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Recycled joy.
The pandemic has thrown up some strange anomalies. One is the requirement to make a booking to throw rubbish away. Our local tip, manned by binmen, or, to put it in modern, our recycling facility, assisted by colleagues, lies at … Continue reading
Smart remarks.
The world is divided into those who are adept at making a suitable retort and those who think of it three days later. The S&H has always fallen into the former category, I am usually in the latter, though one … Continue reading
The new normal
I had every intention of being funny today but it just isn’t in me. Naturally the stronger reverberations of the suicide in the wider family are going to take some time to die down. Many people will have lost a … Continue reading
A suicide in the family.
There is no getting past how difficult this blog is going to be to write and to read. I have included it in Dementia diaries because it belongs there. Let me say straight away to long-term readers that no one … Continue reading
Sculpting and mould making with Paperclay. 4.
Do not wait too long to rescue your sculpture from the mould. Ten minutes would be perfect. Gently work round with your fingers freeing the base, which you can see, from the embrace of the blue silicone. Sometimes, if your … Continue reading
Sculpting and mould making with paperclay 3.
Over the course of the lockdown, when I ventured out in my blue plastic gloves, I stopped wearing rings because it was pointless, and nail varnish, which sticks to plastic gloves and therefore is even more pointless. If you, like … Continue reading
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Sculpting and mould making with paper clay. 2
If you have read part 1, which, as blogs go, is the post down below this one, you know how to sculpt the body of the all-purpose-sitting animal. I refer you again to the photo at the top of the … Continue reading
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Sculpting and mould making with paper clay. 1
I’ve been sculpting some small animals and a doll in paper clay. I thought you might like to have a go too. When I began doll making over thirty years ago (I know – where does the time go?) it … Continue reading
Wad some po’or…….
The incomparable Mr Burns did remark that it would be interesting if we could see ourselves as others see us. It would, and, also, quite alarming. This morning, being Friday, is recycling day at the edge of the pavement. Round … Continue reading