WHEN BEANIE MET .....

Well the sim is closing and what a way to close than for the OQF owners to meet. When the six of us set out to do this it was about fun and friendship; had Jami and Wendy not been transatlantic they too would of been sat at our table drinking porn star martinis.

I can't even tell you how it happened but before you knew it a date was set. From that moment I felt slightly nauseous. I am not one for sentiment as you know readers but in essence I wanted them to like me. Pixels are pixels but those people we meet in SL as you grow close are a true reflection of the RL us. In principle I think I am liked in SL but RL is a another ball game.

So the day came when I had to stand at the rail station and wait for Evie. I saw about 5 Evies I thought. I have done blind dates with less nerves. I wore a red flower not as intention to be spotted well but because I am as girlie as SL. I was in a poppy skirt and the obligatory red shoes and there she was. We don't do hugs so it was a hiya and no eye contact. I just giggled all the way to the hotel. Then it was like we had always been friends. I see a different side to Evie more vulnerable if I wouldn't of married the chick, she was everything I hoped for chatty and well just my Evie. The hotel room said it all. Two chairs looking at a wall just fit for an Eric and Ernie sketch. Sitting in them drinking a bottle of wine and not even taking a breath as each breath would of replaced a word and that would of been a waste of a conversation! Those chairs were representative of sitting on the perch in OQF, where we would put the world to rights. Although in the middle of the night a screech from Evie "Eric is trapping my duvet" was somewhat disturbing, ha.

Then we went to meet Sam and Stav. We were late as I got lost as I am an exceptional halfwit and I wander; and I wandered one too many corners off the beaten track. Sam is too delightful for words. Cute as a button and as sweet as a sugary thingy. She is much more affectionate and welcomed us with open arms and a kiss. Stav of course wasn't there as like SL he would be late for his own funeral. That gave us chicks girl time and gossip. Sorry readers, not sharing!

Stav arrived and just like a sim meeting couldn't get a word in edge ways. He is gentle and kind and let us get on with it. When he spoke it was odd as I expected him to be spinning DJ requests. I constrained myself asking for Florence and the Machine.

It would of been easy to forget how we met as it was like we had known each other forever. Then in a bar it then reminded me of how we met. I felt I was sitting in Hyde. Random people standing around having fun then there he was. It was as though I had ordered a noob to commemorate our get together. There was no designated dancing spot but he was going hell for leather stuck in the same animation. He could definitely cover floor space quickly; had I known I would of hired him to wax on and wax off my wooden floors. The thing that just shouted noob was the back pack. There he was in a dancing animation with a back pack. He didn't ask for sex or a job but he was the epitome of those we set out to friend in SL as they start there journey. I don't think we were pissed enough to join in but the thought was there.

The night went on with cocktails, dancing, a jar of soy sauce up my leg and it was fun we all get on. I am sure we always will irrespective of what lies ahead.

When I started SL I didn't get it, if I am honest I still don't get it at times. However meeting the 3 people that I started a sim adventure with well it was truly lovely. For me I enjoyed their company and they were everything I hoped they would be. You will have to ask them what they thought of me, I have no doubt they think I am weird as they watched me keep putting money in a street entertainers box. One of those that stand for hours like a statue but smile when you pay them. As he blew a kiss every time he earned money, I thought aww that's just beautiful. Yes I am a halfwit but I don't care and after this weekend my name is still Beanie and not changed to Neveragain Resident.

One Quarter French Closing Event!!!

We do everything in style in One Quarter French....and that includes closing. So be prepared for our big closing event coming on Thursday 7th July.

