Getting Ready for Class</B

It occurs to me that I didn’t mention that on Thursday evening I went up to the local school and gave advice on speaking with an English accent! The play they are doing is a farce complete with twins {played by one man– and very good he was, too.} Anyway, an important part of the action was a laundry basket which was constantly referred to by the characters and every one of then said /larndree/ and not /lORNdree/ as I do! The other point I had to make was that they were misprouncing the name of one of the characters. In England there are few-to-no Ber-NARDs. Instead there are mostly BER_nards. The dog is a Saint BERnard. The writer is George BERnard Shaw! Apart from those things and one or two other tiny errors, these people did a lovely job with English accents. In fact the man who was playing the part of twins had a Scottish accent for the twin who "came down from the Orkneys" and an English accent for his brother, the Chief Constable.

Now, on to today. I have as near as makes no difference finished my paper. The only decision I have to make is whether to put the paragraph about why I chose this picture at the beginning or at the end. The instructor asked about this at the beginning of her list of questions so that is where I have it now. But I am at somewhat of a loss for an ending. It seems to me that it doesn’t really matter where I put the answers to her questions just as long as I have all the answers, right? So, I am going to read it to aloud to Fred both ways. This will not only give me his opinion of what sounds the best, but by reading it aloud, I will catch any errors I may have not seen when I read it to myself.

I went to the library this morning and trimmed the pictures with their paper cutter. I have started to put together the ten I am going have matted or mounted and in my portfolio for Thursday. I just got back from Walmarts where I got precut small mattboards, glue and some poster board. When I have finished writing here, I still have to vacuum the living room. Fred has just finished the stairs and the the area at the bottom of the stairs and they look really nice. However, if I don’t feel like vacumming this afternoon, I will get it done tomorrow because the company will not be here until later in the afternoon.

Until later…