Butterfly vs. evil spiderman
Suburban soul- an impression
For four days in October half term oxygen is very involved in helping run Suburban Soul. Organised by various churches in Kingston and New Malden. Everyone is eagerly joining in, whether as a guitarist in the worship band or as rumba dancers in the old people's home.
During the week some of us had more guts than others and faced up to the challenge of creative biscuit decoration and are still lying helpless in bed as a result: not tough enough to survive the enormous and inavoidable consumption of blue and pink icing sugar without scathe. Right at the beginning it was clear what my post of danger was to be: face painting. Now this may not seem to amount much at first sight, but have you ever tried to paint a spider's web onto the face of a restless three-year-old, or to convince a seven-year-old girl that a blue butterfly is just as pretty as a pink one, the pink paint having run out? Then again one has the limitation that there should be no horrid faces. Of course, no child wants to look like a ghost or a monster or a vampire.
Luckily, superheroes never look scary, and if you use enough glitter, even evil spiderman looks like a butterfly.
For four days in October half term oxygen is very involved in helping run Suburban Soul. Organised by various churches in Kingston and New Malden. Everyone is eagerly joining in, whether as a guitarist in the worship band or as rumba dancers in the old people's home.
During the week some of us had more guts than others and faced up to the challenge of creative biscuit decoration and are still lying helpless in bed as a result: not tough enough to survive the enormous and inavoidable consumption of blue and pink icing sugar without scathe. Right at the beginning it was clear what my post of danger was to be: face painting. Now this may not seem to amount much at first sight, but have you ever tried to paint a spider's web onto the face of a restless three-year-old, or to convince a seven-year-old girl that a blue butterfly is just as pretty as a pink one, the pink paint having run out? Then again one has the limitation that there should be no horrid faces. Of course, no child wants to look like a ghost or a monster or a vampire.
Luckily, superheroes never look scary, and if you use enough glitter, even evil spiderman looks like a butterfly.
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