Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
Our Christmas card in a telephone box is taking shape but we had a setback when members of the local Brownie group, who’ve been busy handcrafting Christmas decorations for the show, had to call off their final crafting session because of two cases of Covid.
Barbara came to the rescue and ran up the Christmas stockings and the Bonsai frosted fir trees, which, along with the Christmas card byline, we’d hoped to get the Brownies to make at a crafting session.
There isn’t room for all that we’d like to include in our Redbox Gallery Christmas show, but I think that we could fit in a few Christmas Creatures:
'T'was the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse . . .'
The night before Christmas: ‘a fire place with roaring fire & stockings hung down. Maybe a chair & table & treats left out for Santa on the table . . .’
That’s what we’re aiming for, now all we have to do is work out how to fit all that into the Redbox Gallery, the old telephone box on Queen Street, Horbury.
I’m designing the stage set and it will be up to the local Brownies to add the decorations. I think that I could fit a small fireplace diagonally across the far corner of the box but that doesn’t leave any room for a table and chair, so I’m imagining those as illustrated cut-outs, as if we were looking at a pop-up Christmas card.