I got into the studio this week, despite the relentless heat and I got a fair bit of preparation done for cranking out some wheel work - chucked stuff out, drilled new batts, rehydrated buckets of slurry. It has been a disgustingly hot and humid summer not to mention the floods, earthquakes and bushfires in Australia. Didn't someone once refer to it as God's country. Mmm methinks we may be out of favour this millenium - maybe we are just too good at every sport we do, and an impossibly goodlooking lot of folk too. A supermarket dash for some dinner ingredients found me slipping on a mat in the fresh produce aisle and landing hard on my left side. Good job it wasn't my left, cos that hip already hurt. Now I have a whole new lot of hurt bits. But you know what? It is NOT going to stop me from pushing on with my plans.
Have I ever shown you my wheels? I own two, one is a Bitsa - made from bitsa broken wheels, and the other is a BEAUTIFUL kickwheel all wood and copper tray like something from a Leonardo DaVinci exhibition. I think is based on a Leach style kickwheel. I was lent a wireless Venco wheel over Christmas, loved it and have begged to borrow it again. I shall snap some photos today. Do you know Venco wheels, the modern incarnation is high on my wishlist so portable and adaptable. Made in Western Australia of course http://www.venco.com.au/
