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Sally: I’ve just tried on my bustlebelt and the hoop is round my knees- back to the drawing board….

Sophie: oh – how did that happen?!!!

Sally: It’s first time I’d tried it on with tools on and the weight drags it down so I’m now putting straps on the corset and raising the blind slats to higher slots. Bit fed up. Also eyelet on ribbon not durable enough so may have to redo. Feeling overwhelmed.

Sophie: Jelly looking good in fridge (phew). Is there anything I can do to help you? (being an omnipresent superhero)

Sally: I think I’m getting sorted. Now replacing straps with vinyl – looks better than the ribbon and easier because I don’t need to do eyelets. I can have the corset slightly slacker too now I have the shoulder straps on. Just hope the tools are in the right place after all this. I’m very good at constructing intricately then discovering it doesn’t work. I used to do physics like that- pages of mathematical computations, but as the original equation was wrong, they never worked out. Thanks for the offer of help- I think you might have enough on jellariously.

Sophie: Jellariously is the best word I’ve heard in ages – Submitting it to OED now for official approval! I know the feeling re wrong work I made a self ironing ironing board light box once – spent months and £s on it same problem, should have worked out basics first. I think we need an official advisor to intervene early doors but then that would be no fun!! GO FAILURE!

Sally: Or alternatively, we could be Failure Advisers as we know how to do it so well…

Sophie: Career possibilities are falling at our feet!!

Preparations are now coming together well now (I say this with fingers crossed to avoid tempting fate, let alone failure).

Armed with three brooms, 4 big wheels and eight coasters (which turned out to be the wrong ones – drat and double drat, back to RS Componants) I went to visit my ‘superfixer’ Hugh, who will be performing some ‘practical magic’ to make it all come together and turn them into three chariot/trollies/support systems.

Having seen Sally’s amazing bustlebelt I was starting to fret that I hadn’t started my own. However trusting in serendipity I have waited until ‘the time is right’. It was all dorment in my head, but responding to how the materials reacted to the idea produced some interesting results. Still to cover the internal hoop so that the whole thing is white.

Next week – first job is to collect a ton of sawdust – hope it fits in my car……