School's Out!

The past week has flown by, and suddenly everything is in Christmas mode. After surviving most of last week on the usual sleep 3-4 hours, work 20, I should have done the smart thing and spend the weekend sleeping, eating, being outdoors. Instead, it was the AfH big build weekend for the Central East Christmas shelter so up I was ready to paint/build/carry etc after almost 4 hours of sleep. Needless to say I wasn't all that much help, but I did the best I could. It didn't help that it was freezing and they hadn't put the heating on in the building.


That's the building that Crisis managed to get at the last minute (literally, they signed the contract the night before the little build the weekend before) while we'd been designing without a site for weeks beforehand.

Some of the paint made available to paint the shower doors which were magically set up within the building. It's amazing what can be done with a little push and shove.

Apologies about the lack of photos, since I only went round once with the camera and didn't really want to get in everyones faces. Might sift through a couple of the shared ones and post them later though. So went back on Sunday again but stayed only til lunch as most of the work was done already, and was hanging around eating Pringles and chatting to the other volunteers. Called Kyle to come round so went over to Spitalfields Market and found the Kinetica Museum
which was awesome! Sadly though the exhibits weren't getting the treatment they would have done if the Musum/gallery wasn't set inside the market itself. This one was one of my faves..

The black arrowheads weren't touching the yellow cloth and were held by magnets. Some tourists came along and took one down letting it dangle, then threw it back at the canvas! Shocking!

Since, I've been trying to regain the sleep I had lost, but as my dad says, once you've lost a night's sleep, it's not something you can get back. Well, no harm in trying. zzzw