ARGH!

[blamebrampton]

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.

Comments

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Wow. Now I'm wishing I lived there. I always wanted to try sculpting ever since I was small and my dad took me to the house of a potter who also did artsy things out of clay.

still don't understand that about the cables, though

[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

:sends you the anti-flu charms:

Other than that, public arts festival!!! :wants it:

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Our thieves only steal bicycles, and power tools from sheds ;-)

[khateh.livejournal.com]

We had toilet paper stolen from the office building where I work. There is no limit to what they'll take.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the virtual lozenges, have been sucking on their actual friends.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

If it's good, there will be a pic. If it's rubbish, there will be an amusing anecdote about my lack of talent ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

*Sends you lozenges and tissues for the runny nose that will follow in a few days*

I am hoping to discover inner talent. That or an amusing way to depict my lack of talent!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear! And yes, I reached the collapsing stage today. Bleargh.

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 ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You'd love it here, if you like small houses and railways!

And I grew up in the age of IRA bombing campaigns, when semtex and cables often arrived in the post.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Thanks, alas, is flu.

But I'll take loads of pix of the festival. I am already excited!

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

I see......damn, that almost gave me a bunny. Could be averted in time. *phew*

[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I am already excited!


:g: I'll bet! I know I'd be :)

You think there'll be people who couldn't resist the major temptation of first thought prOn and created horseys with ...ah... enviable body parts? :g:

[prilbrum.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful idea!! The horse sculpting, that is. I hope you feel better soon.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You know, this was the first thing that occurred to me, and in this neighbourhood, it will happen!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I'll take photos and you can either marvel at my secret genius or, more likely, have a jolly good giggle at my ineptitude.

[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

first thing that occurred to me

:laughs: Well. I don't know what it says about me, but after four years in fandom, I am pretty certain I can see sexual subtext in, say, the colour of the paint someone used on their front door. Of course the inaproprite thoughts are the first to arrive! :g: Also, living in such a neighbourhood seems well worth keeping the bikes inside...

[maya231.livejournal.com]

We win either way then :)