Blog 24 – ‘What it Says on the Tin’ – Ms Paige Turner tells an intentional porkie pie each bi-month. This month the prize for the first in with the correct answer is a 400 word assessment.
I thought September was going to be about a bit of cosmetic surgery. You know, freshly painted playing field lines and brightly coloured uniformed soft furnishings.
Alas, no. I hear (by eavesdropping) that the kitchen carcases have not arrived at the shop, the granite bathroom top is chipped and Master Builder seems to have gone into hiding. The whole house is being painted in Pale Parchment but it looks more like Cornish Cream. It’s never what it says on the tin.
We’re also at that stomach-twinging stage of rehearsals on ‘Dear John’. The short list has gone up and actors are trying to ‘get off the book’. Book not hook! Always a painful process. A number of entrants have asked for a report on their entry and we hope this isn’t painful but productive. We like to do what we say on the tin.
I still have a few places left on the Creative Ink classes beginning on Tuesday 10th October (Get Inspired) – we’re doing the Seven Ages of Man and Woman this autumn term – from Birth to Wisdom – and Thursday 12th October (Get that Book out of You).
Patricia Sentinella of the ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ collection fame will be reading from her book at the Beaconsfield Library on Friday 30th September at 11.00am.
As I write, Master Builder has pitched up in what was once my kitchen. The carcases have arrived and we’re back on. That Cornish Cream is now looking better in a different light. It looks like the colour of Hope. And if you Google Pale Parchment it throws up Creativity. I guess it’s how you mix it all up and apply the coats.
Anne Graham won the blog prize last bi-month. I did say there would be 12 entries and we have 11 posted. Four handout sheets of your choice despatched to you, Anne as you were first in. The other intentional error was that apparently Jack built a rotten house. Master Builder is faring better.
Assessments to be taken up within two months and not applicable to ‘Dear John’ reports.
Is ‘carcas’ spelt ‘ss’? Doesn’t look quite right to me.
Couldn’t find creativity on very, very quick google search for pale parchment. Perhaps my research wasn’t thorough enough. Let me try the ‘carcas’.