So I've just had a great hour going through old juggling videos (I think most of these were filmed in 2007/08), of both me and my juggling /heroes thanks to this conversation.
I have uploaded a few videos for you - feel free to get bored and stop after the first one if it's not your thing (whatever happens i had great fun putting this together - so don't feel you need to continue if you get bored).
https://sendvid.com/v30f7j9c - This is more about the nice scenery than the juggling - If i remember correctly it's somewhere near Bar Harbour - Arcadia National park.
https://sendvid.com/comz6gtr - This is again in America somewhere (can't remember where), it's a few variations of a trick called mills mess.
https://sendvid.com/7mlgvdez - I tried to learn some contact juggling (that stuff david bowie (kinda) does in Labrynth) - I never got great at it, but put together a video one weekend - seeing as it's the only actual "juggling video" i made i thought i'd throw it in here.
https://sendvid.com/ptzstdf3 - Spoiler alert i am topless in this (feel free to skip to avoid both our blushes) - it's the only reasonable run of five balls i could really find so had to chuck it in there.
https://sendvid.com/gc2m2h8d - This may well not be as visually pretty as a lot of the others, but if i was at a convention, it was technically my best chance of impressing another semi decent juggler, and the trick i was proudest of getting decent at.
The gin thing just started to happen a couple of years ago, I hosted a dinner party and decided to try and up my game by having a spirit cabinet - we all got trashed, people loved it and so i started growing the spirit cabinet. Seeing as G&T is my personal favorite the gin collection grew faster than anything else (I have 15 types to offer now if a guest wants a G&T - I'm sorry if i come across very smug about this, but in a kind of horribly pretentious way I am).
I'm not as good at darts as i ever got at juggling, but against most random opponents i'd hold my own...
I'm happy you got the lucky metabolism (I got those lucky genes as well), gotta say i love both the healthy food and the unhealthy food alike, my official cooking method for pretty much everything savory is : if it doesn't taste good enough add more butter and salt, rinse repeat until it does taste good enough.
It's more that the fireplace would fit a cabinet in it nicely (it currently holds a wine rack, and out of use port barrel) - my idea was just to build a wooden cabinet that would fit in (in my head it was a beautifully designed thing that fit in perfectly, in reality i reckon i'd need to have at least two failed tries to just practice making wood joins that don't look horrible).
The copper veneers thing sounds cool - you gonna make the whole stand coppery or just the surfaces - are corners difficult, do you know what the hardest bits of this project will be? Oh yeah and are you happy with the new paint in your tv room?
Thank you i did have a lovely Christmas - I hope yours wasn't too much of a challenge, you seem like a lovely person who deserved to have a lovely day. I'm proud as punch and have a goofy grin from the implication that i made your day slightly nicer - no need to thank me, it's been an absolute pleasure.
I don't think i've written that much since my A levels, so it's about time for me to sign off.