First we will be at the Whirling Dervish for a 500 Linden contest and a mardi gras / carnivale theme from 12 - 2pm SLT with DJ Thom Macbain and host Wendlyn.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/One%20Quarter%20French/113/132/21


Then the party will move to Le Baiser Rouge where Eva Adored will be DJ for the big USO theme party from 2-5pm SLT so dig out your army uniforms and pin up chick gear for another 500 Linden prize
http://slurl.com/secondlife/One%20Quarter%20French/59/14/23


Finally you can dance out under the stars with DJ Noelle and host Yuisa at Cafe Du Monde from 6-8pm SLT with a Best in Stars & Stripes contest for yet another 500 Linden prize.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/One%20Quarter%20French/18/175/23

Wear as much or as little as you want - just come and hang out and help us say goodbye to our lovely little sim

Click the links below each for a landmark or watch the OQF group inworld for a reminder

Finally I would like to extend a massive thanks to Kyl Donogal for all his help in the sim and also in arranging this event.

Sad news for One Quarter French

The owners of the One Quarter French sim yesterday had to make the sad announcement that the sim was going to be closing.

When we first sat down all those months ago to decide what we were going to do and what (most importantly) we all wanted out of 'our sim' the general consensus was FUN. We didn't want to make piles of lindens or own an estate of sims.

We wanted somewhere relaxing, enjoyable and welcoming - and well, I believe we achieved that

However times move on and situations change - and some of the team found they were unable to be online as much due to their RL situation - and real life has always and will always be the most important thing of all.

I hope you will continue to follow this blog and that we will see you all around the grid still - I for one am moving back again to concentrate more on my voluntary work and of course being a big screen star.

So the curtain will fall on the sim but the main thing is - the friendships that started it all off still remain and actually have developed further - watch this space for an article on THAT to follow from Ickle Miss Beanie!!

So not goodbye - more like a bientôt!

Doctor Noob Premiere

Saturday in One Quarter French saw the Premiere of the much awaited SL film epic from BS Productions - Dr Noob.

This took Bunky Snowbear and myself about 7 weekends to film (him living upside down for some bizarre reason) and as almost the most fun I have ever had in SL to date.

Le Baiser Rouge was decorated with the customary red carpet and velvet ropes to hold back the paparazzi. Popcorn was fetched, gestures were muted and web wombats were kicked into action and so the show began.

A slightly green and sick looking Bunky waited with bated breath to get the crowds response...and phew they loved it.

The favourite scene was unanimously agreed to be 'the lift scene' and so the after-show party began

Fans queued up to have their photo taken with the star of the show James007 Resident aka Bunky and the paparazzi broke free and cameras flashed all over

Some photos for you of the fun...

Evie & Bunky wait nervously for the crowds

Evie in front of the big screen

Bunky & Evie pose for the paparazzi

One of the stars, Dana has her photo taken with Bunky

Bunky passes out with the pressure of stardom...or maybe one too many Martinis

Alec finally gets his photo taken with the star after a four hour queue and a flask of Bovril

If you missed out on the day then no panic - the full film will be up on Vimeo for another week

Dr. Noob from Bunky Snowbear on Vimeo.

My definition......

love (luv) noun

deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment or devotion to a person or persons

Love is.... a short word...over in but a moment. Almost said before the meaning is computed. How do you define it?

Well me - I define it very carefully. I think it is a vastly over used yet undervalued word. How many times a day is it said out of habit or expectation rather than true meaning and feeling?

I tend to be judged as being cold, heartless, frosty - I know I have had them all said. I say this isn't true. I just hold my love, affection and adoration in a very closely guarded place and I only show it when I believe it is truly meant and deserved. I don't flutter it around me like losing tickets at the Grand National. But then, when I freely give it to someone- don't you think it means so much more?

Love for me is more than a word. Its loving someone despite their smelly socks, curry breath or morning fart habit. Its seeing the bad side and adoring them anyway. This is why Second Life love is so hard for me to understand...in there we only get the good bits so how can love be tested to be true?

That brings me onto my next subject....

com·mit·ment (-mənt) noun

a pledge or promise to do something

In order to love someone you have to be committed to them. But again - this seems to be something that is promised frequently and broken as often.

For me being committed to something or someone is putting the needs of that person or that task at the top of our list. Its something else that seems to have been lost in the throwaway society we live in. More frequently it's more like 'I am totally committed to you (unless it's too much hassle for me then I will go pick up some noob at a sex beach and pixel pork her)'

Often in Second Life I think people fall back on the notion that 'It's just a game don't take it so seriously' notion when they want to back out of a commitment. For me ...it's only a game insofar as it's a crap load of fun. Otherwise every person is a human and has feelings and will be hurt when they are let down. So in my view...well I don't commit to anything I don't mean and fully intend to stick to.

