The crow, the witch and the octopus.
One of those weird, crazy days today that starts off surreal and continues in the same vein. Woke up to find a giant crow flapping round the bathroom, having somehow made its way down the chimney and proceeded to throw itself against the window for many hours and left a beautiful mess to deal with in the process. Then I managed to spill dog mixer all over the kitchen floor. The highlight of this screwy day had to be a photo shoot with the local newspaper, with me as the most awkward model in history. To top things off, the mini me decided to take two hours to go to sleep. Ah, kids. Couldn’t eat a whole one.
The one bonus of this imposed sabbatical from the laptop had to be the hundred or so pages of Gregory Maguire’s magickal/political pastiche of witchery in Oz, ‘Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West’. Having made the ill-informed decision that this would be appropriate reading matter for said mini me while going to sleep (ha!), I was more than taken back by the dry, often harsh, boudoir humour of the book – but like a heart in a tin man, it’s grown on me. The green-skinned Elphaba is a joy of a character, all done-wrong-by, wrongfully green, and plumped full of subterranean knowledge like a bad apple. Gorgeously dark, mind-engaging stuff.
On the writing front, I’m currently working on a short story for an anthology of women writers. I’m eking it out, but the going is slow because there seem to be a million and one tasks to complete and, somewhat disappointingly, I haven’t sprouted octopussy arms. So I thought I would add to the chaos by having a reading and signing session on the 1st August!
Good job I’ve discovered a new favourite tipple. Hendricks…gin. Well, old habits die hard.
Love and dark light.
Kim Lakin-Smith x
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