Happy Waspiversary

Well, a year has passed since four of us gathered in Glasgow, drank a lot of coffee and made The List.

Thngs have changed.

Personal lives have fractured and taken on new shapes. Bad things have happened. Good things have happened. Awful things have happened. Great things have happened.

Kitezoo is off to Afghanistan (although she may still be in UAE right now).

Chomps is... somewhere. Some where between Russia and China. Inclusive.

Hex may well be in Glasgow.

I'm currently on a train to London (although I'll be back in the 'burgh soon).

But still there is The List, and still there are The Wasp Tasters.

Let's review!

List items ticked off

• Run a distance, more than 5km, less than a marathon - organised by Kitezoo
• Whisky tasting - organised by nome
• Learn a creative skill - tbc. Woodworking/pottery/millinery/ceramic painting - organised by nome
• Murder Mystery Pub Crawl Treasure Hunt - organised by Hex
• Go to a festival (tbc) - organised by nome. Not Woolfest, not Small Is...
• Go to the dogs and place bets - organised by Hex
• Trans-Siberian Railway - organised by Chomps (although Chomps is the only one doing it, SAD FACE)
• And a good number of instances of the ongoing list item #26: Cook something together regularly. Combine with List Steering Group - organised by nome

(So... of the 8 items we've ticked off, 4 were my responsibility. I think it's PRETTY EASY to see who's winning here.)

For me, at least, Wasp Tasting has brought a lot of joy in what could have been a particularly tough year. It's brought fun times, and promises fun times to come. 

One year ago, life became exciting again. 

And that's one thing that hasn't changed. 

Here's to the next year, Waspettes. 

Going the Distance

And so it came to pass that the ball was dropped and the wasp tasters shattered. Looking ahead, I'm not sure how many tasks we can complete the four of us together. Sad times.

But wasp tasters do not give up so easy. Divided we stand. And so, in that spirit, as many of us as could came together to Run a Distance (Less Than a Marathon, More Than 5km). As many as could was, in this case, two. Kate and I ran the Glasgow Women's 10k on Sunday 13 May. The weather was horrible. I got a stitch at 3km that never quite went away, acid indigestion just in time for the hill at 7km and had to stop to start retching as soon as I'd made it over the finish line. At so many stages I found myself thinking 'I could really do with a wee walk right now' but I kept at it and finished in a better time that I would have ever imagined at 54m10s. And even better is the knowledge that I have done it, I have scored it off the list, and I need never do it again.

I do have some photos on my phone, but they're kind of stuck on there until I can work out a way to de-cake the inner workings of my handset. In the meantime, there is a website. It is called marathon-photos.com and it is evil. Observe.

 

Beware the Colossus Wasp

From my own very evil laboratory, I present The Colossus Wasp. The scariest eyes of any creature known to mankind, an impenetrable leathery hide, powerful flapping ears and dual front stingers and a tail stinger make the colossus the ultimate predator.

The creature was created by mixing the rage of the honey badger with the pure evil of the wasp into the frame of the super-micro-pygmy elephant of the Congo.

Do not incur my wrath.

Dr Kitezoo (PhD in Evil)