Rivers of Gold

Hi Guy's Happy New Year., We visited Laura's School which is just beautiful  I had my eyes on some of the furniture all would look quite smart in my home..Besides eying up the goods we deliverd a short project in an hour..We had toyed with a few ideas from Puppets to Costume, but felt this was all a little too ambitious for a short delivery and first meet..
Before Christmas I had Squirrelled (Take the Boy out of Liverpool) a 100metre roll of Liquid Gold Lame and Sue suggested we base are Workshop on that..

WORKSHOP..Sue and myself introduced are selves with a couple of energisers one a good old run about tick game and another in a circle with are names, and something that is about them, or why it came about...My name is Richard and I was named after Richard the Lion Heart (Thats my story and I am sticking by it)..
We then split into Three groups using 1'2'3-1'2'3. We then introduced the Lame unrolling it down the hall to lots of oohs and cheering and gave them all a giant piece..It came with the proviso that it couldn't be cut up..Then we gave them two adjectives like say War and Party and asked them to come up with a short story based on the Gold Fabric and the adjectives ..We also had musical instruments, and we had brought some Face paints as well..We each took a group Laura, Sue and myself..and then it felt like BEDLEM/CAOS just erupted ..Children shouting, banging drums and running around, but in a totally brilliant way..
I think we just about pulled it off without being totally over whelmed( I have never felt more like having a stiff drink in that hour than any time of late).
We made sure we kept an eye on the clock so we hit certain places that we needed to be in the hour..and at the end of it we had three performances with music, scenery/prop, makeup and written script..I also introduced the Children in my group to the concept of ''Winging it'' which they pulled off brilliantly..
Laura, Sue and Richard than had a good thirty minute debrief over a Cuppa on how we felt and how to move forward in the future..
Sue and myself then headed to the Station where we enjoyed a bag of Chips and a battered Sausage to Celebrate and get over the shock...

We have Photographs, but the School was not happy with them being posted on he blog (boo), but we have them printed up for all to see come Friday..Que. the Brown paper..

Sue ..Laura and Richard