Posted with Clues

Gday all you letter-a-week bloggers out there in blog land ...
Here is my contribution for April ...

Each letter has been photographed in a situation that gives a clue as to the title of the picture - and in all but one case - the title begins with the letter photographed !!!!!

Let's see who the clever ones are ... there may be a prize for the winner ... there again - there may not ... but the first blogger to guess all titles and post the answers in the comments box, will win international acclaim ...

Cheers - Ken

M ...
N ...
O ...
P ...
Q ...

R ...

Posted by Ken Munsie

A Day in the Life of K

... here we go - another day ...

6am - yawn - wow look at that - the sun's shining at last ...

6.15am - on with the joggers and off we go ...

7am - breakfast - the most important meal of the day ...

7.30am - and while I'm still alert enough ... meal for the brain ...

33 across - three letters - beginning with K and meaning "to know" ...

8.30am - into the workshop - amongst my friends ...

10.30 - I do love a good parade ...

11.30am - morning coffee at the Up Front Club with chums ...

afternoon - quality time with the family cat ... Purcell

7pm - just an ordinary-everyday-type dinner

9pm - catch-up on world news ...

11pm - "...would you mind closing the door please ..."

11.30pm - and finally to bed - to sleep - perchance to dream !!!

Life is certainly full when you are a K ...

I wonder what the other 25 get up to during the day ...

bought to you by Ken Munsie ..

Letters now a' cookin ...

After having been threatened with instant ex-communication by our Blog Leader if I didn't get my letters in by the end of this month, I have been frantically putting together my three-months-worth of "lettered stacks", and as I write this blog A to L are happily sitting in the kiln slowly getting hotter until in ten hours time they reach 1000 degrees - and have hopefully survived the experience ...







My seven-letter-stacks letters are made out of 'paper-clay' and in size are 7cm cubed. I make the paper-clay out of recycled office paper - which I shred then soak in water ( and a slurp ofbleach to kill any bacteria that might form ) for a month. I then put the paper through a device that pulps it, and then add the pulp to liquid clay ( also recycled ) and let stand for another couple of months. The mixture is then poured onto plaster blocks and left until the clay is ready to work with. I love working with paper-clay as it is so forgiving and enables the artist to create forms and joins that normal clay just couldn't cope with.


A to L stacks ready to be fired ...

The letter-stacks are first fired to 1000 degrees ( bisque ) - then I paint them with a cobalt glaze and fire again to 1080 degrees ... and if all goes well I will open the kiln door next week and there will be 'A to L' in all their blue glory - stay tuned.


Loading my letters into the kiln with June's rats !!! ...

cheers - Ken Munsie