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The great brain robbery
Jun. 11th, 2011 09:25 pmMy mother is keeping a list of all the books she reads this year. She's up to number sixty so far. Sixty! She must be reading historical mysteries as fast as they can print them.
She told me this on the way to Port Fairy to go to MADE, a craft collective. There weren't a lot of exhibitors, but what was there was lovely. There was a guy making amigurumi plants and a woman with handmade notebooks and not one but two women knitting funky teacosies.
After that we went to the Koroit Lions Club annual art show, via a quick spin round Tower Hill to look at whatever wildlife was out and about (emus and swans, and lots of frogs to be heard). The art show was in the old Koroit Theatre. I'm not sure if it's still in use as a theatre; I hope it is because it's quite a nice old building. While Mum went to the loo, I poked around in the foyer and found some old signs behind the shiny silver bar: one with some dates on it and a handpainted one for the Koroit Swimming Pool. Once we went into the theatre itself, the art show was good. There are some talented people about. They gave out slips to vote for a People's Choice winner. My vote came down to a choice of two: what I want to call a botanical illustration but of three black cockatoos rather than a plant, if that makes sense, and an oil painting of a local beach that looked like the artist had based it on the Google Earth view. I went with the cockatoos in the end.
Do you ever reconsider something? Something that didn't make any sense and then you come back to years later and realise what a great thing it is? I have recently re-evaluated my feelings about nail cutters and have decided that they're marvellous. I don't know how I've struggled by with little nail scissors all these years. Oh, the regrets.
She told me this on the way to Port Fairy to go to MADE, a craft collective. There weren't a lot of exhibitors, but what was there was lovely. There was a guy making amigurumi plants and a woman with handmade notebooks and not one but two women knitting funky teacosies.
After that we went to the Koroit Lions Club annual art show, via a quick spin round Tower Hill to look at whatever wildlife was out and about (emus and swans, and lots of frogs to be heard). The art show was in the old Koroit Theatre. I'm not sure if it's still in use as a theatre; I hope it is because it's quite a nice old building. While Mum went to the loo, I poked around in the foyer and found some old signs behind the shiny silver bar: one with some dates on it and a handpainted one for the Koroit Swimming Pool. Once we went into the theatre itself, the art show was good. There are some talented people about. They gave out slips to vote for a People's Choice winner. My vote came down to a choice of two: what I want to call a botanical illustration but of three black cockatoos rather than a plant, if that makes sense, and an oil painting of a local beach that looked like the artist had based it on the Google Earth view. I went with the cockatoos in the end.
Do you ever reconsider something? Something that didn't make any sense and then you come back to years later and realise what a great thing it is? I have recently re-evaluated my feelings about nail cutters and have decided that they're marvellous. I don't know how I've struggled by with little nail scissors all these years. Oh, the regrets.