always need some embroidery

For a while it has seemed as if I had lost the plot in a world that has gone bonkers. Perhaps it has, but my self-absorption and grumbling does not change a thing. So, after a short break and holiday I have decided to get back on track.  Not sure where I am going but with one step after the other … I will find myself somewhere.

My ongoing project, about a fictional village by the Thames near Reading has not changed, moreover it has become an event and gathered momentum.  Subsequently, I am required to do some embroidery. Although I am inclined to do some fancy stitchwork, embroidery is a metaphor for poetic embellishment. This work in progress is set in old rural Britain. I am no historian or poet so fact and fiction will undoubtedly get muddled and messy and for me this adds to the delight. 

I have already spoken about some of the villagers and in time, with said embroidery they will become more colourful and of course animated. However, this character needs little adornment as he is a Jester often seen at ancient rural events having fun brandishing an inflated pig’s bladder on a stick and jingling his bells … as seen in Pieter Bruegel’s paintings during the 1500s, at a time when the impoverished community had little to celebrate.  No change there then.