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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I haven't run - unless you count something looking like a penguin in a hurry - for a good many years.  I'm not going to run in this direction, either - here are you, 5 foot two and eyes of blue, planning a large sculpture when you've never sculpted anything before?  Have you taken leave of your senses, madam?  I mean, there's ambition, experiment, and then there's sheer folly! However, if anyone can do it .... just make sure the final structure is safe; doesn't impale anyone; and more seriously, if you're using scrap metal - do be aware that some materials you might find in a scrapyard can be quite toxic; and brittle - and can snap under pressure, which could be something of a snag to your future prospects if your head happens to be in their way at the time.  

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Cor blimey Robert....don't take the fun out of the girls project.  Though ,yes there maybe hazards.  
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Just hoping to help her live through the experience, Sylvia, that's all.  Safety first has ever been one's watchword (actually, that's two words, but I'm sure you're not one to quibble).  No, I wouldn't stand in her way - might be dangerous - but on the other hand, I do hope Denise is adequately aware of the risks, and remembers the words of W C Fields: "if at first you don't succeed, try again, and then give up: no sense in being a damn' fool about it". 

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Love the idea and all the comments too! Enthusiasm is brilliant! Makes life exciting! Good luck Denise! My daughter has a sheep, made by a friend, made of slabs of concrete.

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Wise words Robert and I have always been safety conscious. It came from risk assessment and management courses I did, years spent in the NHS. I pretty much apply risk assessment to all walks of life. One example would be, if I go on holiday, the first thing I do on entering the building, is look at fire exits, look at routes out of the building, check the security of the building and so on. If I'm unfamiliar with something, I'll find the in's and out's of it, with no stone unturned. Precautions and advanced planning, that's how my brain works. I want to make it the main piece in the garden and I always like a big challenge. The dogs also run about in the garden so I will be sure to make it, ultra safe and secure. If I hit any potholes along the way, which I'm sure I will, I will find out and learn how to overcome them, the right way. I'm excited but under no illusion this will be a difficult task for me but so looking forward to it. I do believe some things are not achievable, for example, reaching outer space, well some rich people can achieve that but not me. Things like this are in ones grasp and I believe can be achieved and that's why I will try. Of course if I won the lotto, that outer space trip might move into the achievable.😆

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That sounds wonderful Marjorie and I can see how the concrete would make a great wooly body. I bet it looks beautiful.

Fiona Phipps

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It’s a brilliant idea and you will find it has endless possibilities Denise. I’ve made a lot of metal sculptures over the years and have enjoyed the challenge of making something from rubbish.  I would trawl through my farmer friends rubbish piles…..you can get some very interesting and unusual agricultural scrap…..your imagination can go wild with. My favourite scrap is old rusty barbed wire, farmers have lots of it kicking around! My husband bought me a welder for my 50th birthday, once you get the hang of it you can do anything. Marjorie mentioned concrete, I’ve used Gunnera leaves as a mould and made bird baths etc. I once saw a Buffalo made of rusty barbed wire, it was incredible! Good luck!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Winning the lottery - oh, perchance to dream!  If I did, I'd buy enough lead paint to last me up to my 95th birthday, by which time I should surely either have died or packed all effort in.  And my own spacious studio.  And a proper easel, as stable as a wardrobe and just as commodious.  Trips to the moon could wait - after all, it's never come to see me, why should I go to see it?  Stand-offish, that's what it's been, and it'll just have to live with the consequences. As you'll see from the lead paint, I do take manageable risks: i.e., those in which the risk is far more apparent than real.  My greatest risk, over which I haven't much control, is living in an area of landslip - which actually took part of this house - once a mansion - away.  But as my landlord says - I'd never have bought property out here! - it's as "safe as houses". I feel sure there's a flaw in his reasoning, but can't quite work out what it might be.  
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