agree, the whole thing would be nightmarish to keep clean, though perhaps demented cleaning is one of the things that keeps that woman from taking an axe to her relatives..

as they used to say 'flat as an ironing board', she looks a bit like that..

what kind do you make? with a machine, with metal? hand-made entirely? I've been a mad fanatical badge/brooch maker in my past.

The might need to be dug out of their secret safety bunkers

they must be allowed to experience those dreams, possibly under the label 'art-theatre' or 'immersive happenings' or some such, and perhaps with blindfolds.

*cackling*

I have had this 'dream' too (while waking) - more or less similar, allowing for group and solo workshop spaces for artists/writers & space for visitors and animals. Didn't Richard Curtis buy a place he called 'the office' to rent to screenwriters? Or was that a dream I had?

hahaha!!

a very 'speaking' face, that dog wears..

My great wish is that after the war, Russia's vaunted Tchaikovsky Competition continues to be boycotted so long as Putin remains in power, and instead a new one is celebrated on the site of the composer's home in Ukraine that was destroyed.

www.classicfm.com/composers/tc...

That would be interesting.. hope there is time and peace enough for that kind of world to be enabled

He looks as if he's the inventor of Irish Dancing and is about to skip and kick his way out of that cloister.

I would happily have such a thing; even better, seen in Pennsylvania, a built-in beautiful wooden cabinet with masses of fittings to measure and sift and roll out, from a 'Victorian' wooden house with old Amish quilts everywhere. Loved it.

About that sheaf of wheat (odd conjunction) - i just saw news footage of Zelensky & others laying symbolic wheat-bouquets in memory of the Holodomor (mass starvation) in their history.

"You may not pass water here, human"

comme ci, comme ca, thank you & same to you!