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Thank you to the @peacemuseumuk for giving me access to some amazing banners from the Greenham Common Peace Camp today. Lots of inspiration for my current project #batextilespractice @bradfordtextiles #greenhamcommonpeacecamp #thaliacampbell #ban
Looking forward to spending time with the work of the @the62group tomorrow as I take my turn at invigilating their exhibition at Salts Mill. #textileart #62grouptextileartists
Experimenting with juxtaposition. No quilts were harmed in this experiment. #canadianredcrossquilt #greenhamcommonbanner #armybarracks #textileproject3 #batextilespractice @bradfordtextiles
Another great session at the BQSG seminar. @joethequilter took us through his Quilting Life. Lots of inspiration for the future. Thanks to @thequiltersguild and #qgbibqsg
Excellent talk from Helen of the @bradfordtextiles to the British Quilt Study Group seminar. We’ll be visiting the archive for a study day in the Spring. #quiltersguildbqsg @thequiltersguild #britishquiltstudygroup
An excellent morning diving into the Quilters Guild Collection to look at three of their Canadian Red Cross quilts. Each with a story to tell, we know a little but it would be lovely to know more. @thequiltersguild #batextilespractice @bradfordtext
A planned visit to @whitechapelgallery to see the exhibition Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent was turned into a lesson from the master! @peterkennardx was there to speak with a small group of students, but he gamely took on the much larger crowd who
Spotting banners of various kinds while on holiday in Liverpool. Never not thinking about textile projects. #Fdatextilespractice @bradfordtextiles @museumofliverpool @livcathedral #protestart #banners
Many thanks to @thinicepress for a great workshop today. It turns out that it is very difficult to proofread the back to front type 😊. #letterpressprinting
I have come to the end of the FDA at Bradford College and am about to embark on the course to top it up to a BA in Textiles Practice. Reflecting on what I have learned and can take forward I looked through all my sketchbooks from the last 4 years. He

I'm off ...

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School hasn't quite finished but I am off on a trip. I am going to an astronomy education conference in Granada - and I am quite excited. I've never been to Spain, so that will be interesting and I am really getting into astronomy at the moment.

I don't expect to run while I am there, it is a very full programme, but when I get back I shall have 7 weeks to train properly with no excuses.

Back next week.

With some photos.

Granada Diary

A week off