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The ordinary
Sometimes the ordinary becomes the most provocative to me…
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Easter
Friends visiting finally prompted us to move out and climb the White Horse Hill. It’s a sublime place- empty yet very mystical. I learned that in May people re-chalk the White Horse drawing- every year! What a great tradition!
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House in Italy
I want to have a house in Italy one day- with orangerie and an open yard – like those Budapest open garden yards dedicated to summer evenings with friends.
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New app bringing back my first type of photos – black and white, studio developed
New Hipstamatic app, TinType, suddenly took me back to the times of my childhood. My dad had a developing room and I was allowed to go in occasionally and play with images developing on paper. This is where my first photography lessons took part – and did not last long. I had to discover the rest myself. But I often look back and miss those few months we had in our secret room… I suspect my Instagram will remain black and white for a while.
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We are all mad…
We are all mad in our house and I love it. I am so happy that I managed to get hold of a Moleskine which reflects those values!
I write more on paper nowadays and I think its a result of a small conversation I had with two mums the other day. It reminded me of the value of writing. When a regular conversation navigated over to screens and writing I was asked if I write letters or a journal….
Well, of course I do. I would be nowhere without my journals! Maybe I am active online sometimes, maybe it sounds like I am busy but actually the pages of my daily journal are the most secret, most intimate, most trusted place to pour down my thoughts on. The way it used to be in the ‘olden’ times – when pages of our personal journals provided us (those who liked to make a note of our lives and discuss our thoughts on paper) with comfort. Part of that comforting feeling was the knowledge that no one would read them, that they belong to us – pretty much like our personal mirrors, right?
I guess this conversation last week stayed with me so deeply…it opened up another box I think i live in – a writer’s box. I have realised that not everyone finds it easy or obvious to write! Why did I think that?
A writer is a person performing the act of writing. So I am a writer. I am not a good writer, but I do write a lot, I like writing and I need to write when I am really sad, on the edge and really do not know who would be the right person to listen. Pages have this amazing ability to record and listen. Sometimes the words, once placed on paper, realise our true feelings sometimes for us – help us see the truth about ourselves. We become our own audience. We don’t need, nor want anyone else.
The speed of writing, the freedom of drawing, the act of allowing the ink to flow, the quality of paper…all of these define how we capture all those truths. And so it is really important to choose the right notebook, allow yourself the time to write when you feel you are in pain or simply stuck.
Maybe this is why I am not stuck in so many situations when my friends are? Maybe not everyone knows the real value of journaling, of a Moleskine notebook in a bag? Maybe me and those who write should share the beauty of this act more clearly?
What do you think?
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Announcing our first Easter Egg Hunt outdoor activity! Join in!
This activity is primarily designed for all our Club Members but if you happen to enjoy Betjeman Park this Easter join in and have fun with us!
Download the pdf version of this poster here: EasterEggHunt2015
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Purple Day for Epilepsy – helping our local charity
We are very proud to report that we have teamed up with our local charity – SUDEP – in celebrations of the Purple Day raising awareness around epilepsy. We did so for two reasons – the charity is our local organisation with global impact, so we wanted to help; secondly – one of our club members was diagnosed with epilepsy and we wanted to get more involved in raising awareness around it locally. So we have asked our parents to make something sweet and yummy and joined the SUDEP stall to give away purple tulips. We loved it and we have helped raise £260.90! Well done everyone!
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Thank you to Wildwood Kitchen for their support!
Dawid enjoying the Wildwood Kitchen cinema before the screening. We had an amazing time enjoying our very own club-made Mum’s Day Video at the Wildwood Kitchen’s cinema last night. What a great feeling to showcase the work of our young video makers and the courage of their mums!
We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! We will not upload the full movie online but you will be able to see the trailer instead. It will be available in the next few weeks on our new YouTube channel.
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Random Acts of Kindness #1
After our social catch up this morning we took a bucket of flowers and gave those away to all mums in the Market Square. So here it is – a bucket of over 50 smiles from this morning. It was so much fun!
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Betjeman Park in Minecraft – session activity
This is not an update on our Spring Competition – we have asked our video makers to give it a go and start working on the Minecraft version of Betjeman Park in Wantage. Here are the results of their work in class:
