the duration.

I've just looked back at what I have written.

I sound a right moaning git!

We are out of the UK tomorrow - the 9:55 am flight into Larnaca.

Roll on.

Animation. I have chucked up four that I've had on here previous. Two portrait and two landscape.

All from Series 1.

Day 271

Gaynor Mellor: The Portrait Shots

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(Above) A couple of upright (portrait) shots of the Gaynor Mellor character in 9:16 widescreen.

If the animation software can do full (upright) 9:16 shots without losing the resolution, it should be able to do the full (landscape) 16:9 shots.

However, it does not - so at the moment I break the image into two's and three's.

It is highly annoying.

3D will be better.

Gaynor Mellor: The Landscape Shots

Rendered at 2160p 4k, 16:9 Widescreen

(Above) At the moment I break the image into two's and three's so as to try and keep the resolution sort of in tact.