Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby and Death



Hubby is taking some well earned holiday at the moment so we drove up to Salisbury to see The Terry Pratchett exhibition. I must say it was wonderful although I did feel quite sad Sir Terry is no longer  walking this Earth amongst us but, like the painting, is playing chess with DEATH and possibly winning? If you haven't visited the exhibition yet, do go if you can. Not only is it quite interesting on his life and work, its great art that is so detailed you can walk back past them more than once as I did and still see things you had missed. Oh to be as talented at Paul....one can only dream!

The journey to Salisbury was, as always, bitter sweet. It brings back memories both happy and unpleasant. I spent some time in Odstock Hospital just outside Salisbury to rectify my cleft palate. Skin and bone grafts eventually gave me a face with a smile and a mouth able to take a new prototype brace. Thanks to my Dad I was lucky enough to have one of only 5 prototype braces in the UK in order to straighten my teeth rather than wear a denture for life. It was pretty horrendous and painful. It gave me awful bad breath and so many ulcers. Many years later they perfected the prototype to stick on the teeth rather than be banded around them with wire as mine was. My daughter, was to have one of these new 'train track' braces that evolved from mine over 30 years later..... How cool is that. 

Here is the link to the Museum, and if you have time pop to the Cathedral for a yummy cheese scone with some of their home made chilli jam/chutney.

http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/terry-pratchett-hisworld

love and light peoples 
dbee x





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