play – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:54:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg play – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Creative Sunday https://shepline.com/2007/02/04/creative-sunday-3/ https://shepline.com/2007/02/04/creative-sunday-3/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:54:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/creative-sunday-3/ 1. Another perfect winter’s day with crisp, clear sunlight. Certainly a day to live for. As it turned out though, it was a day to listen to Desert Island Discs and do a bit of vacumning and cleaning.

2. Spent the rest of the morning and lunchtime reading through Between Floors and making notes before the play meeting this afternoon. I think we are almost there. Almost there to get some people in to read our play.

3. Some more good crits in today on Blood & Fire – a couple on chapter five and six from Louise, and one for chapter two from Ntn.

]]> https://shepline.com/2007/02/04/creative-sunday-3/feed/ 0 Creative Sunday https://shepline.com/2007/02/04/creative-sunday/ https://shepline.com/2007/02/04/creative-sunday/#respond Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:54:00 +0000 http://shepline.com/creative-sunday/ 1. Another perfect winter’s day with crisp, clear sunlight. Certainly a day to live for. As it turned out though, it was a day to listen to Desert Island Discs and do a bit of vacumning and cleaning.

2. Spent the rest of the morning and lunchtime reading through Between Floors and making notes before the play meeting this afternoon. I think we are almost there. Almost there to get some people in to read our play.

3. Some more good crits in today on Blood & Fire – a couple on chapter five and six from Louise, and one for chapter two from Ntn.

]]> https://shepline.com/2007/02/04/creative-sunday/feed/ 0 On the Third Day of Christmas: the inner child https://shepline.com/2006/12/28/on-the-third-day-of-christmas-the-inner-child/ https://shepline.com/2006/12/28/on-the-third-day-of-christmas-the-inner-child/#respond Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:11:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1545 Today the entire Howell family descended on us for the day. Or at least it felt like the entire Howell Family. In actual fact, Gareth and Andy and their three (very Welsh-named) kids didn’t, being in America now. But Carys and Bari were there along with Lynn and Andy and Becky and Bethan, which added to our numbers, already swelled with the addition of Ian and Andy (yes, they all married Andy’s – I swear I will run a mile if I meet a girl called Andy/Andi/Andrea) and Ben.

Becky and Bethan, being 6 and 4 and Ben being just 2, we had a good spread of ages and toys, and we played lots and lots, building the trainset and the road system and the Lego zoo, and I had great fun returning to the my childhood home. 🙂

The culmination, or finale to the afternoon’s fun was a spot of Christmas caroling with a slightly bizarre range of instruments. Carys played the 1980’s electric keyboard with missing keys and was about as musical as a circa 1980s electric keyboard (with ‘interesting’ drum selection) will allow. A more measured musical performance came from the 1st in C’s over in the corner, courtesy of me on Flute and Lynn on Oboe (and subsequently my piccolo) after her lip went. Over in the second and thirds were Mum and Bari on clarinet, and Dad on Trumpet (although Ben did have a go too!) and then miscellaneous recorder and/or plastic-mixing-bowl-drum from Becky, Bethan and Ben. The two lapsed-flautists, Andy and Andy, watched – in horror – from the sidelines at the musical carnage that ensued (and recorded it for posterity on video…)

Great fun!! 😉

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