when the sails of windmills still turned...

This past week I've visited a Memory Café and several residential homes. One home is having to close shortly and I was asked to visit and show my portfolio of photographs and talk with the few remaining residents, who are, understandably, experiencing stress and sadness with regard to their imminent move.

 

I talked and listened with individuals and also with two friends who have known each other since school days ( and I'm guessing that's eighty years or more). I was touched by their polite deference to each other when talking - they gave each other space (I do hope they will be able to move somewhere together).

 

 

 

 

We talked about learning to swim in the River Exe and dancing in the Cavern Club. About skills I'll never acquire: hand-milking cows, shorthand and making lace wedding veils.  There was laughter recalling detentions given for unsatisfactory darning, and one young boy's help with the war effort. He collected fluffy seed heads in a match box and posted them to Winston Churchill on hearing that there was a shortage of wool!

 

 

 

Tomorrow I am presenting one gentleman with a booklet containing his life story as he has dictated it to me. Fantastic memories of life in a village between the wars, when the sails of windmills still turned....

Hooked on Flowers

Stop Press! One place now available on tomorrow's Hooked on Flowers w/shop

 (see workshop page for details)

new hearth!

Apologies for the lack of postings recently; I have a new hearth!

I've recently moved up the road, to a lovely cottage (still in Wellington).

 

Still unpacking.

 

 

Studying the palimpsest walls:

 

 

Delighting in the secrets of its garden 

making themselves known to me:

 

 

On the work front, lots of interesting projects ahead, including continuing with the locally funded creative writing/photographic project with older people. Art and craft workshops with Honiton Memory Café at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, and Rag Rug workshops at Over the Moon in Taunton.

 

See workshop page for details on how to book a place on my Rag Rug w/shops.