Another miraculous silk purse from a sow’s ear – no that is not the right metaphor.  There must be a saying that sums up finding a sapphire ring in a pig pen. Another fine sapphire from a pig pen! This morning, for the first time, I was wishing I had never started this project. I was down in the dumps with no confidence and an idea for today’s piece that I really didn’t have any faith in when I had a little idea just pop in and immediately I jumped up and created something pretty special and something which caused me to do some prep for some other things as well as deciding to develop some other work from it. I have no idea where it came from and it was sort of a cheating way to make the idea that wasn’t going to work (and which I would have spent a lot of time on before accepting that it wasn’t any good) have a speedier and easier resolution.  Then it just took off and I knew immediately it was going to work and was worth the effort. All that was said in one excited breathless breath!

Anyway the postman who is supposed to be a fan is on holiday: thus the exchange above!