CRAFT + DESIGN CHALLENGE

And that’s a wrap — 

Some fabulous work created by almost 400 artists and makers during July thanks to the Craft + Design Canberra Daily Creative Challenge 25. Thirty-one days of creating in some shape or form, on the theme of ‘Rewilding.’ All the participants produced really impressive and inspiring bodies of work. You can see it all on Instagram. Including stuff by me. Writers welcome so there I am – infiltrating as as one friendly voice said.

The theme fits well with my current poetry project. (Tell you later.) I wrote draft prose poetry, semi-memoir (as poetry often is) and micro poems/haiku, sometimes combining them with quick splashy paint sketches as a (desperate) way of presenting them visually (not that that’s essential). Some days I produced art & text works which I do periodically — acrylic paint on small canvases with either found text or original haikuish pieces. It depended on what time I had that day or whether the daily word prompt had me flowing or floundering. 

Mostly motivating though occasionally frustrating, like when you come up with a great response to a prompt one day, only to find it fits a future prompt even better dammit. 

So … 16 small art & text canvases, a bunch of haikuish bits, a sprinkling of prose poetry drafts. Plus my Instagram account has moved from ‘No posts yet’ to 54 posts and 341 followers (I was so lagging) including many amazing creatives — thank you all. 

Prompt: Propagation 
Size: 13 cm x 13 cm #cdccreativechallenge25

I’m very grateful to Craft + Design Canberra for this opportunity. It came at the right time. Just when I’m pushing hard at getting back into the swing of writing and thinking about those same subthemes in a Binalong to Canberra context. (Prompt words included: water, moon, abundance, rejuvenate, nest

twined, rhythm, naked, feral ...) A big shout-out to artist daughter Aroona Murphy who still keeps a close eye on the Canberra arts scene all the way from Ireland, and brought it to my attention. 

So July challenge … I guess that’s a wrap! Or is it … have already started on art & text on canvas versions of the sketchy pieces. Let’s see what the end of August brings. And PS: regional poetry workshops rolling out soon — Yass, Young, Goulburn.

Prompt: Rhythm — Take 2
Size: 13 cm x 13 cm
#cdccreativechallenge25 

Prompt: Rhythm — Take 1
#cdccreativechallenge25 

POEMS ABOUT UNBELONGING

In Bitumen Psalms you follow the Hume Highway from the inland Yass region (NSW) where Lizz Murphy lives, all the way to Wollongong on the South Coast where she used to live. Lizz often writes about place and belonging. In the long title sequence of micro and haiku-ish poems, she is all too aware of her unbelonging — always just passing through. 

In these pinch-size poems she attempts to engage more closely:

grasses breezy 

land alive with skitter and crawl 

wedge-tails circling the rising air 

There are also glimpses of her own patch in the village of Binalong, through Tai Chi, her other passion.

Raising arms (six times) 

Mt Bobbara becomes golden 

blue shadowstreak  each rock 

inscribed on the horizon 

 — from Opening the Heart

There's a photo of Mt Bobbara at dusk in another recent post — here.

So that's a bit of the blurb. There's more on the Flying Islands Pocket Poets website here: https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/?s=murphy My thanks to Dylan Jones who designed Bitumen Psalms and was a wonderful collaborator.

You can also read about the other seven new titles. Order Bitumen Psalms (RRP $12.50, pb; $6.25, e-book) from the website or better still subscribe to receive all eight plus a couple of extra collections.

COMING BACK TO IT

Coming back to it.  Finding that the keyboard tray in this gifted desk offers a perfect space just under the laptop for scribbling research in a journal. Finding the decorative letter opener waiting with its sparkling faux gemstones and the marcasite butterfly – surprisingly ergonomic — and remembering the dear poet who chose this farewell present. Also remembering that when I open letters (invoices in!) I forget that I have a letter opener. I love letter openers. Sitting in the room at the front of the house reclaiming its ‘writing room’ status and recalling the view of the tracks just as the CountryLink train flashes passed. Thinking of the passengers on their way to Melbourne and reminding myself I always get directions wrong. So. Edit: Sydney. Then. Catching the sunset. And Venus I think. Next. Try catching poems.

BRUSH WITH POETRY TODAY!

 C'mon — it's warm in the car and warm in the venue ... there's wine ... there's coffee ...

Another open mike and it's on today. A Brush with Poetry this afternoon 1.30 for 2.00 pm (or arrive when you can). It's warm as toast and so is the welcome and Café hosting. Bring a poem (or a song) or just come to listen. It's serious, it's fun, it's moving. Something for everyone. Bring a friend. New and experienced very welcome to share the open mike. Binalong poets, Yass poets, Canberra poets and other neighbouring regions. It's in The Hive at the back of Café on Queen, Queen Street, Binalong. Enquiries to Brush Coordinator Robyn Sykes robynsykespoet[at]gmail[dot]com Emcees are Robyn with Greg Piko.

Above: Robyn introducing the popular Janne Graham from Canberra. Below: 1. art & text with Kate O'Connor (Binalong), 2. Sandra Renew winner of the ACT Writers Notable Awards for Poetry 2021 for her collection It’s the sugar, Sugar (Recent Work Press), 3. Jenny McCallister and John Ward — haiku, song and music.