Of course I know my views on love and commitment are not necessarily the SLers norm...I have to admit to feeling a bit of a freak on occasion...in fact I often worry its leading me towards another definition of the word...

v. com·mit·ted, com·mit·ting, com·mits

To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.

Now thats more like me!! Fancy the share of a cuddle coat anyone?

Who is this?

First person to
correctly guess, will be getting $200L !!




















If your name is Evie, Bean, Stavros or Kyl, you are not elegible to enter this competition
Sorry!

The name is Bond......

As some of you may know I have been busily occupied these last few weeks making a new Second Life machinima film with Director extraordinaire Bunky Snowbear.

It is set to be a comedy spoof Bond with plenty of action...we have just realeased the trailer so click below to check it out and watch this space for details of the full release.

RETURN OF THE OOMPA LUMPA

Well it will take me approximately an hour longer than what it should do to write this blog as I can guarantee I will of had to get up and ping my router roughly 15 times. Thinking positively at least I am exercising!! (I think that might be what psychiatrists call delusional)

Above is (pictured centre) Arse the ring leader who is interfering with my Internet and the other two (right) Bollocks Brain and (left) Halfwit, the ones that make up the triplets affectionately known as Telecoms.

I was lulled into a false sense of security with a couple of months of blissful Internet but now I have vanished once again. I can only be seen as a distant cloud typing random "g's" in local just to check I am actually online.

I am offering bribes to the engineer from beer, french fancies perhaps stuff you can get from 0898 numbers..to my American friends think dodgy phone lines that require you to sell a kidney to pay the bill.

Not having the Internet is making me discover new things like I have too many cobwebs on my ceiling, that I need to water my bamboo plant, and that tele really is rubbish.

However I did decide to manicure my trotters yesterday and sat with a face pack on whilst reciting new words that could be entered into a profanisaurus all preceded by the word Internet. I would divulge an example but I am already in fear that I may be in breach of profanity by referring to an oompa lumpa as Bollocks Brain.

I am frustrated that I can't get online but it is making me actually think about using my time constructively. Sometimes readers don't you think the minute you click your SL icon that time just seems to run away with itself? I am not castigating our love of bandwidth but have you actually dusted down your own cobwebs and treated yourself to a trotter makeover whilst shoving licorice allsorts in your gob. For a short interlude its not really that bad and once you have Columbo on well its excitement all the way!

Yes I am perhaps a glass half full girlie but all the shouting in the world won't fix me and I have an engineer that is as equally fed up with my fault as he arduously tries to fix it. So patience is apparently a virtue and as I work in health maybe its something that is inherent of me. (Although my dental hygienist has a look of Hannibal Lecter when scaling and polishing) .

I suppose what I am rabbiting on about is you won't catch me online whilst broken but I will return as chirpy as I left with lovely manicured trotters.

Being broken enforces me to dust off my Columbo box sets and that can't be half bad! (OK shurrup I am trying to keep a sunny disposition)

Note to Sister Cathy apologies for swear words but I have actually said more bedtime prayers whilst being cut off (and that's the truth)

My Daddy

'He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it'
Clarence Buddinton Kelland

When I was 4 my Daddy was a mystical person I only saw for half an hour a day who would alternately praise or scold me depending on my days behaviour.

By 8 he had become the focus of my world - and mostly our fights were over who exactly was meant to be looking after who.

By 14 he was the force stopping me from doing what I should be allowed to - it just wasn't FAIR!! And occasionally the person tidying up after my rebellious messes.

At 18 he was the one I suddenly realised actually might know a thing or two about life.

By 21 he was the example I used to show me how to live my life and the one thing I knew had shaped me into who I was.

By 24 my Daddy was the one thing I thought I could never live without and somehow had to learn how to.

And by my mid 30's he is the one person I would choose to be able to see. touch. hug and most of all be scolded by again.

I count myself lucky enough to have had such an amazing Dad for the time I did - and I know some people are not so lucky.

In just a couple of weeks time its Fathers Day. Not a day to buy an extortionate card or a pair of socks just because you have to. Should you be as lucky as I was, it's a day to feel and show your gratitude and appreciation for the wonderful job your Daddy has done. I will be doing the same.

Donogal & Kicn are in the Depraved Summer Nights Hunt

Our very own OQF store Donogal Designs and Kicn Kreations are featuring in the Depraved Summer Nights Hunt starting June 1st. Pop along to search out the fabulous freebie tucked away and also get hunt details and a landmark to the hunt starting point. Click the link for a direct slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/One%20Quarter%20French/108/88/23

My Rezz Day Party!!

Friday 20th May marked 2 years since I joined this crazy world....and well, I like to think I have made certain advances. OK I still zap myself across sim unexpectedly....take my skirt off with little warning and well my typing abilities are non-existent - but I at least consistently have hair (too much the wife may complain)

So on Saturday to mark the occasion my lovely fellow Frenchies organised a part-surprise party. The surprise being I found out when and where 2 minutes after the start.

Bean had sent loads of invitations winging their way to various mental asylums, and Sam and Stav had decorated the Whirling Dervish with various embarrassing photos I didn't know they had - and so the party began

Stav played an Evie mix of Chas & Dave, The Wurzels as well as some less popular hits and Fibi was hosting in her usual inimitable style - with extra cake in the mix for 'Light' & 'Blow' fun. Good job I am an expert at blowing *cough*

Wills got a hug from yours truly....Stew danced under the floor.....Kyl survived the Rapture....a successful night for all!

Happy 2nd Rez Day Evie !!!

Custom Birthday Card


designed by Jami Titanium for you Evie and with love from all of us
xxx

le Success!!

After 2 long weeks of trying to keep the re-design of the Whirling Dervish under wraps, The staff at One Quarter French were very pleased to unveil the new look and welcomed all their friends and new comers to the Grand Re-opening of the hottest new club on the sim! Having tirelessly tried to keep the progress secret, Stavros Jolbey and Samanda Renfold were thrilled, and even a little excited, to finally open the doors at 1PM SL on Saturday 14th May and were so pleased to watch all the 'VERY IMAGINATIVE' avi's stream in hearing ohhh'ing and ahhhh'ing from all.

The Party kicked off with DJ Stavros playing the latest club tunes and the party goers, which included a cupcake, pea, carrot, hippo, monkey, naked guy, some weird kind of bird, Prozac bottle, ladybird and pink dragon looking thing, to mention just a few started to party hard.

The Whirling Dervish now boasts a very new high tech look and feel, with neon lights and state of the art dance machines. We will be holding foam parties, bubble parties and just about any kind of themed party you could imagine. Now included in the club are advertising boards which, if you get there quick enough, you could place your ad up and be sure to be seen by all those that will be frequenting the club.

A competition for Most Fab Imaginative Avi was held and this was won by Tegan Emerald, (The very very cute Hippo), Daytona Coba (the fox with the tie) and Nasty (the weird looking bird) and $500L was split by a three way tie.

The sploder went red hot and at one stage was loaded with over $1000L and a few party goers left the Dervish with their virtual wallets a lot fuller than when they had come in.

The Prozac bottle DJ and the warrior Elf kept the music and the chat going till late into the night and the grand re-opening of the Whirling Dervish was determined to be a huge success. We look forward to having more of the same club parties each and every week and cannot wait to see you all again. Thank you to everyone who came and made this night the huge success that it was.

A Sneaky preview

GRAND RE-OPENING OF THE WHIRLING DERVISH

One Quarter French is pleased to announce that we are gearing up for the Grand Re-opening of the Whirling Dervish.

This is scheduled for this Saturday 14th May at 1pm SL time.

DJ Stavros will be playing all the music you love and yours truly, Samanda Renfold will be hosting.

