It's a LOT -TERY!

So it's official I have man flu. Actually it's going off a bit now, and I was right, no one who had it last week can remember how awful it is. But at least Ive stopped shivering and sweating and have my hearing back. Maybe not such a great thing as every one's arguing is now back in crystal clarity. SO, the Lottery!! I feel like I've won it, it might be so much less satisfying to leave it to luck and fill out a few lucky numbers. I will content myself that the hours, no really, THE HOURS spent trying to justify a little idea and get it down in writing and then re-write it because it sounds naff until it's been re-written to many times it no longer looks or feels like your original idea. But it also feels like an imposing responsibility to have to justify what we intend to spend the nation's hard earned cash on. It had better be good. I had a completely sleepless night again last night and felt like a light bulb went off again on another track, I can already here my working partner Guy "groaning" every time I say those four little words...I try to run them together to less effect "ivehadanidea" but to no effect. i think we need a community website - to bring together the four parishes - I will call it "parish-oot" and have a logo of a parachute with four little strings spelling out the village names of Birse, Ballogie, Finzean and Strachan - all attached in the middle to a big fat pink heart (the heart of the community) it will incorporate the Strachan e-zine, the Ballogie Bugle and the Finzean Rabbit - all community newspapers. But it can also give joined up news on the 2 schools, the 3 halls, the work of the community trust, a business directory - AND most importantly will keep everyone up to date on the Portrait of Our Time as it progresses. I'm really supposed to be wrapping christmas pressies before the boys come home from school - only 4 more days of freedom before the dreaded holidays begin.......and ive been asked to talk to a lady about light on a radio programme. How bizarre. There is hardly any at the moment -fleeting. She wanted me to speak about my affinity with the light and how we live in the same area that Joe Farquharson painted hhis extra-ordinary light in. Ive tried telling her I dont paint light then we went off on a tangent about how light has an effect on everything and she said can I come and record our chat with you for the radio and I said I might run of things to say on the subject, and she said "I suspect you won't"!!!