tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22603614814776909582024-03-13T10:51:41.674-07:00The Taliesin Stones'Through - this door, be proud - As a blackbird, - Where the humble fern - Blossomed to stone,- Then look back again. This - Door. The Taliesin Stones at Strata Florida Abbey. Two poems by Gwyneth Lewis, my role is to present them using mosaics.Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-1475150936317922802013-09-09T07:34:00.004-07:002013-09-09T08:00:12.760-07:00Finished<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Completed Installation at Strata Florida</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hired a caravan for 5-6 weeks and completed the project in Aug. The weather was changeable and my first tent was reduced to scrap metal after high winds and thunder storms.</span><br />
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<br />Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-46359408132676058572012-08-06T15:52:00.002-07:002012-08-06T15:52:26.401-07:00The Pilgrim by Glen Morris.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP5J7ULK5akbuS0tBSYA4HTXfy7l5f_0Cjf2fxJ1_3lLxb0zQU4YjVuDYHiqWIyUR3J9NSg_H7s7yQNezIQEbLnbWr3qApTqlmzXOQRAraLeoP_vmbfy3XzB0EsbFHSKkW4vrI9PPZLIj4/s1600/the+pilgrim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">While I was at Strata Florida I noticed a figure on the horizon.....on the nearest hill- top behind the Abbey! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I asked the staff at the Abbey how long had this been there? as I had not noticed it on my last visit....It turns out it was part of an organised event, about a month or so ago. Something to do with a University, but I am sadly not up to speed on news and events happening locally and don't know any details. All I really do know it was made by Glen Morris.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'I've got to have a closer look, how do I get up to it?'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'If you go along the lane, over a stile on the left and just climb up the hillside should take you about 25 mins to get there', was the reply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So I walked off with my camera...couldn't see a stile but climbed over a rusty metal gate into a field of sheep and went up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It was so steep I could not see the top of the hill and I walked past the sculpture without knowing it. When I did see it I could make out what I thought were tufts of wool blowing in the very strong wind. I thought the sheep must have brushed against it or something? Then as I got closer I could see tufts of wool all over the sculpture. I thought that was an odd but somehow relevant detail as the hillside was covered in sheep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I was so impressed with this work. I realised I had been on a micro pilgrimage to reach it. This figure striding through the landscape searching for something significant seemed to me to represent myself, and probably you as well on a journey, looking for some kind of awakening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The backdrop was spectacular and would have been worth seeing on its own. I'm not saying I could see the Holy-Land but it made me think that we had forgotten the instructions on how to live on the earth.....You know it's supposed to be a two way thing...we breath out what trees breath in, and trees breath in what we breath out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> And maybe this pilgrim was also our Grandfather</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When I got back to the Abbey I explained how good the sculpture was and that the tufts of wool were a odd but thought provoking detail making an earthy connection to mankind and the natural world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'Oh I think he was wearing a woollen coat or sheep's fleece when he was made' was the reply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well...that does make sense as the wind was so strong up there it had blown his coat away. It was so windy up there I was unable to stand upright and take photographs. If you look they are totally out of focus where I was buffeted so strongly by the wind, unless I was laying flat on the ground. </span><br />
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placement of the stones at Strata Florida. I left from Kent before 4.45am and the stones left the Midlands somewhere near Stafford, I dont know what time they started but they got to Strata Florida about 3minutes before me. I saw several sheep happily munching grass by the roadside in the lanes approaching Strata Florida, not something I'm used to. But they were chilled and didnt seem to mind being on the wrong side of the fence!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">finished stone left my <br />
workshop several weeks<br />
ago, stayed in storage.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">arrival at Strata Florida,<br />
it's a bigger lorry than<br />
I was expecting!</td></tr>
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The unloading of the stones went very smoothly and the driver was very patient and helpfull. The grass outside was firm and dry and our fears of a juggernaught getting stuck on the mud just outside were not realised, it was sunny. The only week of sun after a couple of months consistant rain (even the hose pipe ban in Kent was lifted) no such problems here it seems.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">easy when you got the <br />
right equipment</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lorry driver was the first<br />
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We set the stones out in a arc, so they provided a photo opportunity for visitors to sit on in front of the famous doorway. It all went with military prescion, no straps broke, no damage done and lorry did'nt get stuck. Smashing. Then soon after the lorry went a visiting family came and sat on the stones and started walking round following the lines of poetry that spiral round it. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No let me read it it says, .....Pass <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through this door </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into Christ, the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">expanding .</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Universe. Dimension: </span></td></tr>
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They asked me how long has it been here then?<br />
