Tuesday 16 July 2013

The end of Art as we know it, and too much enthusiasm for small people....

As this week is the last week of the school year before the big summer holiday which as it happens usually means it rains loads, although dad insists it will be OK as he has finally sorted the Weather Machine after having to turn it off a couple of weeks ago to tweak things. I have told dad that once he turned it off the sun came out and it has been really hot here ever since but he assures me that unless he gets it working this week it is bound to rain during the school holidays.  Which brings me back to the point I was making, today I was in the local Junior School in Monty for what was the very last art class this year with the over enthusiastic small children who as it happened we a bit frazzled and hyper. I think a combination of heat (yes it is hot) and the prospect of seven and a half weeks of holidays meant they were mentally slightly scrambled and over excited, I am never over excited myself, in fact I have mastered the skill of non excitement to that of a grand master….. I did smile a bit once but I got away with it as it was in the dark.




 When I left I was given a home-made card, well when I say home-made I mean School made card with pictures of our final work OK not the Dragonfly as that was finished tonight; and I was given two bottles of Monty Ale. I know I am the eccentric child of cyberspace and therefore tea total (I do drink a lot of tea) but it was a lovely thought and many folk are now saying that they just fancy a nice cool bottle of locally brewed beer and don’t know where to get one from. However it has been decided that we will keep the bottles of beer for Mr F on his next trip to see us…



I will be away now until Friday afternoon as we are off to the Funeral of Miss A, Mr F’s wife so it may now be Saturday before I post the next exciting instalment of my diary, Yes I know I said I don’t do excitement but of course I am very aware that all my readers are excited by my diary entries (OK that is more than 1 and less that 10) but then who really reads that Shakespeare chap.


Luckily Miss I and Mr S will be holding the fort . . . . .. I am not sure about that saying, forts are usually huge stone buildings and trying to pick one up to hold it is near on damn impossible, even chiselling out a few stones from say a tower near the draw bridge and holding them is not easy. For one thing you get shouted at loads.  

9 comments:

  1. Aww that's a nice card. I think you're diary is always exciting :)

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    1. Thank you Miss Laura . . . . . . Although I think it is having a quiet patch at present what with life and the universe and very hot days . . . . .

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  2. It's nice that they appreciated you with a card.

    I'm sorry about the funeral. If you wanted to make sure that your readers had something to read, you should have asked me to fill in and write some diary entries for you. Can you imagine what a diary written by me would be like? I promise I wouldn't swear or be vulgar.

    Anyway, see you when you get back, and I look forward to your return.

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    1. You know better than to trust the man above!

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    2. I think Mr H kind of has a point Mr Addman I know that you would never write anything not suitable for an under 12. But on the other hand a little devil creature might whisper in your ear and you might think ooooooooo yes Mavis and the olive oil incident leading to Uncle Jims aquittal on a technical point.

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  3. How nice of the over excited kids to give you card. Hopefully they all be eager to return after the rainy holidays to start new ones!

    Never know what the right turn of phrase is for a funeral, but I hope all goes well.

    Keep yer chin up and see you on the other side!

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    1. Thanks Mr H if there is such a thing as a good funeral then it was, but life is fickle and our futures unpredictable. I am now back and getting my wits together again.

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  4. I think that 'Smiling In The Dark' is a good name for a hard rock band disguised as a Polka Band with philharmonic tendencies but only if it contains ten dancers who used to be Rockettes and its fiLLed with harmonicas, weLL, at least 4. No, 5, ... five harmonicas.

    (back to reading the rest of your blog post)

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    1. I think the hard rock band will need to play in the dark too, possibly tuning the laser light show on the audience in a reverse of normal conventions.

      Five Harmonicas is a good number and could also be the unknown warm up band for Smiling In The Dark....

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