Blooming cold - again!

It was great to see the Watershed exhibition at Cliffe Castle again yesterday - and to work with it and a fresh group of 'victims'!  This was a multi-cultural group of Bradford women who I (and Musarat Raza - an excellent textile artist) then took up onto Rombald's Moor to experience the icy blast of moor wind, the smell of dying heather and sloppy peat, the feel of barbed wire and moss, and the singing songs that the wind made through the huge wireless towers up there - quite magical!  Musarat and I will be working with the ladies in Bradford next week to help them respresent their feelings about the moors in writing and textiles.  (Only one of them had ever been up on the moors before, and, although it was blooming freeeeeezing, they seemed to really enjoy it!  There were women from Pakistan, Algeria, Germany, a Nigerian baby, a Kurdish woman, as well as white British women from Bradford - thanks to you all for withstanding that awful wind!)