Private Message to Shivani Johns
Feb. 7th, 2011 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_lanaSarah's show is dead amazing. You won't believe!
I saw the Rowles there yesterday at the reception, and they made a point of saying they had arranged a child-minder for Saturday because of the ball, so I guess you cleared it with them. Are they letting you come for the concert on the final night, too? I've got your ticket, if you can get there.
You're not going to believe it when you see it. All these gorgeous pavilions have gone up out there on the ice. I walked through the western bit of it yesterday after Sarah's reception, and they've created lanes along which hundreds of shops and pubs and carnival booths have sprung up. When you enter, they give you a map of it all that tells you where you are, and shows you a route to travel in order to find the places you want to see! It's like a new city's sprung up on top of the river. It's not even just shops and eateries, either: it's got squares and monuments and sport rings and a great amphitheatre made of ice.
You'd have been amazed to see how they created the ice: it took hundreds of charm-casters, working full days for a fortnight. And stasis specialists to hold it over night until the next layer could be cast each following day. They say it's nearly four feet thick.
I wondered about the fish and the tides, but they tell me the ice mostly sits atop the water (and the level is higher than usual now) so the fish are fine down below and the tides have been stopped above London bridge. The ice goes all the way to Westminster bridge, which is the western boundary for the Faire.
That means it's enormous!
Tonight, Ned and I are going to go down for supper after work. There's a Fresher's feast in a different place each night, but tonight it's going to be right up underneath London bridge, which will be utterly nift all enchanted and decked in fairy lights.
Anywiz, let me know what the Rowles have said, so we can make our plans together. (Oh, and I want to know what they told you about Sarah's photographs. They didn't seem in a hurry to leave at all, and I thought I heard Mr Rowle say to Mr Truncheon that he found some of them inspiring, but you never know what people really think when they're still in the room where the artist might hear them.)
I saw the Rowles there yesterday at the reception, and they made a point of saying they had arranged a child-minder for Saturday because of the ball, so I guess you cleared it with them. Are they letting you come for the concert on the final night, too? I've got your ticket, if you can get there.
You're not going to believe it when you see it. All these gorgeous pavilions have gone up out there on the ice. I walked through the western bit of it yesterday after Sarah's reception, and they've created lanes along which hundreds of shops and pubs and carnival booths have sprung up. When you enter, they give you a map of it all that tells you where you are, and shows you a route to travel in order to find the places you want to see! It's like a new city's sprung up on top of the river. It's not even just shops and eateries, either: it's got squares and monuments and sport rings and a great amphitheatre made of ice.
You'd have been amazed to see how they created the ice: it took hundreds of charm-casters, working full days for a fortnight. And stasis specialists to hold it over night until the next layer could be cast each following day. They say it's nearly four feet thick.
I wondered about the fish and the tides, but they tell me the ice mostly sits atop the water (and the level is higher than usual now) so the fish are fine down below and the tides have been stopped above London bridge. The ice goes all the way to Westminster bridge, which is the western boundary for the Faire.
That means it's enormous!
Tonight, Ned and I are going to go down for supper after work. There's a Fresher's feast in a different place each night, but tonight it's going to be right up underneath London bridge, which will be utterly nift all enchanted and decked in fairy lights.
Anywiz, let me know what the Rowles have said, so we can make our plans together. (Oh, and I want to know what they told you about Sarah's photographs. They didn't seem in a hurry to leave at all, and I thought I heard Mr Rowle say to Mr Truncheon that he found some of them inspiring, but you never know what people really think when they're still in the room where the artist might hear them.)
