A picture paints a thousand

Been meandering through more paper art; loving the way different media inspire and effect each other. Really enjoyed Su Blackwell's work:



Words and light interacting in delicate, evocative scenes - who wouldn't be enthralled!

Death and Mousse

Tum de dum... so the nice folk at the Oxford Text Archive released a little batch of medieval texts for me to download (many of the archived texts are freely available, but some are restricted for... I don't know, those with a licence to research). Anyhoo, I spent this morning reading versions of 'The Debate between the Body and the Soul' (sticking with the death theme today). It's a Ronseal poem; does exactly what it says on the tin. A body is dying, its soul appears, and there's a last minute what-on-earth-were-you-thinking conversation.

And then to the Ars Moriendi, the Art of Dying Well. And of all the medieval treatises you may find yourself perusing, this is the genre with the best how-to images.


But that was then. At present, I and my kitchen are flecked with ras-a-bee and white chocolate mousse. The vast majority of said mousse remains in the mixing bowl, but there's some cleaning to be done!

Have a scrumptious weekend :-)
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PS - Probably shouldn't have mentioned mousse. For those friends travelling down, who may be fostering expectations: there will be no mousse on arrival. Mousse distribution is imminent. Sorrr-eeeeee...

Sand tales

For the first few seconds of this film I was kinda dismissive, thinking 'It's purdy, but we can all doodle...'

And then the Sand Whirler continued... and I was disabused of my notions, and happily so.