Being creative

Oooops . . . very near to another BlogFail there.

Today was fairly lazy and uneventful. I slept in late, watched 'Starsky and Hutch' with Mum (who I think enjoyed it, despite her initial horror that it was a comedy and not a 'proper remake'), spent too long on the internet, watched some more DS9. Then I watched 'On Thin Ice' - they finally made it to the South Pole, but only just in one piece. The friendship between olympian James Cracknell and tv star Ben Fogle continues to confuse me, and once you'd thrown doctor Eddy it gets even stranger. It's amazing that they didn't die. What bizzare group dynamics. Mainly because two of them are both so intimidated by James that they can't do the necessary thing - rugby tackle him and force him to slow down - and his crazy behaviour puts him at risk time and again. When Eddy did take charge things seemed to get better. I did feel bad for James after his breakdown though - one that seemed about 30years in the making. Here's hoping that the James/Ben relationship will be less hero/worshipper and a bit more a balance of equals in the future. Made for great TV though! :)

And I've been working on painting a silk scarf for most of this evening. Pretending to be creative is very stressful. The pack that it came in provided many cardboard stands which have to be stuck to the table, with the scarf secured to them with pins, so it doesn't touch the table-top. But these cardboard stands are fairly useless, and keep unfolding themselves, so have to be readjusted every couple of minutes. And I've got 5 or 6 splodges where the colour has run to somewhere it should not be . . . nightmare! I think it's meant to be relaxing, but it really isn't. This is why I don't do the artsy/crafty stuff very often. Ah well. Hopefully it'll look ok-ish in the end.