1ssue 11

1ssue 11 has had a good response so far with everyone seeming to be pleased with it all. I really enjoyed the editorship of this one, the work seemed to go together really well. It had quite a wacky feel this time.

Some fabulous women, I admire and wish I could be like...

All my adult life I have loved Bette Davis, I think it goes back to watching all those black and white films with my Nana, eating Turkish delight curled up on the sofa on a wet Saturday. I love the smoking and the tart wit, she is always so fantastically sarcastic and wicked. I do have a sharp tongue myself, and maybe I identify with her for that. One of my favourit actresses of all time is Louise Brooks, who could not love her - so beautiful, and the others are just gorgeous, grown-up women with opinions and attitude that goes beyoond their looks, and they are inspirational for me. I want to grow old like them, still sexy, still funny and not afraid to express myself.

Elizabethtown

We got this film out of the video shop last night. I really enjoyed it. It has had some fairly stinky reviews, but it was really lovely without being schmaltzy, and the soundtrack was excellent. Reminded me how cool Susan Sarandon is. She is one of my major role models.

CelticKiwi

CelticKiwi

Balloon Juggling balls

This weekend, we made juggling balls with A. Nathan seems more interested in the actual learning to juggle bit though. They are really easy and satisfying to make. You need some good balloons, a funnel and some rice, along with a pair of sharp scissors.
1. Firstly inflate balloon to size of required ball and fit over the mouth of a funnel. (this can be improvised with a plastic drink bottle).
2. Pour in rice to fill to the required size.
3. Cut off top of balloon, rest carefully on surface.
4. Cut neck off another balloon and stretch over first to cover hole.
5. Continue up to about 5 layers

Last few layers you can cut more holes in the balloons so that the other colours show through.

Morning Coffee and art

Every weekend E and I like to get together for Coffee and gossip, recently our favourite haunt has been the Washington Gallery as I am a Penarth Lady now, and the Washington Gallery is so nice. We get to look at all the nice and awful paintings, admire the jewellry and ceramics and drink nice coffee, whilst catching up on all the trials and tribulations of the week just gone. E usually has some fantastically dire stories to tell me about work, and I fill her in on the vagaries of family life as it is lived in the W household.
Yesterday we also decided to vist the Turner House Gallery and see what was going on there. Downstairs I was thinking "Oh God, another boring installation, but then we went upstairs and saw the film, and I got the whole point.



Here is a bit I found about the artists:

Paul Harrison and John Wood

John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working collaboratively in video since 1993. Their work is an on-going collection of experiments, a kind of reference catalogue of diagrams researching human size, scale and movements in relation to the immediate surrounding space and architecture. They combine elements of performance and sculpture and exploit the dynamic, often comic, possibilities to be generated from a set of precisely articulated events and actions.
"Since they began collaborating in 1993, John Wood and Paul Harrison have created a series of playful and beguiling video works which are distinguished as much by their droll sense of humor as their unerring economy of execution. Played out against a minimalist, monochrome backdrop, or within the sealed off space of the monitor itself, each of the works involves the presence of one or both of the artists, either as the butt of an extended site-gag or as the trigger for a spiraling, visually-surprising conceit."
—Leeds International Film Festival 2000

Summer garden

The weather is gorgeous and yesterday evening when everyone was out I had my supper in the garden and then took some pics. It is all growing like mad just now. There seems to be a colour theme, which has been largely unintentional but just shows how much you go for certain things. I do try to think of what plants are already there and what will look good with the existing planting. The lilies are fantastic and monstrous - I have to keep then under control, otherwise they will block the light from the little plants underneath.

Some wedding pics

20th May 2006- Fabulous day! What more can I say. These pics were taken by my proud dad, who cried, as I knew he would. My lovely mum cried too, but that is to be expected. I don't think I did cry, but I was just in a happy daze the whole day and it was bliss to have all those beloved people around us, and it was like a party, which was what we wanted.





My hair was falling down all day until I had had enough and took it all out. Millions of pins!! Don't we all look happy!

St. Ives Food

Just thought I would take some time to let you know about the gorgeous food that we ate in St. Ives. This is such an important part of our visits to Cornwall, sitting in Cafes and restaurants, whiling away the time and chatting- I love it.



The Blue Fish
P had: Panfried Megrim Sole with a white wine sauce
I had: Sea Bass with a crab crust and red pepper coulis (the coulis was gorgeous and the fish was really lovely, esp the crab)

Onshore
P had: Rocket and Olive Pizza
I had: Roast vegetable Pizza
And we shared a starter of Chargrilled Mackerel fillets which were fantastic.

The Wave
P had: Pan fried Halibut on baby fennel and leeks with a saffron and smoked haddock chowder
I had: Grilled John Dory, with roasted artichoke mash, chargrilled asparagus with vanilla and lime butter (this came with chopped tomatoes and flat leaf parsley.
This feast was followed by the best cheesecake I have ever tasted. Mango and Passion fruit.