Very often what you imagine and the reality are very different.

So after spending a month making William the Mariner I arrived with him at the location where I was supposed to do a “walk around” and decided not to, it was in my mind not somewere that I wanted to spend more than 10 minutes, very noisy, crowded and as I had had no communication from the organiser I felt detatched and not appreciated for my efforts, so after some lunch and stroll about popped back on the train and headed for home.

A lesson I am very slowely learning, when you do something for free, people very often have little respect or appreciation beyond a word of encouragement, so don’t expect it, instead do it because you enjoy the process/it builds towards something bigger.

Skill building and creating something beautiful is the ultimate goal, of course we want to help others by what we do in some way, but they are not reliable sources of validation, instead the making process itself needs to be the be all and end all in my opinion.

Ultimately the well will fill and others will in often unpreditable ways drink from it and maintain it’s continued supply.

I am still happy with William and many lesson were learned in his making, he is ready to go out into the world.