Caught in a timeless kind of snow world this week, where normal life seems to have been suspended in place of endless sledging and a house full of wet children, wet gloves and wet boots. School has been closed for four days now, it’s too hairy to get out of the village and the shop has run out of milk. In addition to our four children we had two Ugandan children staying from www.watoto.com, who had never seen snow before! A treat worthy of stopping work for a while.
I’ve been reading Rachel Howfields blog and wondering how she gets so much done. Perhaps working with four children is just a bridge too far. But I need to do this. I’ve spent time organising my interviews with local women, chasing links given by the health visitor, fiddling with recording equipment and purchasing a bat detector. The aim being to perhaps record some sounds unheard by humans at night and overlay them with words and recordings from the women interviewed.
On a really positive note, the studio is just about finished – now the pressure’s really on to make all that hard work and funding worthwhile!
