Last Friday we finished up work with drinks, food and a trip to the V&A – we work right near South Kensington so it’s a nice little walk over to the museum. The exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations was definitely the best interactive exhibition I’ve ever been to – every piece was engaging and encouraged solo and group participation from the users… a room of digital play and experimentation. The exhibition showcased the latest developments in digital and interactive design, and quite a few pieces were built using flash. My favourite installation was a projection of a tree blowing in the wind which reacted according to the weather outside the museum building – you could even kick around the leaves on the floor! But they were all very innovative and enjoyable! I reccomend you all to check the exhibition out if you are in London – It’s on until 11th of April! Credit to my buddy Steve who took most of the photos – check out his travel photography on Flickr, his pics are awesome! The night continued with drinks, drinks and more drinks!

Have you been to any good exhibitions recently??

I’m lucky enough to live near the fantastic Westonbirt Arboretum . I hadn’t been for years until the last couple of months – I’m not usually a fan of the cold seasons but there isn’t a better place to go and realise how beautiful they really can be! The perfect place to walk and talk with my favourite people :) as well as to celebrate the changing on the seasons!

The arboretum holds 600 acres trees and woodland to explore, with 3000 varieties of rare trees. Its the perfect place to go when you forget how powerful nature can be, roaming under huge amazing trees you’ve never seen before, each with such presence and history about it! In autumn the trees display rainbows of vivid colours, and in Winter an ‘Enchanted Christmas’ event is held in the evenings, where the trees are lit up beautifully. Definitely worth a visit even any time of year!

I thought i’d share some of my Autumn adventures… so to give you some background on this visit, since leaving Uni I have decided to take on the challenge of getting super fit as this is something I never considered myself as or thought I could be! I’ve been training hard 5/6 days a week, and taken up running. In May 2010 I will be doing the Three Peaks Challenge in order to raise money for Help for Heroes! This challenge consists of climbing the three highest peaks of the UK within 24 hours – Snowdon in Wales, Ben Nevis in Scotland and Scafel in England! This is super hard and will include climbing one mountain in the dark!! If you have a couple of quid to spare, please please sponsor me so I can reach my £450 target!

So to get a tiny feel for the challenge, my lovely parents decided we’d go and climb Snowdon in Wales! The trip ended up being a right mission as we are at the other end of the country, thus had to get a B&B for the night before! Unfortunately on the way to the bottom of the mountain, the car got damaged and broke down!! We had to sit in a hotel all day waiting to get rescued by the RAC while the gorgeous weather and surroundings teased us! If I hadn’t been in such an amazingly beautiful place I don’t know how I would have stayed so positive :) If you ever get a chance to go, please do – it is one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to!