“You busy?”
I flick the phone onto speaker, my hands are otherwise occupied. “Just a bit.”
“What’re you up to?”
“Sticking pasta in a beard.”
There is a long silence on the other end of the phone…
“Could you repeat that?”
“You probably heard me right.”
“I’m pretty sure I didn’t.” His startled tone makes me laugh. “Whose beard?” I can practically picture my son’s thoughts… he sports a rather magnificent beard of his own these days. Then I hear the shift as the light dawns. “Isn’t it a bit early for that?”
No, it is not too early, and even if it were, it would be worth it to have had that conversation. The annual workshop is barely past and we still have eleven months till the next April workshop, so yes, we have plenty of time to gather, make and play with props and costumes. We shouldn’t actually need many props next year, and the costumes will be simple enough, but the ones we do need have to be right. I’d rather start early, with the bits I am doing, and give myself plenty of time to start over if I make a mess. And, to be honest, I love this part of the process and couldn’t wait to get started.
And then, there is the whole time thing. It flies, these days. There are always workshops coming up, even though those we run in the landscape do not take much preparation in terms of making things, there is still research, planning and writing to be done. The time in between just seems to run away.
Our next workshop, in Dorset, is just a month away. Stuart and I have already been there for a research trip and work is ongoing, organising, writing and planning how best to illustrate the phenomenon of the mysterious patterns in the landscape.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing 🙂
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Goodness you have a busy year! I hope you are fitting in the Bloggers Bash! By the way I have already asked Old father time for an extension and he said NO WAY!! 💜
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No, I won’t be at the Bash this year… I’ll be in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and over Cheshire way, with more than enough driving for a couple of days…no way I can make it back for the Bash and still be standing 😦 xxx
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That’s a shame but you can’t be two places at once 💜💜
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Sadly not… though I keep trying to be 😉 x
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Not easy is it 💜💜
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I’m working on it 😉 x
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Well done you 💜
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Thanks, Viv xxx
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Thanks, Michael 🙂
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My goodness you’re a busy bee Sue 😉 xx
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LL…and that’s without all the travelling we dofor the meetings, and two of us still have to go to work 😉 x
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You must have roller skates attached to your feet, lol 🙂 xx
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I feel like it sometimes 😉 xxx
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🙂 x
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I’m trying to get a visual on the pasta beard thing and failing. Do you, um, bake the pasta or just let it dry out? Wouldn’t that make it a bit fragile? Never mind. I’ll wait for photographs.
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It’s all a bit hush hush at the moment… but there willl be pictures, eventually 😉
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