by Heather Thomas | Jul 30, 2019 | A Practice for Summer
STORYTELLINGThis week´s chapter, tomatoes. Once upon a time, people feared tomatoes, thinking them to be poisonous. Germans believed that tomatoes attracted werewolves and whilst Early British settlers did not have the same superstition, they remained wary of...
by Heather Thomas | Jun 21, 2019 | A Practice for Summer
STORYTELLING: THE SUMMER SOLSTICEBurn baby, burn. This is no disco inferno. SUMMER is HERE! And are you all fired up? In Copenhagen we ARE! Bonfires were burning all over Denmark at the summer solstice. Why? Well those pesky evil spirits begone from the fields. The...
by Heather Thomas | Jun 17, 2019 | A Practice for Summer
STORYTELLINGI learned a new word this week! PAREIDOLIA. We humans have two great needs in life: security and meaning. Our innate storytelling capability serves both. That´s why we experience pareidolia – that sensation of looking at something, like a cloud, and...
by Heather Thomas | Jun 3, 2019 | A Practice for Summer
STORYTELLING: How would June be different without strawberries?Can you imagine June without strawberries? What would they eat at Wimbledon? Strawberries tune me into NOW like no other food. Mainly because I am bloody fruit deprived by the time they come round as I...