Ah chummies, I am SO over the sensible shoes... and therein lies a textilosophy tale. When you have been diagnosed with a big osteoporosis reading, the doctor likes to put the fear of God into you about taking a fall, and gives you all sorts of literature about avoiding rugs,and tripping over coffee tables and cats or little dogs in the dark passageway ...and , the big one,wearing sensible shoes. Especially to work. Having silly back problems, I've been doomed to this sort of footwear for years anyway.Glamorous -not. So on Friday, I rebelled. I decided to wear some pretty shoes to work for a change- flats, to keep on the safe side,but pretty, glamorous, made a girl feel good. It was a good day. Cooking with the students, using brown rice, onion, and spring onions as ingredients. It even inspired a little textile piece! Doesn't that spring onion look good on that textile piece...

...but not on the floor. Ah yes, gentle reader, there laying in wait on the tile in the wet area of the classroom was an escaped fresh spring onion scrap...causing this teacher to skid on it with those pretty shoes, fly up in the air, and luckily, not land in a crash on her back, but rather a bizzare contortion of movements with a balletic rearrangement of the splayed left leg...

and in sheer shock, (and tai-chi fitness,)bounce right up again, thank God. Ha ha Spring Onion - no walking frame yet! Foiled!We even managed to laugh ourselves silly, all of us, after I had established that, no really, I was fine!!So, I am now working on this little textile piece, making it more...um..onionish... And the philosophy? Pride goes before a fall.... What do you do when you have to wear yuck footwear? Head north to the top of your head. Make yourself feel good with a brand new haircut.
...and hope nothing falls on your head.