A busy birthday yesterday, always made special by Deborah and her attention to and celebration of all special occasions. Before her, birthdays and Christmas Days were ordinary days, perhaps with the annoying closure of shops. We went for a quiet wander to the Dagfields antique centre. It's very cluttered. Much of the items I'd leave there even if everything were free.
One thing I did buy was a CD, Revenge by Eurythmics, an original 1986 version. I also ordered a 1985 original Mr Bad Guy, and was gifted A Kind Of Magic by Queen, which I'd been thinking of getting for years. I have all of Queen's albums up to The Game, but none beyond that. I preferred the classic rock albums.
In the evening we watched 'Blood Tea and Red String', a visually arresting animation with a similar look to 'Bagpuss' or other Smallfilms animations.
Have spent today working on the 'Will You Be My Snowflake?' video, with perhaps a memory of 'The Clangers' and yesterday's film inspiring me. I simply set up Snowy in a few interesting posed and make him jump to the music, with a few simple scene changes for different song sections. It works surprisingly well.
All three videos are now complete in draft, but there's probably more polish I can add.
