Tony Hart's latest attempt at World domination. This is what a plague of Morph's looks like. And it's art.
After some months away, I had been invited back to appear on Emma Britton's show on BBC Somerset, being broadcast this particular morning "live" from the BBC bus at Barrington Court. As it is the middle of flaming June, I naturally woke up to the sound of heavy rain smashing against my bedroom window and a strong wind howling round the eaves. Looking out across the streets and rooftops of Crewkerne it was a vista of wet misery and countless umbrellas. Ah, it must be nearly Wimbledon fortnight.
I drove down to Barrington Court and arrived just after 8.30am. The bus was parked up behind the court house and I was soon inside chatting to Emma and her team. It was nice to be back with them again. I was on the show with a lovely lady who worked as a fundraiser for Marie Curie Cancer Fund called Amy Llewellyn from Yeovil. Our first burning topic of the day was do you throw your rubbish out the car window, or take it home with you. Just like Question Time... Our second topic was as it is nearly Father's Day how do you feel about your father. Well obviously my Dad is an absolute hero of mine, so I bigged him up tremendously - I hope he appreciates just how famous he is in Somerset now. I also managed to get in a plug for my lovely friends The Tudor Roses, which they were very grateful for later. My pleasure ladies!
When the broadcast had finished I bumped into Barrington potter Paul Jessop who very kindly invited me to his birthday party this evening (Saturday) and was then taken into the Court house to have a sneaky peak at the art installation you see in the picture above - Antony Gormley's "Field for the British Isles" that at first glance appears to be a massive convention of Morph characters from "Take Hart". But on closer inspection it really works on so many levels - tens of thousands of these figures in three different rooms in Barrington Court, each with a beady pair of blank eyes staring at you, and each one subtly different from the one next to it. They also gently change colour as well, so you get swathes of terracotta, then a deeper rustier colour cuts through, then slightly greyer etc. And in the large kitchen, the sun cut through briefly and dazzled on the little army of figures. Well worth a visit - particularly if you like Morph and being stared at.
The rain and horrible weather continues - will summer never come? "And just when I thought that my vista was golden in hue - 1,000 umbrellas opened to spoil the view..."
A busy week next week - Newberries School in Radlett, Herts on Monday, then back to West Pennard near Glastonbury on Wednesday and Paulton Junior near Bristol on Thursday.
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