Zombie...cakes?

Having a COD: Zombies party? Walking Dead marathon? Zombie themed birhday party? Then these cakes are what you want!

These are just a selction of my favorite designs, taken from google. I will one day have a go to bake one myself!

Caught our Eye

Here are just a few things that have caught our eye over the past few days.

1. Fantasy Flights Relic: Talisman and Warhammer 40k mixed together all in one game? How can things get any better? How about it comes out at the end of this year? This is the most anticipated game EVER for me, and from everything I have seen, looks very promising. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
2. Wargames Factory Zombie Vixens: Zombie women for your games. I don’t think we have to say any more than that apart from “just take my money!” http://wargamesfactory.com/
   
   
   
   
3. 
   Model Maq Workshop Briefcases: Now the zombie take some money, but these take every last penny that I own. A paint studio that packs up into a briefcase? I want one. I don’t need one, but I want one. http://www.modelmaq.es/
   

Zombie Walk 2012, Birmingham UK

"Confirmed outbreaks of a Zombie Virus in Birmingham city centre UK #zombie #breakingnews"

That was my first and only twitter post yesterday. That and my phone died really early on in the day, it was getting into the theme of the day. And what a day it was.

The zombie walk is a charity walk, raising vital money for the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Brainchild of Jamie Chapman, this is yearly event where the city centre is taken over by a host of zombies, and this year the numbers were well into the thousands I would say.

Right, Me, Middle, the other half Lisa, and left Lisa's sister Shell

 

It all starts at 10am, when people start meeting in the park behind the ICC. This years, Monster energy drink were sponsoring the event, so free cans of Monster were being given to everyone (most likely wanting to create rage zombies..) Here as well is where all the talented artists gather to paint the faces of the willing. These artists take the time to to this for free, and as a customer you have to pay but all that money then goes to the charity, so big props to those talented people who volunteered.

After you have had your face painted, the music is playing, and then we just hung out with all the other zombies until the walk actually started.

I wish I had taken more pictures of this event, but enjoyed myself so much that I forgot. The other half took some pictures, so I will post them in a later post.

The walk itself started at 4pm, after a talk from Jamie Chapman himself about the walk, and he got all the undead fired up. The route was straight through the centre of Birmingham, through Paradise Forum, through Colmore Row, down to New Street, past the Bull Ring, then back up and through the Oasis Market, and finished at the Birmingham Ballroom (which used to be the Carling Academy) for the after party to begin. Quite far for a large group of shambling zombies, I would agree, but all for the greater good.

I just cannot even begin to imagine what the public thought. It is quite a big event, but you would not know about it unless you were taking part, as it seems quite underground. There were looks of shock, people pointing, a small amount of abuse from narrow minded people, but mostly it was camera phones and laughing from the public. I can only imagine You tube and Facebook's servers must have gone mad during that hour.

All in all a fantastic day, and we shall defiantly be back there next year. Sorry about the lack of pictures, I will do better next year!

Go to www.facebook.com/birminghamzombies and like the page for all the pictures from this years, plus when the time comes, the details of Zombie Walk 2013.

“When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth” - Dawn of the Dead