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

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

There is a bit of the Flu going around Adelaide at the moment.

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

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You smell! And they were CANBERRA people!

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Poor James. :( *offers the standard remedy - tea and sympathy*

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.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Heh! I must say that the one house I would buy in Sydney is a Deco mansion that looks like a cruise ship ...

The horseshoe idea has merit!

[absynthedrinker.livejournal.com]

I laughed and understood looking for cables. How sad that is.

*My family did banking for "Prominent Italian Families"

Peace,
Bubba

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yes, one warning is enough for a lifetime of mild caution XXX

[empress-jae.livejournal.com]

i wish i could come home to find a lump of clay in my mailbox. that's so cool!

*wonders off to search for local pottery class*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

We have a local drag show, too, and a French grocer. Truly a suburb of greatness.

[libby-drew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I could sculpt a horsie. But I might be inspired to sculpt something else.

I have no idea what.

None.

;-p

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You could sculpt one that belonged to a horsie, but I'm not sure there's enough clay.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

*pours virtual tea laced with lemon and honey*

I love the idea of sculpting little horses. All you need to do is roll a series of cylinders and stick 'em together.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I will pull out some of my old animal husbandry texts and study anatomy! And then roll some cylinders together ...

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

That is really quite kooky, even for your suburb!

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!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I am trying not to need a day off work, because we are understaffed and deadline is hell, but Friday may not be optional if J is any guide.

You should come round in October! I think it will be fun!

[bryoneybrynn.livejournal.com]

Oh! I'm just enough of a fluff-ball to think it's totally adorable that they're getting everyone to sculpt little horses - hurray for community! *is lame like that* Plus, Oct 11 is my fifth wedding anniversary, which has nothing to do with you or horses or the arts but it makes me smile when my anniversary coincides with other cool things. :)

I hope J feels better soon and you, vitamin C and bed rest!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think it's very cool, though, knowing my neighbours, there will be many very anatomically correct stallions.

[aldehyde.livejournal.com]

that is the coolest thing ever! i wish my neighbourhood would engage in interesting things like that :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It makes up for the fact you can;t chain your bike outside without having it stolen!

[khateh.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! If that were to happen where I live, we'd have a few well-organized groups stealing them and selling them two corners down ^_^

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

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

[beatnikspinster.livejournal.com]

Oh suck. Sorry about your throat/possible flu. :( Best of luck fighting it. *hands you lozenges*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

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

[maya231.livejournal.com]

Heal up. Your art project sounds fun--maybe we'll warrant a pic when it's done? :)

[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 ;-)

[violetage.livejournal.com]

ugh, this flu thing must be international or sommat cause i have it too and it is no fun!

Horse sculpting sounds like it may be fraught with hilarity and i would totally have checked for wires too.

[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!

[tomatoe18.livejournal.com]

Get better soon, you and James both. *sends another one of those warm and fluffy hugs*

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.)

[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 ;-)

[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

[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.

[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

:sends you the anti-flu charms:

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

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Thanks, alas, is flu.

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

[prilbrum.livejournal.com]

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

[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.