Thankfully both Barbara and I are nearly over the dreaded lurgy so we are more or less back to normal now.
I re-completed a lop ear bunny - why re-completed? - well I finished it and then dropped it breaking both his back legs and all of his body plus his ear broke in half. Happily still had enough glass to make again all the broken bits. Here is a picture of the completed bunny - he survived the surgery and is now on his way to East Sussex. (It is bunny because we don't say the R word on Portland as it is considered unlucky - a superstition dating back to the days when quarry workers worked by hand) .
The superstition is believed to be because they would see rabbits emerging from their burrows immediately before a rock fall and blame them for increasing the risk of dangerous, sometimes deadly, landslides. If a rabbit was seen in a quarry, the workers would pack up and go home for the day, until the safety of the area had been assured.
We have a couple of new opportunities to showcase the work of Royal Manor Workshops so perhaps time to make something special to show off your talents. The first will be an exhibition at the Sailing Academy on 31st March and the second a 10 day exhibition in Weymouth in August while Olympics are on so a really good opportunity to bring our talents to new audiences.
By the way - did anyone see the bit in Countryfile on Sunday 8th Jan about David Hockney - he has created a video using 9 cameras to record familiar scenes from his paintings but giving a close up on foreground, middle ground and background as a collage of 9 moving images through diffrent seasons - it was brilliant albeit only an excerpt as it is not published yet.
Martin
