New Activities - Month Five
Sep. 22nd, 2019 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitSeptember has been a month for doing new things, of various types.
At the beginning of the month I took an all day sketching workshop. I learnt some things, and had a chance to experiment with some different media, which was good. But the person who was leading the day concentrated on learning to sketch and create in a similar way to what he did, so when it came to the one-to-one assistance in the afternoon he was stressing how I should be trying a certain way, when what I wanted would have rather more basic. Yes, I learnt some things, and had it been simply a morning, and the cost of a morning, I would have been very happy with it. As it was, I didn't feel I got as much benefit from it as I should have done.
As some of you know, I volunteer with Gloucestershire Bundles, a local baby bank (like a food bank but with clothing and equipment for babies/mother-to-be/children). At the beginning of the month I went to a committee meeting - committee is a fairly loose term, it was all those volunteers who were interested and able to come. There I said I might be interested in helping raise funds by applying for grants, and so joined the grant application team. I met the team leader on Friday, and am now going to be applying for small grants to various organisations. I have half wondered why I'm doing yet another activity, but it's a charity I believe in very firmly and I want to support it, and this is one way I can do so.
And lastly I went to Cardiff yesterday and met the delightfulluthienberen . We wandered round about half of the art collection in the Cardiff Museum and then went for lunch in M&S café (chosen because it wouldn't be full of football/speedway fans). It was lovely getting to meet her and I've very glad we managed to meet up.
At the beginning of the month I took an all day sketching workshop. I learnt some things, and had a chance to experiment with some different media, which was good. But the person who was leading the day concentrated on learning to sketch and create in a similar way to what he did, so when it came to the one-to-one assistance in the afternoon he was stressing how I should be trying a certain way, when what I wanted would have rather more basic. Yes, I learnt some things, and had it been simply a morning, and the cost of a morning, I would have been very happy with it. As it was, I didn't feel I got as much benefit from it as I should have done.
As some of you know, I volunteer with Gloucestershire Bundles, a local baby bank (like a food bank but with clothing and equipment for babies/mother-to-be/children). At the beginning of the month I went to a committee meeting - committee is a fairly loose term, it was all those volunteers who were interested and able to come. There I said I might be interested in helping raise funds by applying for grants, and so joined the grant application team. I met the team leader on Friday, and am now going to be applying for small grants to various organisations. I have half wondered why I'm doing yet another activity, but it's a charity I believe in very firmly and I want to support it, and this is one way I can do so.
And lastly I went to Cardiff yesterday and met the delightful
luthienberen . We wandered round about half of the art collection in the Cardiff Museum and then went for lunch in M&S café (chosen because it wouldn't be full of football/speedway fans). It was lovely getting to meet her and I've very glad we managed to meet up.
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Date: 2019-09-23 12:37 pm (UTC)Cardiff is a great city; I consider it a privilege to have been able to live there for three years. They may not have been the happiest years of my life for various reasons and I don't plan to go back anytime soon but to say, 'Yeah, I lived in Cardiff' is still pretty cool! :D Glad you had fun.
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Date: 2019-09-23 03:05 pm (UTC)I like Cardiff, although I don't go that often. It's only an hour away by train so quite accessible.