Planning, Writing, Drinking Tea.

Things going on here today? The usual day-to-day boring stuff. Trying to figure out some dates for conferences, travel, holidays, and online courses for the next months. Packing up stuff ordered in the shop to get it sent out. Writing for the presentation in Syke about the Bronze Age garments reconstruction.

It's a lot of fun to re-visit all the stages of production, and the images taken. I'm also slowly getting to the point where I have something like a plan on how to present the various individual pieces, and where and how to give the basic information for those in the audience who are not textile specialists. That is one of the challenges when doing a presentation for a completely unknown audience - you want to give enough basic explanations on what you are talking about so that everybody can follow, but it can't be too long or too elaborate, and you don't want to bore the part of the audience who already knows about it. For instance, I can't assume that everybody will know how weaving works in general, or on a warp-weighted loom specifically - so I have to explain this, because some understanding of the loom and the process are necessary to understand one of the characteristics of the large textile pieces: the weft crossings where several weavers worked together. Fortunately I also made the belt, and I have a video and pictures of that, so I can explain the basics here and then go on to the larger fabric, and the loom. 

Getting these presentations done takes quite a bit of time, especially as the ideas need to get sorted out, the sequence has to be found, and everything needs a day or two inbetween to settle in my head and organise itself. Good thing there's still a few days left before I have to finish!

I'm also trying to figure out if now is a good time to treat the peach tree against its curly leaf syndrome, or if it would be better to wait another one or two days. I find this always hard to tell. Last year I didn't catch the correct point in time, and there were lots of very, very curly leaves. There were still some peaches, but I can't say if the number of them had something to do with the tree not doing well, or the weather, or something else.

All this, of course, fueled by tea. Because everything is better with tea. Except when it's better with coffee... which is also being consumed. Why stick to one source of motivational caffeinated hot drink, after all, if you can have two?