Hello, my little kittens. Are we all feeling bite-sized today? I've got several little bits of my week to share. It's a bit of a doggie bag of scraps, but perhaps we'll make a meal of it. Whatever the ingredients, it's just another fluffy open thread set out for the community to dine on.
Dobrou chuť!
Last weekend I was out in the country pretending to be a gardener.
I took advantage of a free Monday to visit a friend downtown at the studio where he leads a life drawing class. I sat in on the last 45 minutes or so of the pose.
Then my friend and I went out for a beer.
Earlier today I was at Svět knihy Praha 2024, the yearly World of Books event held at the exposition grounds of Prague.
A friend of ours (a college classmate of Mrs the Werelynx) was signing her latest children's book, so I planned my visit to the book faire to correspond to when she'd be at her publisher's booth. And for the third year in a row now, I walked over to the exposition grounds with my aunt. We rather quickly parted ways as she's just entirely too chatty— in multiple languages, and didn't get past the first booth for nearly half an hour.
I really should bring some business cards with me to events like this. I bumped into a couple of distant relatives and later they ran into me again as I was talking with a couple of men at a booth. I was looking at a book with an illustration of a castle on it and Fabulous Mother-In-Law's cousin peeked around my shoulder and asked if I'd drawn it. That started up a conversation with the author of the book who happened to be looking for an illustrator. Maybe, we'll see, promises of e-mails to be exchanged followed by future discussions over coffee is all very vague and shadowy at this point.
I behaved myself— only about six new books.
After catching up again with my aunt to say my goodbyes, I took the scenic route past the construction work going on to restore the main exhibition hall, about half of which was destroyed by fire a few years ago.
The World of Books event was always held in this main building. I'm curious to see how far they get in their reconstruction efforts by next year's book faire.
Thanks for stopping by.
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