Lucinda Wells considering...

Re-inventing. Maker of images: still and moving, collector of sounds. Family member and sea-side dweller. Thinking process (or lack of) around making work. Some twaddle definitely.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Let's look at this another way

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Today's task

  • Considering
  • Multi-tasking
  • To buy a plank towards the rebuilding of part of our heritage
  • Functioning
  • Moving a piano
  • Noooo not another flight
  • The little details
  • Getting home
  • Organising a multitude where the left doesn't know what the right is doing - where are their bosses?
  • Cleaning and clearing
  • Proper listening
  • Watching
  • Watchful listening
  • Purposeful Communication
  • From A to G
  • Gathering my thoughts about the sound piece
  • Looking for a parasol
  • To remain smoke-free
  • Closing the front door using the letterbox
  • Weeding
  • The telephone
  • Overcoming vertigo
  • To not implode
  • Re-sizing
  • Financial
  • Encourage the printer to work
  • Building the shed
  • Strengthen my arm muscles
  • To relax
  • To try and put things somewhere until I get somewhere to put them
  • Hoovering
  • To get warm

Today's memorable sight

  • The glistening surface of the sea
  • Our burned pier
  • The aloha crowd
  • Home
  • Family
  • Sylvia lounging on the borrowed sofa
  • My home and a half moon
  • The sea, oh the sea...
  • Capturing the unexpected
  • A big fat red moon reflecting and flickering in a path toward my window
  • The thin slip of moon
  • The tuning
  • Crowds
  • Clouds
  • The sea, the sky, then in the far distance a plane
  • A chihuahua crossed with a jack russell
  • Dolphins swimming past my windows - Hurrah
  • The stripes of pale green, dark blue, grey and blue of the sea and sky
  • The moon's rays sparkling on a black sea

Wanted

  • Another website
  • The Pier
  • Paint and a long ladder
  • Everyone to be ok
  • Infinite patience and a winning smile
  • The ability to put it all together
  • Excellent distance
  • A title for the book...
  • it all to be so different
  • A brain that thinks like they do (for understanding where they are coming from)
  • I'll have that pink one please
  • A chihuahua crossed with a jack russell - I wonder if I could sneak it into work?
  • Will power
  • Long socks
  • The best answer
  • A long long handle
  • More patience and some more energy (please)
  • Energy
  • Patience
  • An iron cream marbled bed
  • The instructions to build the shed
  • A 2m upright radiator that looks good e.g. the big one
  • Shelves

From Mum and Dad

  • Patience
  • Swapping some great big china
  • Prioritising
  • Incredible strength and poise
  • The other 50 Parent magazines
  • A sleep machine
  • A dogged determination
  • une cintre inscrits Pigalle c.1950
  • A small slow cooker
  • A Bentwood chair
  • 50 Parent magazines from the 60's
  • A flared lightshade c.1950
  • An orange Pifco scale c.1970
  • A 1940's Hoover Junior that works!
  • A Duplex Handy Scale
  • A 1960's hat rack
  • Some common sense

Is it a good thing that crimplene disappeared?

If you can get this, do

  • A plank for our Pier
  • Some glittery thing
  • A wider view
  • You can't - My Mum's diabetic fruit scones made with butter - unbelievable
  • The Lure of Love. It'll keep you awake and send you to sleep
  • Six Men (by Alistair Cooke if you are wondering)
  • Chocolate Alpro custard
  • The things I've listed from Mum and Dad - you won't be disappointed
  • Margaret Atwood: The Edible Woman (it is very very funny)
  • Equally funny for other reasons is Stars and Bars by William Boyd

Purchased at the weekend

  • Four Tales
  • An orange Moulinex hair dryer c.1970
  • Hurrah another Attwood "Cat's Eye"
  • A linen and lace dress that's too big but it only cost £2.50
  • A small Hanimex slide projector
  • A brilliant hot milk machine for my coffee
  • 3 green glass art deco dishes
  • A tiny fish shaped dish
  • A china victorian wall hanging salt cellar ready for winter
  • An ancient hole punch
  • The thing that is usually at the bottom of the kettle - without the kettle
  • A toddlers bike for £3 found outside a house
  • A Swan chromium plate tea service c.1950
  • Half a dozen flights to Poland
  • A fringe cut
  • A set of leather bound S/S Southern Coast playing cards
  • 2 metres of fabric
  • Margaret Atwood's "Lady Oracle"
  • 'The Count' by Melmar c.1960
  • A Thank You card
  • A SPONG Corkette c.1963
  • A J&G Meakin plate c.1950
  • A fruit loaf
  • Some violets
  • 1 unbelievable dress thing
  • 1 silk top
  • An overnight bag
  • A dress to match the shoes for Poland combined cost £8.50
  • 2 pairs of cufflinks
  • An electric mirror
  • A full-length cream coat for £3
  • A tall sea green glass vase
  • 2 1930's brooches
  • Some plastic yellow chrysanthemums
  • 1 tin of primer
  • A clippy photo bag for Mother's Day
  • A round fortnum and mason box full of buttons
  • 1 small tin shed
  • A brilliant knitted dress for £1
  • A hollyberry t-shirt for Mo
  • A door stop
  • An Italian long-handled ornate shoe horn for Mum and Dad
  • An empty wine box for my pens and pencils
  • A blouse for £2
  • A soroban
  • Pristine Apilco
  • A Double Lion Nylon Watch Band for a man c.1950?
  • A ticket to Poland for my brother's wedding
  • A handbag for £4.97
  • A Suzi Smith handbag for £2.50
  • Penelope Lively's Oleander Jacaranda
  • A fuscia cardigan
  • Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
  • William Boyd's Bamboo
  • An art deco silver brooch - a lido girl with beachball! c1930
  • A knitted hat
  • David Lodge Thinks..
  • 1 fake furry throw
  • 1 paste bow brooch
  • A cashmere and wool coat
  • 4 novels, including Anita Brookner's Family and Friends
  • a tiny sleeping bag
  • 2 thick wool blankets
  • Red sealing wax and seal (letter C) made by Stuart Houghton Ltd
  • A Fulham Pottery Constance Spry Jardiniere c.1950
  • 1 tin of celebrations
  • An orange Bissell carpet sweeper c. 1970
  • A mohair and wool scarf c.1961
  • 4 books, 1 on yoga from LWT, 1 on photography from 1913-1939, John Simpson and Woody Allen's Complete Prose
  • A gold and black paisley trenchcoat
  • A 'Panorama' Japanese telescope c.1973

Recycled this week

  • The linen and lace dress that was too big
  • A disintegrated necklace
  • An oven
  • Two mugs
  • A winter coat

Almost purchased but reason intervened

  • An electric Pifco trouser press
  • A chinchilla
  • A pink guitar (but I may go back to get it)
  • A musical clown trussed into a cardboard wardrobe
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