Jan 2018 harry potter (2)I kept this guy in the photo to provide a sense of scale. This model, is HUGE!

So you're going to have to excuse me because this post is way more personal than it is professional and about the equivelent of holiday snaps if I ever went on holiday, which I don't, so just give me this one, alright? 

So it's going to be my 30th birthday in a few days and since I've spent just about my entire life giving myself reasons not to do the things I want to do, particularly if they were frivolous expenses I decided that in celebration of my birthday, I was going to take myself some places.

And we only went to chuffing Hogwarts!

I know, I'm still pretty excited about it too, because how often does a childhood novel get to be so popular that it turns into a cinema franchise that builds a tour of its sets that you can visit? And builds them in the UK no less. Not often.

So we went, and it took forever and it snowed, but I got to see my beautiful friend Becky who I never ever see, and Hogwarts was dusted with snow, and the forbidden forest, and Diagon Alley and about a million other things I can't possibly describe because you really do have to see it for yourself.

It's was magic.

Jan 2018 harry potter