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James has had flu since the weekend. I have a rough, sore claggy throat. GLARE!
In happier news, I live in the best suburb ever.
I came home to find a lump of something cold wrapped in plastic in the letterbox. I checked for cables*, then lifted it out. It was a lump of clay. There was a brochure to explain it. This years public art festival is celebrating the horse, and they would like everyone to sculpt little horses, which will then be fired and displayed in October.
In addition, we will have horse and cart rides on October 11 and a horse parade on October 18!
Now all I need to do is not succumb to the flu, and learn how to sculpt in the next few days!
* My family do law and politics and I am from the 70s and 80s, this is automatic, much the same way that years of living in Australia sees me shake out my shoes every morning.
In happier news, I live in the best suburb ever.
I came home to find a lump of something cold wrapped in plastic in the letterbox. I checked for cables*, then lifted it out. It was a lump of clay. There was a brochure to explain it. This years public art festival is celebrating the horse, and they would like everyone to sculpt little horses, which will then be fired and displayed in October.
In addition, we will have horse and cart rides on October 11 and a horse parade on October 18!
Now all I need to do is not succumb to the flu, and learn how to sculpt in the next few days!
* My family do law and politics and I am from the 70s and 80s, this is automatic, much the same way that years of living in Australia sees me shake out my shoes every morning.
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Date: 2008-08-27 12:37 pm (UTC)But this time last year we had Sydney people bring it to us, so it was our turn to send it back ;-)
runs and ducks for cover
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Date: 2008-08-27 12:51 pm (UTC)Ah yes, a nice lump of C4 in the mailbox is always an attention getter. >.> Do you know, except for my gumboots, which lived in the stables, I have very rarely shaken my shoes out, and I've lived on properties most of my life. Maybe us bush kids just aren't as fussed by something in our shoes, or figure that anything in there is going to suffer when we stick out feet in anyway. :D
You could settle for just sculpting a horseshoe, and declare is an existential interpretation of the horse, depicted by it's most basic symbol of servitude to mankind ...
I never did understand existential, anyway. *wink*
Do you know, I saw a house advertised on realestate.com.au today - using the tag line 'Go to the NGV and see the exhibition, then buy this house'
I just thought that might make you smile. Be well. That's not a suggestion.
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Date: 2008-08-27 12:57 pm (UTC)The horseshoe idea has merit!
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Date: 2008-08-27 12:53 pm (UTC)*My family did banking for "Prominent Italian Families"
Peace,
Bubba
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:06 pm (UTC)*wonders off to search for local pottery class*
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:26 pm (UTC)I have no idea what.
None.
;-p
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:27 pm (UTC)I love the idea of sculpting little horses. All you need to do is roll a series of cylinders and stick 'em together.
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:34 pm (UTC)Be careful of air bubbles in the joints between the legs and the body: I did a whole set of pottery horses in art class way back in early high school and pretty much all their legs exploded off in the kiln :(
I hope the two of you feel better soon!
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:36 pm (UTC)You should come round in October! I think it will be fun!
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Date: 2008-08-27 01:54 pm (UTC)I hope J feels better soon and you, vitamin C and bed rest!
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Date: 2008-08-28 01:14 am (UTC)Horse sculpting sounds like it may be fraught with hilarity and i would totally have checked for wires too.
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Date: 2008-08-28 03:37 pm (UTC)I am hoping to discover inner talent. That or an amusing way to depict my lack of talent!
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Date: 2008-08-28 03:29 am (UTC)I remember when I had the flu, I was working on the HD Inspired fic, and I nearly collapsed a few times staying up to type. ^^;;
I checked for cables
Cables? As in, what cables? :O (Sorry, you know I'm from the 80s and 90s. So, yes. I don't know these things and need to be told.)
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Date: 2008-08-28 03:44 pm (UTC)As for the cables ... when I was a wee lass terrorism was different. It usually came with Irish accents in my part of the world and was generally directed at political figures or senior members of the legal fraternity. Most of the time it was quite distant, bomb threats on the tube and tragic attacks in Northern Ireland, but on a couple of notable occasions it was relatively close, and it was explained to me that one should always check suspicious packages and so on. Lumps of clay in the letterbox are weird enough to warrant a check ;-)
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Date: 2008-08-28 08:04 am (UTC)still don't understand that about the cables, though
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Date: 2008-08-28 03:44 pm (UTC)And I grew up in the age of IRA bombing campaigns, when semtex and cables often arrived in the post.
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Date: 2008-08-28 11:42 am (UTC)Other than that, public arts festival!!! :wants it:
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Date: 2008-08-28 03:45 pm (UTC)But I'll take loads of pix of the festival. I am already excited!
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