We lost a day to the weather the other week..Jamie had arranged to meet us at Sawrey to look at /from Claife Viewing station, portal to the picturesque, a promontory equipped with coloured glass through which to simulate any inconveniently absent
features of light and weather.
Anyway, the weather did for that; no-one - quite rightly- fancied the drive through 40mph gales and rain and we left the fells to the forces that shaped them.
Alex and me were in the cottage the day before, and we had a steady run of visitors; the place was never quiet, people making models with Alex, talking shop, taking the opportunity to visit the cottage and look at what we are up to in there. Supporters from the local Council called between surgeries, historians and artists gathered in a doorway, one of them gave me a Jennings Book. Wizard, Darbi!
In one room were Alex's construction and my enlarged and modified version of the Watts map.we tried that out for size earlier that week, with writer Kate Davis in attendance... at this scale the map becomes something to be crossed and explored as much as the room itself. The plan is to take it into the garden as stimulus for story telling, conversation, picnic-ing.
Dennis' photographs and Alex's box construction attracted a crowd. A patch of sunlight on its grey empty streets combined with memories of reading school library copies of "Jennings" on grudging, silent ghost town sundays, of black and white telly and 'eating just enough to sleep.' But that's just me.
Dans daughter Emmy arrived with an easel, and took up a place across the road with her paints, there may be an exhibition in the making here.
Large photos by Lindsay Ward photography.
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