I’m currently ‘on vacation’, which in my case usually means that I do what I usually do …

… but in a different location …

… on a dodgy internet connection …

That said, it’s always nice to get away, and I am not complaining when I find myself in the middle of this landscape …

.. . even if it’s been raining rather a lot since I arrived.

So my inworld time is both limited in time and diminished in quality this week. Which, of course, is no bad thing.

While I might not be around all that much, planning for the future at Furillen goes on. I am still hoping that KT Syakumi will be making some custom builds for the sim – in particular, one (or both) of these …

While KT focuses on the job of replicating the real Furillen in Second Life – she made the sim’s pier look uncannily close to the real thing – a number of the sim’s buildings are prefabs that merely echo what I imagine is the ‘spirit’ of the real place.

The building I announced yesterday – Bar Cafe Fabriken – is a combination of both. It is being adapted from an existing Second Life build by Micky Siamendes, but as you will see when it opens on 9 April 2016, the bar has been given a distinctive Furillen identity.

Micky and I thought about making the bar just for a blues night, but because we like it so much the plan now is to make it a feature of the sim, and to hold regular music events there.

I’ll be giving out details of the launch night in due course. But for now, I’ll leave you with a delicious clue …