Gingerjo’s Blog

Phew.  I’m not sure if it’s a good idea after my miserable failure to complete the last 10 week OU course I enrolled on but I have just joined the new T189 Digital Photography: Creating and Sharing Better Images course at the OU.  It doesn’t start until May and I’m hoping that work will have quietened down enough for me to have time to complete this course.  It’s only level 1 so I’m hoping it won’t involve quite as much homework as the last one.  It says you do photography exercises every week.  At least in May/June the weather should be nice with long evenings so maybe Mark and I can combine the exercises with evening walks while I look for things to take photos of.  Knowing my luck though it will involve setting up still life images in the living room with fruit and sheep skulls.  That was all we ever seemed to do in Art lessons in school. Deeply uninspiring.

So yesterday afternoon was my first volunteering session for the Made in Africa exhibition at Bolton Museum. It was great the see the exhibit in all this glory - with the finished perspex cases displaying the tools and images on the walls.  I was there, with a member of the museum staff, to man the handling table. The table has a rubber mat on top so that if someone drops one of the artefacts it would land on the soft rubber, limiting the possibility of damage.

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A couple of months ago there was a call for volunteers to help with ‘handling sessions’ for the ‘Made in Africa’ exhibition at Bolton Museum this Easter.  I stepped forward.  It’s not something I’ve ever done before, or ever considered doing, but the chance to learn about and handle some of the oldest human artefacts ever discovered doesn’t come along every day, especially in Bolton. They held the training session with British Musuem staff today.

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I go to a pottery class every Thursday after work. This is great, except that it doesn’t start til 6.30pm so I have to wait around for an hour and a half. Since I’m trying to avoid shopping - there being a Next, a Boots, a Sainsburys and now a Brantanos lurking between me and my pottery class waiting to leap out, steal my credit card and spend all my money - I generally stay at work so that I can avoid tempatation and maybe catch up on a few things. Sometimes I just can’t be arsed hanging about though. It’s all I can do not to just toddle off home and watch the telly.

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