The Cooler King

Let me tell you what I learned this week:

1)Just be a little careful about what you let yourself in for

2)Never EVER cut corners on preparation

3) and always use the right materials for the task

If I was only allowed to offer one piece of advice it would be the middle one, Never EVER cut corners on preparation.

Just the other day I wrote a slightly flippant line about the real test of skill if your calling yourself a craftsman is how you fix things when they start going wrong!

So Hephaestus son of Zeus, architect of Mount Olympus, Master Smith and great Artificer, has heard me say this and looked down on me and said, ‘Well…..indeed things can go wrong so let’s watch you deal with this …. and man he has bowled me a googlie, sent me a curve ball.

Briefly: I have agreed to install a set of mosaics made by someone else! Yeah no worries I said.

I can’t even get the tiles anywhere near to where they need to go as they don’t really have any glue holding them onto the paper cartoon, and fall off if touch them. There is no reference system drawn on it for re-assembly. There’s more, there’s so much more, just little things which all added together make real obsticles. Good luck with that then Rob. My words have bit my arse and all I will say is I have not managed to stick any tiles in place yet and my friend has worked hard on these for months and months, and needs help to get over the finish line with this,……………….. and Jesus H Christ I’ll be glad when it’s over.

The King: The Castle Builder and The Magician (cont).

The Castle Builder contacted the Magician to say that sorry the papers were not ready yet, but they were nearly ready and there was one or two small details to clarify before they could be dispatched. The magic has to be cast in two phases and in which order were the spells going to be done?……and the Castle Builder suggested a change to the payment schedule: with the magician getting more for services in the middle of the performance and less at the end.

The reason for the delay was due to the fact that there are two Kings. One rules the town and looks after the good townsfolk, the other King rules the wide spaces and lands around the town. Now your magic falls into the communal spaces that are owned by no-one, but used by everyone and if the magic needs repair or modification later after the Castle Builder has gone away to other lands, which King is the one who will contact you the Magician for magic repair or advise?

The Magician has been busy working with both animals and children in wild places and spent little time in his potions cellar. Some of his recent spells and tricks can be seen without you even having to get out of your chair. The magic is brought all the way to you, as if you had visited the places.

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STOP PRESS

The contract has arrived – JUST THIS MINUTE- and is 10 pages long. I’ll read it later.