Hello KFH here, well i’ve had an amazing few weeks in SL. I was kindly offered a free plot on a group owned island called Scion which is run by the Millions of Us organisation. They were the people who hooked me up with Robbie Dingo, and as a result of this union, they offered me a place to build my ‘typical British Pub’. I wanted to build a project based on ‘real life’ community as SL is about Community so thought it might be a nice touch. The Queens Head is one of the best pubs I know, and occasionally I drink there, as I would sit there over my glass of Merlot KFH would start coming out in me and i’d start thinking, OOh that is a nice texture, and oooh, I wonder how I could re-build that virtually etc.. Then one day I asked John the barman if I could perhaps build his pub. He looked at me as though I was completely insane but in a nice way of course, as he is a very nice and reputable Pub man. Then a few days later he approached me saying ‘You know that idea you had, well perhaps you could try it out’. I was a bit nervous at first approaching ‘Lisa’ his fiancee, as she is the ‘boss’ and keeps that pub ship shape, and it’s her pride and joy, so I wanted to make sure she was ok with it also. As the pub is owned by ‘Fullers’ which is a very posh and successful end of the business, Lisa said it was ok to try out, but to not make an exact replica as they are a bit funny about things like that. I am hoping that Fullers will see what I have done and then give me an island to build some of their ‘finest’ pubs on. My building has come on leaps and bounds, but I still need to correct a few things on it. It’s taking me ages to do, and when I go to the pub now, I find myself sitting in different areas of it, and really memorising the layouts, textures, and trying to get it right. It’s going to take quite a while to get right. I’ve given it a Christmas theme, as it’s almost the holiday season, so there is snow outside and it has a cosy fire going. The other day Douglas Gayeton skyped me just as I was about to quit the machine, and I briefly saw a message’ Ringo is coming into SL’.. my computer quit before I had a chance to reply, so I quickly logged back in and said ‘Who is Ringo?, Ringo star or Robbie Dingo? turns out it was Molotov Alva! I FREAKED, I logged into SL, and added Douglases alias whose name I will not make public, and teleported MOLOTOV to the pub. I was absolutely over the moon to have such a prestigious visitor and insisted we have our pics taken by the bar.
It’s funny to think that a while back I was on IM to Gayeton, saying I’m down the local pub as I had my laptop with me, and now he has visited the pub and knows what I was talking about.I hope to finish it soon and then present it to John and Lisa who run the real pub.