Thursday I headed off to Bristol with the lovely Nick Short, the aim - to read poetry at the Art House. We had a little bit of trouble finding it, the Art House is a lovely little cafe with a cellar/entertainment area. There are arty pictures on the walls and yummy foods to be had.
There were some wonderful musicians playing, I especially liked the Vampire guy though I failed to get a photo of him 🙂
We bumped into an old friend from Cheltenham who had also come up and ended up in a conversation with a woman at the end who wondered why we'd come all the way to Bristol to perform. It is a weekly event at the Arts House and Bristol simply is bigger and has more to offer was the answer. Cheltenham has a great poetry scene but it is not weekly or even every night like it is in Bristol. We spoke of the poetry society and the Festival and then moved on to art in general.
I read an arch of poetry starting with a Fist Full of Nitro and ending with Star Stuff. From the individual and depressing to the optimistic future of all was the way I saw it.
It was a lovely night.
The painting is called Lonely Christmas and is part of the painted advent I am doing, I like the concept and the colours but... I don't think it quiet works - nor unfortunately do my plans for The Little Book of Festive Poetry amongst other things. Basically there are new VAT laws coming in and they seem stupid complicated and so for now like many many authors I am having to currently put a hold on selling ebooks 🙁
But you can still listen too it here.
We headed up to see our Northern friends, going on a little tour on route to see our friend Andy which was far too brief but lots of fun. Though I don't think Alaric is going to forgive him for introducing us to the 'What does the Fox Say' song!
Jean loves this song as it is the style of music she likes but not about love or money or things she's not interested in - it's about foxes and she loves animals - her comments where high pitched and consisted of 'CUUUUUUTE!!!!' Also the old guy reading reminds her of Ferfer when he's reading her and Mary stories and doing the silly sounds. I personally think the guys are cute and I love silly songs 😉
Alaric lives in horror as I have started singing it but merging it with leek spin and the gummy bear songs etc al 😀
Anyway it was great seeing Andy again and the kids loved him 🙂 One of the things it has highlighted for me is how long it has been since I saw a lot of my friends - something I wish to rectify this year.
Then we went on to Yorkshire to see our friends Ulrike and Mike and their ginea pigs 🙂
Ulrike had decorated the house fantastically for Christmas! Jean and Mary are still talking about it 🙂 There were lots of pocket dragons and a golden dragon in a santa hat with bells on it for Jean. Mary is so happy with her 'babies' - survallian family rabbits - baby and toddler 🙂
The girls loved opening their presents and we played board games 🙂
We went to see some horses (photos on Alaric's phone still!) and watched the Grinch and Brave and played Mario Carts which I am even worse at than 2 years ago, when I played it at my Bro's house - Jean says this is because I was using a steering wheel last time and this time it was controllers. I was pretty bad with the steering wheel!
Ulrike is a Harry Potter nut just like us and has the MOST amazing potion bottle collection 🙂
We also had an amazing breakfast with bread rolls in a lovely wicker basket:)
It was lovely and we really enjoyed ourselves and wish we could have stayed longer with both Andry and Ulrike and Mike. Here are more photos of the girlies and piggies 🙂
As you can see Jeany still really loves the bundles of fluff 🙂
Main one for me is just to get my college stuff over and done with, I think if I was to do anymore I'd look at doing a module a year or doing it full time. Seems a contradiction but it's the way I work best - I have to either be immersed in it or have it so that I can potter along with it.
Apart from that I am really nagging Alaric to try and get that novel off of my old laptop - yes the same novel I was going to get sorted last year - yes that one - now hush.
There is the Monster Blogs 5 yr thing and all that jazz! Hoping to get more things on Etsy and do more of the Bristol Markets.
Mainly though I want to actually meet up with and write to my friends again. I feel I've been really bad at this especially the last few years.
House wise there is the leaks and things to get fixed which I am hoping is not going to be a huge headache to be honest but know probably is.
This year the monster blogs are 5 yrs old on average 🙂 So I thought I'd do a little celebration. Mainly I will be trying to finish various projects off.
This month I am starting with the poetry Muse Monster game which I hope to have on sale properly by the end of the month.
I'll also happily write flash fictions for people if you leave a character or some words or even a story starter in the comment field below 🙂
Events and Outings, Poems, Sarah | sarah | 
Fri 24th Jan 2014 12:14 pm | 
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