{"id":182,"date":"2008-07-01T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-07-01T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T09:03:00","slug":"messy-tuesdays-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Messy Tuesdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our kitchen roof collapsed.<\/p>\n

It was an old roof, made of horsehair plaster and lime and it had been threatening to give way for some time. I was not here when it happened and neither was Mark, so neither of us got to hear the deafening thud of huge lumps of plaster crashing down onto the sink… a pity. I expect it was a fantastic noise! The frying pan that was sat on the draining board was destroyed.<\/p>\n

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Mark decided to pull down the rest of the ceiling over the weekend and put plasterboard up. He pulled down the ceiling while I assembled the gameshow spinner for ‘Try to name the object situation or location beginning with the letter on the spinner from only the sound…’ for EXPO this weekend.<\/p>\n

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I confess to being too overwhelmed by the enormity of the mess when he had finished pulling down the old ceiling to have taken a photo of that. THAT would have been a Messy Tuesdays post par excellence, but I didn’t have the presence of mind to do that. At first it was kind of scary to see the kitchen so beyond<\/span> acceptable, so utterly<\/span> ravaged. 11 sacks of rubble have since left the kitchen, and this is what’s now left.<\/p>\n

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Only one small corner of bare ceiling remains; this shall be repaired tonight and then some kind of order, restored.<\/p>\n

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After my initial shock at the mess, piling through the tasks associated with pulling the show together – the sewing, the building, the mending, the organising, the painting, the editing, the making – I kind of relaxed into the chaos of the insane kitchen. I decided to take inspiration from observing its stunning transformation as Mark climbed ladders, affixed plasterboard and proceeded with dauntless optimism in the face of this enormous DIY task.<\/p>\n

Mess is a kind of reminder that from chaos comes order, eventually. When it is in this transitory phase, it’s like you’re in a kind of limbo, between one state and the next and there is an enormous energy in that space. It’s a space beyond order, a state of mess-in-being, where almost anything can be accomplished. It’s much easier to pick up a paintbrush and start painting when there is no immaculate surface nearby to spoil.<\/p>\n

So this was an exciting, if daunting, mess. On the other side of it I hope we will have a more solid and secure kitchen roof and a completed radio show!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m enjoying the flux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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