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I said about 10 minutes.Are we the first to see it then? yes thats right did you not see the giant lorry/crane and us lswinging them into place? No missed that, looks like they have been here for ages...............<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Find your own elsewhere.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the inspiration for our sign</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> I have uploaded a selection of images to create a slide show showing the sign being made at the initial mosaic workshop, and then its progression through several stages untill finished. It looks good in my back garden at the moment, but when I next travel to the site I will hand it over the staff at Strata Florida.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In the mean time before work starts on site here is the actual poem I have been working on, written by Gwyneth Lewis especially commissioned by CADW for the site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">S<strong>trata Florida.......</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Soil is the dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of all ages. Pass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through this door</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Into Christ, the expanding</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Universe. Dimension:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Wonder. Uplands bare,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Riches below. Through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This door, be proud</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a blackbird,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where the humble fern</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Blossomed to stone,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Then back again. This</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Door. Find your own elsewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now. The future. Then. Then now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">By Gwyneth Lewis (the first Welsh Natational Poet).<br /><a href="http://www.gwynethlewis.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gwynethlewis.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am on the last few 2-3 lines of the poem now and I hope to push on with it during the rest of this week. I am starting to think....how will I do the plain areas without any lettering? </span></div>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-87641996156334189112012-05-25T23:41:00.002-07:002012-05-25T23:41:58.271-07:00Mosaic Progress 2Slowly things progress along, if I complete a whole line in one day that is my equivelent of a forced route march. Yesterday I only managed to do n<span style="color: #990000;">. </span><span style="color: #990000;">B</span>loss still every little helps. I am well over half way in terms of text, but still quite a bit of stone to cover. This must mean that there will be plain areas of white to cover.<br />
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I have a ritual every morning where I have to scrub and clean up yesterdays work. If I leave it longer than overnight then the cement finger prints I make and the squirt up through the gaps bits are really hard and more difficult to remove. If I try and remove them after the end of the final session it's all to soft and I damage what I just made.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">a good scrub with a stiff brush and a tidy up with a metal thing every morning</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Free to everyone, talks on history and poetry. Recitals of work from poets, and picnic lunches in a medieval style. For a very good account of the days activities see Hiliares blog <a href="http://storingmagic.blogspot.co.uk/">click here</a>. My role was to run a mosaic workshop as a way of introducing my sculpture for the site. I showed photos of the work in progress and displayed the maquettes I had made for presentations to CADW earlier. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Here is the sign when I bought it home after a fun day out in the Abbey ruins. It is made on paper using what is called the reverse technique. I took a large piece of slate home with me to complete the sign and mount it for display. I also was very pleased to meet Gwyneth Lewis whose poems I am working on. </span><br />
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</tbody></table>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-1657133209601968782012-05-15T16:05:00.000-07:002012-05-15T16:05:14.887-07:00Shocker...................!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Approaching half way and had a sticky moment this morning! I don't have enough tiles in stock to complete this whole stone so I order some more from the supplier I have used for over 20 years........only today their phone is dead? I email them with a tile order, but deep down I've got that feeling they may have ceased trading as things just felt strange. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I spent most of the day trying to source the same tiles to complete the job. I spoke to a general UK tile distributer who passed me onto my recomended dealer for that particular manufacturer and tile range.........The upshot was my tiles were not in stock and it would take in the region of 6 weeks to get some. Further more I could not order single sheets either and could only buy tiles by the box full, thats 14 sheets to box. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I only need one sheet of that colour 2 sheets of another you know 3 of that one etc .....madness to wait 6 weeks and buy a thousand percent more materials than you require. Great service from my new supplier, thanks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Later in the day I recieved an email to say sadly yes we recently ceased trading, the long and the short of it is: get your tiles from <span style="color: red;">The Mosaic Workshop</span> for their website <a href="http://www.mosaic-workshop.co.uk/">click here</a>. They bought what was left of the entire stock of my previous supplier. Panic over and my tiles should arrive by the end of the week......The future of mosaic tile distribution may look a little different if information today proves to be correct? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> </span>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-53457725311796129522012-05-14T01:39:00.000-07:002012-05-14T02:06:21.161-07:00'Giornata' (a days work).<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I was surprised at having to pay £12.50 for this tool, I thought it was a lot for little metal trowel spreader thing. But it is a great tool and invaluable on this job, really good for what I call 'cutting back' which is removing the unused cement around the tiles where another work session will join it. The term 'giornata' is Italian and means a days work. This was very relevant during the Renaissance when painting frescoes, as it was the new lime plaster applied today, joining the wok done yesterday. In some old paintings these joins can be seen as slightly different coloured pigments show one days work from another. My concern is the same, in that cement dried yesterday around the edge of the tiles prevents the new tiles from being positioned very close and seamlessly. If done badly a black grout line will appear if the gap is a little too large. This tool is great at removing the excess cement for good joins.<br />
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I have other trowel/spreaders but this is great and now I think very good value for my £12.50. <br />
I also bought a pair of new tile nippers which a great. Very good at cutting tiles into thirds, which is what I need for the black lettering. I have well over a dozen pairs of nippers all rubbish at cutting thirds. Maybe it is important to have sharp nippers and I forgot what it was like, or maybe these are just a great pair of tile nippers..<br />
