Papier-mache angel

just body and head. Wings made out of feathers, pink – what else?! Halo – cardboard painted silver. A fair weather angel. The wings sunlight bleached white after a while, spiders nested in her hair.

I made a brooch

...from your old cardigan buttons and some left over cable wire. Fastened together with a metal pin from the odds and ends drawer.

I painted a plant

...made up of dead birds. Hanging like petals held up by a stick. Did you notice the world inside? Excommunicated, not just a pretty flower.

The art of buffet eating:-

the paper plate should be creased upwards with the strain of scotch eggs. Never horizontal. Avoid space-sabotaging celery. The perfect V-shape is aspired to, balanced in the palm and negotiated to an empty chair.