Eden Jolly // Journal

 

Clout casting postponed till next month.

The Clairmont Ferrand group departed with various items in a variety of metals and left behind an air of sadness, regret, and photographs on the computer desktop of themselves sunbathing next to a snowdrift somewhere in the hills above Lumsden.

Sadness at the departure come in particular from lovestruck locals who danced the night away with one of the demoiselles at the Lumsden hop, and all who met Remi will be kicking themselves that they missed opportunity to get thier hair cut by him in his own stylish French Mode, a.k.a. "Le bol de pudding"

I was trying to think of who he reminded me of post haircut and it suddenly came to me last night, , Edmund  Blackadder.

Meanwhile, back at the SSW ranch refurb work is going ahead with alacrity. It has been grand fun watching excitedly as each of the roof panels is removed revealing more and more ancient honeycombed timbers hovering above decayed and crumbling stonework, and at each reveal, we gasp as a great cloud of Woodworm dust spreads forth, darkening the skies of rural Aberdeenshire. This state of disrepair after around 70 years of neglect appears to have come as a complete surprise to some people but not at all to others.

SSW and our Aberdeenshire Council Determined to Succeed partner, Lumsden Primary school hosted some P4-5 sprogs from Riverbank school in Aberdeen for half a day of ceramic firing and cuttlefish casting in the great outdoors and guess what, yes it was snowing. Thanks are due however to the biting North wind which meant that it was not snowing all of the time. The project went well and Kelly posted some photographs of the event on the website somewhere in which I look exceedingly monk-like if you get my tonsorial drift.

The marvellous William of Whitespace has brought some of his esteemed colleagues to SSW, and they are currently loose in the foundry working on a community project for Mastricht. We will be poring the fruits of thier labour next week which will be entertaining, also on the metal front we aim to pour Chris Bailey's iron pieces on Friday. Every time we have set a date to pour iron this year it has resulted in a few days of horizontal snow, but not this time. please!

On a personal note we have finally completed our postdiluvial move back into our house. I was bringing some paintings and sculpture down from the loft space and noticed something, first down was a painting by  Kiril Sokolov, next was an Alex Main portrait bust then a drawing by Fred Bushe. All three of them good friends, and all three dead.

I am not superstitious but in light of the sequence I will not tell you was next out of the loft in case Will Maclean or Arthur Watson  are reading this.

Oooops.

Only Joking!!!!!I

It was by some bloke called Picasso.

Amazing what you can find at Thainstone Mart.

 

 

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