a weekend of fun?

so here is my third post. hmmmm not bad.
i have just finally found myself with a day off to gather my thoughts and do 101 other things that need doing.
i have spent the weekend in the fabulous 14th century. playing bat the rat on Sunday with errant locals. seems harry the stunt rat is quite a hit (excuse the pun) found myself making him a whole background and persona out of necessity for my sanity. the kiddies liked him though but found it hard to bat him when he had a personality so i gave him a few character flaws.

Sunday found myself baking i made the standard bread which turned out edible!!!!! and welsh cakes with no fruit. (i had none) the rain held off and it was a success of sorts.
i also became the owner of some ginger mint and blackcurrant sage. yum. i just need to build that raised bed for my herbs now. maybe this weekend it the time fro building.

yesterday i had the all important phone call from the BBC. i am spending all next week filming Merlin. it will be nice to see myself in the background. knowing my luck though i will end up being the spec no one can see again but never the less it is a change.

had the cleanup day yesterday. i love the clean up day at the village. it's a very cleansing feeling of "taking the village back" from the re enactors. replacing wandering furniture and picking up litter. but looking back through the gates after you have finished and seeing a window into another century. but with set dressers all over it!

corsetry for today!
will post pics

mud, mud, glorious mud.

today i spent most of my time wading around in mud.
the grand vale show and good lord it rained.
spent the day promoting the village.
also took the opportunity to have a look around at the various different stalls and fell in love with so many things.
it left me wanting "the good life" more and more. so many wonderful craft stalls, so many beautiful plants. wonderful livestock. and none of it mine. ah well there is always the future.
i did see a wonderful example of an angel trumpet tree. it gave me confidence with mine. i have previously not been convinced that the climate we have here will be conducive to success. but i was assured by the owner it was from his garden and he did nothing more than feed and mulch. so watch this space!
so so sick of this rain though. i have a decking full of plants waiting to be put in but can't do anything until the raised beds are built and can't do that until this rain eases off.
only then can i look at how much garden i have left to play with for veggies.
still only half way through the week and have so much to do!
and two more events to get through...porthkerry and cossie!
but all in all a wet, muddy but good day!

don't know how to start

i really am at a loss. i have very little idea of what to do with this blog as yet. i am a real computer blind fool.

i want to use this blog a s a diary of all my musings and random things. things on my mind. thing important to me. creative endeavours and of course rants.

an insite into my world.

a little self indulgent maybe but then we are all entitled to a small amount of self indulgence.

well i suppose i should say something about me.......

at the moment it is stupidly early in the morning and i have found myself unable to sleep. mulling over all the things that seem impossibly important at 4.30 am, i decided to get up and have a cup of tea. this is where it led me. first spending 15 mins trying to remember my password, and then wondering what to write. if there are any loons who decide this is what they want to be reading i here by promise it can only get better. i plan to figure out what on earth i am doing at some point.

well then what labels can i put to myself?

i am a wife and mother,

i am walking the path of downsizing....

i have recently found myself interested in a variety of creative activities....after all i am an artist. seem i just forgot this for nearly twenty years.

i love history and work in this field. i am an historical interpreter at a reconstructed medieval village. a heritage actor for a heritage theatre group. and in my more egotistical moments i call myself a historian.

i am a gardener and have found i have a knack for making things grow.

i make costume and have a passion for corsetry and a love of historical underpinnings.

and i am sure i could go on with this list for a long time.

i have two wonderful children whom i adore. i feel myself lucky and blessed in this area. they are turning into two wonderful people and i made em!

my head is filled with all manner of oddities. i feel sure that if i had 48 hours in each day to make all the things i want to i could make a million! but hey ho no matter. i will bimble along the way i have been doing for years.





time for more tea now i think