I’ve been wanting for a while to write about support and how vital it is to actually achieving what you want to do (whatever that may be).
Doing this blog has been really helpful to me in that I suddenly do not feel that I am some lonesome little artist in a garret (a half decorated semi IS similar) working away pointlessly. And finding that there are other people out there having exactly the same trials and tribulations is a revelation. It finally feels as if there is a community I can actually belong to (even in cyberspace) who do speak the same language. Thank you!
I am also aware that I have been really fortunate in finding some key technologically able people, to help me. People who don’t automatically think that I am a complete madwoman. I am well acquainted with THAT LOOK – when you are in a shop (usually hardware) and the shopkeeper suddenly adopts a certain smile and I can feel an invisible ‘pat on the head’.
Thankfully my amazing electrician, may call me a madwoman, but is open to any bizarre idea and is willing to find creative solutions. He has saved the day more times than I can count.
Likewise at my local ‘hydraulic pump and hose’ shop (I know, I hang out in the coolest places) one of the assistants is amazing in helping me to facilitate my articulated socks – he tells me that it beats working….. and only partly has THE LOOK when I tell him that the socks ARE MY WORK!
