matt-h-mitchell

There are only two things in my life that I have any lasting regret about. One, as I’ve mentioned in a past journal, is that I regret giving up competition swimming just as I was starting to make a habit of winning races. The other takes a bit more explanation: Before my boy was born, my wife and I used to go to see her cousin’s five kids two, sometimes three times a week. We would take the three eldest off for day trips onto Dartmoor, to Paignton, Looe, various beaches, have a lot of fun and treat the kids pretty much as our own. Truth be told, I think Sarah and I were getting in practise for when our own children came along. As t

Knock knock... who's there? Matt... Matt who??? Noooooooo!!! :cries: D'you know, I wouldn't blame you if you honestly did reply "Matt who" because my activity on dA in the last few months is practically ghostly... I'm sort of there and you're possibly aware of me, but you just can't see me! But that's OK because this last month in particular has been bloody ridiculous work-wise for me, and while I won't bore you with what a hard worker I am, it's been a real balls-to-the-wall period for my department. Most of us worked three straight weeks, broken up by the odd half-day off, and it felt like every day was a deadline. It's not the sort of pre

Damn, has it really been a month since my last journal? *sigh* Oh well, put it down to my firm belief that if you have nothing to say, you should say nothing. Doesn't make me much fun at parties I can tell you. :giggle: This time round I'm featuring the works of a great devmate of mine, BriceChallamel (https://www.deviantart.com/bricechallamel). I'll let his pictures save me a thousand words and do their talking for themselves. Needless to say, he's an effing genius and if you can't figure out immediately what's going on in his pictures, it's definitely worth taking the time to look a little closer! Oh yeah, two pieces of news... well, three actually but I'll get to the third in