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-73971458477154976622012-05-10T05:11:00.001-07:002012-05-10T05:11:30.529-07:00Mosaic Progress<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I thought I would just put a couple of photos on here to show progress. Things have moved along and it's easier to imagine the whole stone now. I think it will look amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I wonder if I will be able to remember the whole poem by the time I'm finished? Words are not my medium, but I really get what Gwyneth's talking about, as I'm so close to it now.</span>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-46789429874849520332012-05-07T16:20:00.001-07:002012-05-08T16:07:25.911-07:00'Through this door'<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's a slow process, three short lines of poetry in a couple of days! I am always anxious at the beginning of every mosaic until enough is done to see what things will look like. Things have not quite progressed enough to get a really good idea, but enough to want to rush on with it and get more done. I am sure I won't be feeling like that on the last few lines of the poem on the lower sections of the stone. I have not been able to clean off my finger prints and general mess from the tiles as the cement had not fully dried. I should be able to give it a good scrub in the morning, this will help see what things are looking like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'Through this door'. Is very evocative as I mentioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesnes_Abbey">Lesness Abbey</a> where I used to go as a child. The ruins were not so impressive as they had more formal public space around them, which diluted their effect somehow. There were woods nearby as well which were exciting too, so the whole Abbey Ruins thing was woods, public gardens and the Abbey Dungeons. They were not really dungeons, but any room below ground level is going to be one when your ten. There was also a door in a stone wall that I remember quite clearly. Not a main entrance doorway like the one at Strata Florida, just abit more of a regular door (stone archway though) in a flinty rocky wall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Strange really as the poet whose work I am transcribing (<a href="http://www.gwynethlewis.com/biography.shtml">Gwyneth Lewis</a>) remembers Strata Florida as a young girl, in the same way as I remember my Abbey Ruins. I think I will have re-visit them when I can. Take photos even do some drawings! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I did walk through the Abbey and get really lost in those woods there one night when I was silly enough to walk home thinking it would be a short cut (I had had a couple of larger shandies) and was totally lost for ages. When I did get home it was time to get up! must have been in the early eighties. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My 'Through this Door' memory - Lesness Abbey </span><br />
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</tbody></table>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-86171843945752908112012-05-03T16:12:00.005-07:002012-05-08T16:09:35.254-07:00Strata Florida<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The abbey was originally founded in 1164. The name Strata Florida is a corruption of the Welsh Ystrad Fflur, meaning Valley of (the river of) Flowers, according to Wikipedia. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For more information about the Abbey (<a href="http://www.castlewales.com/strata.html">click here</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Through this door as the poem suggests </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">are the </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">remains of the Abbey. I grew up in SE London and I was reminded of a similar ruin, Lesnes Abbey in Abbey Wood. I sometimes went there on my bike through the woods during summer holidays. It was difficult back then, and still is now to imagine what these places were really like, </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">back back in the day when they were the centre for the whole area. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A mural in the visitor centre at Strata Florida showing a busy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">thriving community at and around the Abbey. Hard to imagine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">compared to the serenity if you visit today.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I spent my day arranging the poem on the stone, rubbing it out because it didn't fit, making it fit, moving it around so it fitted better. I had a sense of how I wanted it to look, and was able to fit the poem on evenly distributed and spaced over the whole stone. My commissioner asked me if the making of this work was organic? </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yes this initial layout was really organic process, intuative and involved many calculated guesses. From here on in it will be more mechanical with a little bit of unkown to keep you concentrating all the time. I am actually really looking forward to starting, but frustratingly I have a meeting in the morning so wont get to work on it till the afternoon.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">sample I made for 1st poem in English on slate coping stones</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Things will actually be the other way around now. English on the boulder in my workshop and the Welsh on the coping stones, which will be done on site. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the lettering will be obscured by the cement used to stick the</span><br />
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12524719003409556076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260361481477690958.post-77023855558090458682012-05-02T17:05:00.001-07:002012-05-08T16:09:19.827-07:00You're going to write a poem on a boulder?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'You're going to write a poem on a boulder?' .......I explained this to a couple of suppliers as I sourced suitable rocks. I explained it to the tool hire company when hiring a pallet truck. 'You're going to write a poem on a boulder'? I explained it to my my neighbour who saw the boulder arrive at my workshop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">'How are you going to do that then?' </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Watch this blog is probably the answer to that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">'Is it an organic process?' It most definatley is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">'How do you know it will fit on?' Because I will write it on first.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Steve at <a href="http://www.specialistaggregates.com/">Specialist Aggregates</a> sources boulders of different types. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I managed to hire a pallet truck with a hydrolic leak, which was unable to lift it up off the ground and I could'nt get it in my workshop. A nice guy drove out from the hire shop and filled the truck with fluid and asked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">'Why have you got a boulder ........right .........You're going to write a poem on it? ......oh your not actually writing the poem your copying it onto it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I got a reduction off my hire charge as the truck was a bit rubbish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">They are Welsh Granite and will be going back to Wales. Strata Florida to be specific.</span><br />
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