Today I hid poetry around Gloucester (hope they were all found before the rain!), saw people wearing the badges from the pouches, had people ask about the festival when they saw me making more pouches, sorted some exciting things along the lines of an Ada Lovelace Day event, Poetry talks, tech-history and art/sci/paleo cross over with two different sets of people representing several different groups and moving the goal of art and science accessibility forward in the world.
I also had an epic lunch at Cookes Cafe and Curios which do gluten free sandwiches (most places with GF options still only do cake or stupid expensive hot meals that are a days cals in and of themselves!). I love this cafe and I met my friend and we chatted for ages and it was great and the people who run the place are lovely and yeah it's just one of my favourite places in Gloucester.
Later still I met up with Jean after school and we had a cake in the Waterstones Cafe - their GF cake happens to be orange and lavender and reminds me of my nan (dad's mum). It is a glorious cake and one I probably shouldn't keep buying but I do... Jean bought herself a white chocolate tart with a W on it for Waterstones. The Gloucester Waterstones no longer has a Costas instead it has it's own little coffee shop and they use a local bakery.
I love sitting and creating things in both of these coffee shops/cafes they both induce a lovely atmosphere and yes I know it's a bit much have done both in one day but I was in Gloucester for the whole day!
Jean enjoyed her cake.
At the end of April me and Jean were sitting in the Gloucester Waterstones Cafe - she was doing her home work and I was working on my graphic novel script. I think I swapped what I was doing to making stuff for a writing workshop and she finished her homework stole my sketch pad and began drawing. Her drawings have been improving drastically this year and she love the general idea of anime and comic book art. She wanted an activity book so she could work through a series of exercises - not like the shelf of how to draw/art books we have on the shelf at home but more... interactive ie you get to draw in the book but it's not a colouring book type thing.
So off I went to look at what the bookshop had (well actually I popped off to the loos but noticed they had some books that matched her description so nabbed a few on the way back), none of them were quiet what she wanted and she decided they were too expensive...
"Could you make one with your tea cup and mug picture in it?"
So I started work on it and she vetoed and swapped things etc... until we have ended up with this booklet - it is along the lines of the Cuddly Science Activity Booklet and the Christmas Activity Booklet I made.
And also because it is us it has an essay on cave art with examples from around the world!
There will be a free downloadable PDF version on WigglyPets Press when I get round to it 🙂
In the mean time it will be coming with me to workshops, festivals and shows and physical copies can be bought from my etsy shop.
Mary loves climbing, Mary loves dresses, Mary will climb in dresses with a harness regardless of chaffing. Mary always has little boys try and tell her how hard it is to climb, and is told not to worry if she doesn't reach the top. Sometimes the parent joins in with telling Mary how little she is and how big the wall is. Mary always climbs to the top of the wall after telling them she knows how to climb, thankyou. Mary once climbed in her ballet tutu and has been climbing to the top of the wall since just before she was 3 yrs old before that she did not like the harness on over her nappy. Mary is already fed up and commenting on the fact this happens - Mary is six.
Busy poetic time are coming up 🙂
Thursday 27th of April Villanells Gloucester Fountain Inn from 7-11 pm - I am running a workshop at the beginning of the evening followed by recording performances and interviews organised by The Gloucester Poetry Society
Saturday 29th of April ReneGade Festival 2017 3 -1:30 pm which is opening with Food For Thoughts Poetry performance
May 4th - 15th Cheltenham Poetry Festival, I'll be in the Slam Friday 12th May 8:30 but will be generally about the place 🙂
Saturday 20th of May A Pint of Prose organised by the Gloucester Poetry Festival
Plus as many regular nights as I can get too 🙂 Feeling very excited!!! (there might be another slam as well but it just depends on fitting things in!)
Regular Poetry events in Gloucester and Cheltenham are:
Buzzwords 1st Sunday of every month in Cheltenham
Speakeasy 1st Tuesday of every month in Gloucester
Waterstones Poetry Night Monday evenings in Cheltenham
Poetry Cafe 2nd Wednesday of the month in Cheltenham
Food For Thoughts variable but during the afternoon once a month at the weekend in Gloucester
Villanelles last Thursday of every Month in Gloucester
Cheltenham Poetry Societies Kickstart Workshops 1st Tuesday of the month in Cheltenham
Jam Back at the Tav every Wednesday evening primarily music but accepts spoken word in Cheltenham
Yesterday was mad! It took five hours of extra driving to get home thanks to lots of different road works, a detour to th wilds around Oxford due to kids not listening to "go to the toilet now as there wont be any other toilets on the way home" and having to show the nice police that our van only contain kids and no stolen motobikes!
But it did mean we were driving when the rainbow clouds appeared in the sky, the colours haven't really come out that well - possibly as the best angle for colour was not one where I could get a picture and I was in a moving van taking the photos through the windscreen!
I believe this is Cloud Iridescence and was something I have only come across in the last few years when I saw and photographed some green clouds with my phone. Since then I have been seeing it quiet regularly though normally when I am not in a good position to take photographs!
It's basically little ice crystals in the clouds working like mini prisms and splitting out the colours of sunlight. It's beautiful, I am wondering if it is because our climate is changing that I've only just started seeing it or if it is because I was just really unobservant before?
Art and Craft, Events and Outings, Jean, Poems, Sarah, Sci/Tech, Work | sarah | 
Fri 19th May 2017 8:08 am | 
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