Alongside the festivities, we will be holding a 'Most Fabulous Imaginative Avi' competition where you will stand the chance to win $500L.

Most exciting of all though, is the unveiling of the new club, which we promise will 'Rock You' in a way a nightclub is supposed to rock you! Expect to see a complete change to how it was before.
Expect Dark and Neon and ......well, I will stop there as I wouldn't want to give too much away!!

On behalf of all of us at One Quarter French, we look forward to seeing you there and cannot wait to have you party with us!

Additional schedules will be opening up so if you would like to DJ at the Whirling Dervish, or if you would like to host, please get in contact with myself or Stavros Jolbey by sending a Notecard inworld.

Luau Street Party at the Cafe du Monde!

You are formally invited to a Street Party, brought to you by DJ Aarons, Host Eva, and the rest of the Cafe du Monde staff!

5-8 pm SLT with 200L on the board for best in beachwear and 2100L in prizes

Simply Blue...

It amazes me sometimes how the simple things can be the most successful.  I have wanted to go "all out" with the cafe... themes which inter-played decor, music, and people... and yesterday found myself tuckered out and so just went with your basic Best in Blue competition.

Can I just say "Wow?"  DJ Noelle Magne made her debut and we had a fabulous (and steady) crowd all evening long. Her tunes were dead on and her mic voice was as smooth as silk. I kept the decor simple, but on a midnight setting in our already lovely cafe it was simply stunning.

Here are a few highlighted pics:

Best in Blue at Cafe du Monde tonight!

 Slight change in plans tonight!  It's my son's sweet 16, so "Jungle Fever" will be postponed.Instead...200L on the board at the Cafe du Monde tonight for Best in Blue!5-8 pm SLT with DJ NoelleSee you there!       

Lady Bug Note Generators

GI's & Pin-Ups at Le Baiser Rouge

Friday night at Le Baiser Rouge saw the amazing Eva Adored transform the venue into A GI army camp complete with morale building Pin Ups. There was 200L on the board with an extra 300L donated by the always generous Wills Wozniak for the Best in GI's & Pin Ups

Needless to say we twirled and we twittered and had a wonderful night with Eva Adored sending out fabulous tune after tune

Below are some snaps from the night

Crowd Shot

Bean & Daytona have a twirl

Moo & Wills danced all night




Bonky couldn't be with us so left his rather wooden replacement to twirl with Evie

The Royal Wedding at the Whirling Dervish

There is nothing like a good old Royal Wedding to get me in a party mood, and we felt it fitting to bring a little bit of the pomp and ceremony that has been celebrated in London (and the rest of the world) into New Orleans One Quarter French in SL and so we held our very own Royal Wedding at the Whirling Dervish last night. The invites went out to all Kings and Queens, princes and princesses, brides and grooms and the Dervish was transformed into a sea of white with beautiful dresses swishing back and forth.































It was truly a site to behold as one by one, the beautiful brides, princesses, dapper looking princes in their full military regalia and grooms arrived.

The competition board was opened and the Most Fabulous Royal Avatar was sought and $500L was won by our dapper looking Prince, Kyl Donogal, who wowed all the girls in his military uniform complete with hat and gloves. At one point he did try to leave, but one bride and one princess, who shall remain anonymous, grabbed onto his thighs and wouldn't let him go.

DJ and manager of the Dervish, Stavros Jolbey played music for the masses while his host, Princess Leia took excellent care of all the guests, passing champagne around the celebrate the occasion.






One of the guests who attended the party did so 2 hours before she was actually getting married in SL. She was a bag of nerves and fretted that the groom hadn't logged on yet. I do hope she managed to calm down and that the wedding went off without a hitch. This writer was also treated to a dance with a very smart looking fox and enjoyed a twirl on top of the DJ box with Daytona Coba.





The Whirling Dervish is now closed for refurbishment so do keep watch both here and in SL when we let you know that we are back open for business. We will be holding a massive opening party and invites will be sent out. We look forward to seeing the new, funky, New Orleans One Quarter French own night club.

Thank you to all who attended and I'm sure you all had as much fun as I did.