Saturday, May 15
Today has been a good day. Unfortunately, these are quite rare. Suggestions on how to up the quotient are more than welcome. Anyway, I woke up late and the day was what could only be described as "glorious". I lazed around a while, cleaned my bathroom for the first time since I've lived here, had some lunch and then went out. First I went to the charity shop-warehouse thing at the bottom of the road, where I picked up a copy of
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? and
The Sexual Life of Catherine M for a grand total of 60p. Then I went off to this thing up the road. I call it a thing because that's the best word for it. I suppose you could call it a mini-fete, but basically it was a bunch of people offering different exciting things to do to anyone who wanted to do them. Susie from Swarthmore was there, making pottery tiles. There was weaving and knitting, face painting, henna tattoos, tai kwondo, tai chi, colouring in, "guess the fruit", badge making, dancing and willow basket making.
Oblong had a stall there, and one of their members tried to persuade me to come along and get involved. I said I'd love to but I don't have the courage, or friends to come with me. I'll see about going though, especially over the summer. They do some very ace things. Plus the woman said I had funky hair. Encyclomaedia were there too. Well, Mark was at least, selling copies of the second issue of their magazine. I bought a copy from him and we had a bit of a chat. Swapped phone numbers again, and he promised to ring me if something exciting was happening. I spent most of the day making a willow basket though. We were meant to make them into lanterns eventually. You could make a pyramid shape, or a sphere. I thought a pyramid would be easier, but it ended up all lopsided. The Egyptians would be appalled at me. They had some special wet strength tissue paper or somesuch, which we were meant to cover the frame with, but I was suspicious that it wouldn't dry in time, so I decided to bring mine home without a cover, and to try and make one from scraps of material I have laying around. Andy from Swarthmore turned up later on, and he made a giant fish from the willow branches. I ended up helping him a bit, as he only has one arm, so was having a bit of difficulty, and at the end, he gave it to me and I brought it home. I'm gonna try to attach it to my shower rail, to give people The Fear when they're on the toilet.
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