Sunday, January 22

I still haven't visited Penge

I've been staying in Dulwich (pronounced: dull itch) which is on the way to Penge, a place that also sounds like a medical symptom in this case maybe a pain/twinge, as in:

I can't do that - it makes my knees penge

The Putney heating is still broken so I jumped at the opportunity to look after a cat-in-a-warm-house last week but alas I have now returned to the Putney fridge.

In the Mortuary

I've been running the Life Drawing classes. I had a special one on Saturday - after  a day spent marching against Drumpf I had to rush eastwards only just making it to the mortuary in time to set up for the Birthday Party Life Class. The model I shall call Chumpy, an excitable man who was already naked and waiting for me in the kitchen, there were things to be done before the guests arrived and every time I looked around Chumpy was doing something dangerous while naked - he had to be ordered down from a stack of chairs that he'd decided to clamber onto (he wanted to pin bunting up), then he cut his finger. When he'd done bandaging the finger he started blowing up balloons, it was during this episode that he managed to hurt his eye. The class arrived and the host wore gold shoes with flashing blue lights, he handed out artist berets to his 30 friends along with Champagne and fizzy jelly sweets.  When I finally got the class settled with crayons and paper, I asked Chumpy if he could start with a simple kneeling posture which he did by attempting a sort of upside down pretzel shape - knocking over a cup of water as he fell.

I've got Chumpy again next Thursday but after that I get a Ballerina.

9 comments:

  1. Laughing too hard to write a prooper comment...

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  2. I hope the ballerina is more poised!
    Sx

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  3. Dulwich (pronounced: dull witch) is what I make for lunch when turned loose in the kitchen (sort of like Chumpy)!

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    1. You're being a bit harsh on yourself LX - from what I've seen you're a kitchen acer

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  4. I'm speechless. You really need to write a book - memoirs. Please. My friend the bookstore owner lives in Herne Hill so I actually knew about Dull Itch. Glad to learn how to pronounce "Penge" and usages.

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    1. I hope to see usages in your next book Kim

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  5. I thought "Penge" was probably one syllable, and pronounced like "whinge" but you can't be too careful with the Brits. You know, the way "Belvoir" is pronounced "Beaver" and "Cholmondeley" is pronouced "Gordon" and "Featherstonehaugh" is pronounced "Western." ;-)

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