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Greetings from the Hollow Ships!

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Thanks so much to everyone who came to visit us today! It was great to hear about so many other people taking part. I really hope we can get out for a bit next week to visit some other venues. And who knew that combing ceramics, white curtains and excited toddlers could be, well, a little bit nerve racking? They don’t seem to mention this anywhere in the parenting books. It has been a VERY h ectic few - weeks? Months? Preparing for this but it has been great fun so far. We’re closed tomorrow for Adam’s 5th birthday party (go away rain) but will be opening the ships again next Saturday. I'll write more about the project in the week. I'll probably also use this as an excuse to write about other things that I feel are connected to it. Right, I have a dinosaur birthday cake to make... e17arttrail.co.uk  |  yaaritmechany.com  |  Hollow Ships Audio
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Hollow Ships and Other Vessels

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The Last Day

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Tomorrow is our last day of the e17 Art Trail. We've had a blast! Of course I've not seen anything I wanted to but I have really enjoyed the showing our project this year. YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE AUDIO HERE: folkintombaker.bandcamp.com YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YAARIT HERE: yaaritmechany.co.uk Hope to see you tomorrow!
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