Drive, cake, booze, tarts, dancing, booze, stew, tent, cheese, tarts, cake, drive, cake

[bunn]

If you can't be bothered to read about my weekend, I have handily summarised it for you in the subject.  The rest is detail.  Oh, and a painting.  Well, two paintings, one by Bruegel, one by me.

Comments

[inzilbeth_liz]

You're brave camping in this weather! Love the card.

[bunn]

Given what it's like this morning I think I was very lucky to get away without a soaked tent!

[king_pellinor]

The card is lovely, thank you so much :-)

Do you do commissions? I could do with some illuminated pages for writing F&H stuff in, and those little figures and your prawncyclists would be perfect :-)

[bunn]

No, no, thank *you* *bows in circular politeness*

I can do, you mean you want things that can be printed off A4 with little people, trees etc round the edges & space for a message in the middle? Colour or B&W?

[king_pellinor]

Well I've been writing some books in character, and the pages look a bit plain without doodles all round the edge. So what I'd ideally like is to be able to give someone artistic some pages (either ready-written, or still blank) and leave them for a bit while the arty person occasionally throws some mediaeval doodles round the edges and maybe in the blank pages, and then retrieve them for binding.

I kind of assume that this sort of art is a thing that happens best when you're not looking, so it's best to sort of dig the bed, scatter the seeds, and then come back later to see what's sprung up :-)

[bunn]

Oh yes, I remember.

I'd feel a bit worried about decorating a painstakingly -written page unless I got something horribly wrong (I know medieval monks had to do it, but I believe you can scrape off parchment if it all goes pearshaped, which you can't do with paper!)

But I can certainly decorate some blank pages if you want? Do you want relevant illustration or just vaguely medieval looking ones?

[king_pellinor]

Oh, and there were five kids - there were two identical princesses, Robin Hood, Malfoy and the plaque victim. Though at times I got the impression there must be at least a dozen getting under dancers' feet :-)

[bunn]

Oh! I forgot Robin Hood! He had an excellent hat too.

[ladyofastolat]

The plaque victim? Did it fall off the wall and hit him on the head?

[bunn]

I was thinking of dental plaque. Brush every day without fail... or else!!!

[ladyofastolat]

Maybe the government has secret bunkers alongside every motorway, broadcasting a constant hum of "motorway noise." Should aliens invade Westminster/the ants rise up to rule us/mega piranhas eat the government/a meteor lands on the Queen, mass panic and rioting will be avoided, because people will hear the constant distant roar of the motorway and know that civilisation is carrying on as normal.

[bunn]

Goodness, depressing theory! People being reassured and comforted by motorway noise!

I prefer to think it was National Drive at 2AM Day, and they were all planning to meet up for a huge jolly picnic, perhaps on the cliffs around Dover.