Bost the exhibitions are closed now and saved up in my spare room. I am so glad so many people have seen them. what is very exciting is the people who are inviting to Liz Clarke and to me about how they can use them.
Tom and I are showing the films at the Cube in Bristol and be open for a Q and A
This time Fudo and I have been out dancing with more wordsmiths, and the slippers have been off the feet with quite a right flip.
My friend was searching mentally for a word…. She said ‘I can’t remember you know the word .. when the paper you give people give at the theatre…… ‘ I said it ‘The programme’ She said ‘yes and…. I said ‘The first time in two and half years…I knew it …..the word before you |
My friend Pete who is writing short stories and we have a regular coffee. He asked me if we could have a conversation with his son, who wanted some background for his seventies novel – for a setting in London where I had lived in Camden town and Central London.
These some of the topics goods, places to go , events, places to note, housing for working people, housing , heating, the rich and poor, attitude, racism, pubs |
It made a wonderful afternoon of varied story talking of the past. With Pete and I given those topics with the talk coming and moving like textile scarves. I have been and I still look perhaps to be a source again if possible…. We shall see.
I have been sewing and knitting over Christmas holidays and making two hand puppets, and an embroidered cushion for my sister. A hat for my son and a special ‘shouting hat’ for my brother.
I’m thinking the need for a holiday…
The Terms for Convalescence
My health might come back
I still long for comfort
a bath chair
gentle seaside promenades
wrapped in a blanket
against the mildest breeze
tea, perhaps in tea rooms
and invalid diets
I’m like my ancient aunt
troubled over her opals
slippery elm drinks at bedtime.
Are bedjackets, bedsocks still made ?
they had a function once
and I knitted them for others
shall I begin for me….
This idea fades as I gain strength
but it as antiquated as a cure
the electronic wishes are fine.