Firstly, see this website for a great opportunity (ok money isn’t enough for paying off any debts or saving but..)
http://www.varc.org.uk/air/index.html
I have coveted this residency since I was in Edinburgh but have never applied – 12 months seems a bit impossible, not to mention unfair on Dan. Will someone else please go and make the most of it though?
In other news (if you can call it that!) getting up at 5am to get to Yorkshire in time today hurt. I am ready for bed now (8.02pm) but will hang on a bit longer so I sleep well…. Just found out I have five year olds for two days next week so am terrified! I love little kids, but not leading 30 of them in an art class – need more training!!
I keep meaning to say thanks to those who have emailed about the maternity blog post some time ago… I am still getting emails about that one, which is fantastic. Many of the later ones have been highlighting the immense difficulties of continuing your practice (especially in the first year) and coping generally with all the self-disciplined working hours and baby brain.
Now – peppermint tea and watching Howl’s Moving Castle in bed; the kids are going to watch it so I just want to recap (and I love it). They’re a bright bunch this week, but they seem to have had their creativity pushed out of them a bit – for example, upon seeing a house underwater in my initial presentation bit, several of them worried about the electrics and whether the carpets would be ruined. Their self-portraits as houses mostly look like surburbia (there is one boy who has drawn his completely made of BBQ spare ribs), but at least they’ll be easy to make I suppose!