GIDDY-UP FOR POETRY IN BINALONG

 

Gallop in to A Brush with Poetry this afternoon 1.30 for 2.00 pm (or arrive when you can). Bring a poem (or a song) or just come to listen. It's serious, it's fun, it's moving, it's a bit silly, it's bush, it's contemporary, it's story, it's bloody good poetry. Something for everyone. Bring a friend. New and experienced very welcome ... poets/performers that is as for the friends that's up to you. It's in The Hive at the back of Café on Queen, Queen Street. (This is a photo of the Binalong Mechanics Institute this morning — not to confuse you — just to show you a typical Binalong day. There's a time when that might've been me! Seriously.)

I'll tell you about the amazing Jacqui Malins installation Wrack and Salvage later. Today is the last day. Take a trot (groan) over the Belconnen Arts Centre if you can't get to Binalong. Cheers.

WEEKEND ART & WORD FEST - NOW

Heading into Canberra to Belconnen Arts Centre today to see Wrack and Salvage by Jacqui Malins. I’ll be joining friends to visit this installation (closing tomorrow), the associated drop-in (10.00 am –– 3.00 pm) postcard workshop (you know we have an ongoing fascination for postcards) and Jaqui’s artist talk at 3 pm. I just have to remember to vote before I leave NSW for the day! 

Tomorrow is Binalong’s well-known Brush with Poetry coordinated by Robyn Sykes at The Hive behind Café on Queen starting at 2 pm. It’s a shared mike event with all styles of poetry and sometimes music and song. All welcome. It’s a mix of new and experienced poets and other lovers of poetry. We recommend arriving about 1.30 to get your coffee, cake and wine orders in or why not have lunch. You know you love a country drive and the village is so beautiful.

It's a veritable weekend art & word fest.

BRUSH UP YOUR POETRY

Brush up your poems everyone. A Brush with Poetry's shared mic is on this Sunday in Binalong, That Poetry Thing that is on Every Monday Night is on this Monday in Canberra - includes an open mic most times, Flying Islands launches its 2023 list in Glebe on February 4. 

More details:

A Brush with Poetry - Café on Queen, Queen Street, Binalong NSW - Sunday January 29 at 1.30 for 2.00 pm. Contact Coordinator Robyn Sykes at robynsykespoet [at] gmail [dot com All styles of poetry welcome and also song and music.

That Poetry Thing ... - Smith's Alternative, 76 Alinga Street, Canberra at 7.00 pm. Watch their Facebook page for features and open mics.

Flying Islands Poetry Community Inc - launch of new poetry titles by Richard James Allen, Angie Contini, Jill McKeowen, D. G. Lloyd, Vaughan Rapatahana, Yannis Rentzos, Kevin Smith, Sophia Wilson, at The Shop Gallery, 112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW at 5. 00 pm. Also see Estuary there, an exhibition of paintings by Brian Purcell. 

    Followed by a reading at The Shop on Sunday at 3.00 pm: Richard James Allen, Angie Contini, Anna Couani, Christopher (Kit) Kelen, Brian Purcell, Sarah St Vincent Welch.

Hope to see you Sunday for a start.

SIGNATURE POETRY

The new year is up and running with Poetry at Manning Clark House in Canberra tonight (Thursday, January 19 at 7 pm) and A Brush with Poetry in Binalong Sunday week. 

Manning Clark House (MCH)

Great round-up this evening at MCH with almost thirty poets reading one of their ‘signature’ poems. They’re all so fabulous I can’t pick a sampling, so here’s the whole list: Michelle Brock, Rohan Beuttel, Penelope Cottier, Judith Crispin, Christopher Dorman, Suzanne Edgar, Paul Hetherington, Kathy Kituai, Jacqui Malins, Kerrie Nelson, Penelope Layland, Lizz Murphy, Gemma Nethercote Way, Mark O'Connor, Rosa O'Kane, Moya Pacey, Geoff Page, Sandra Renew, Sarah Rice, Barbie Robinson, Shane Strange, Jen Webb, Sarah St Vincent Welch, Luke Whitington, Tony Williams, Kimberly Williams. Hosted by Hazel Hall and Kimberly Williams — a dynamic duo. See you at Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circuit, Forrest. 

A Brush with Poetry

Then it’s a country drive for A Brush with Poetry on Sunday, January 29 at 1.30 for 2 pm. It’s a shared mike afternoon with all styles of poetry and performance — from ballad to sonnet to free range; from bush narratives to contemporary topics — read or recite, sing or make music. A Binalong Arts Group (BAG) signature event. BAG President and Brush Coordinator, Robyn Sykes is available by text on 0401 289 178 for any queries or bookings. Free but donations welcome. Join us at Café on Queen, Queen Street, Binalong — light meals, snacks, cake, coffee, wine etc available. Supported by Southern Tablelands Arts (STA).

Please note: no Zoom available on this occasion.

PS Happy New Year everyone.

PIECE OF PLACE/FINDING OUR WAY HOME

Lizz Murphy/Kate O'Connor opening Friday 6 pm

'Here we are/where are we?' an old regular would frequently say at the local pub, on his visits to Binalong. I'm thinking it kinda sums up what Kate O'Connor and I are exploring in our linked exhibitions Finding our Way Home (Kate) and Piece of Place. They open together on Friday, November 4 at 6 pm — no formalities — just wine, nibbles, pizza pieces in The Hive at the rear of Café on Queen, Queen Street, Binalong. We have each painted over thirty works most of which are just 10 x 10 cm or 15 x 15 cm. It's a buy-and-take-away scenario — and we hope you do!

Working in acrylic and paint-pen on tiny canvases, Kate has created paintings, maps and verse — landscape, abstracted imagery, coded poems, landmarks and memories — helping her map 'the way home.' I track, I trace the outline of a past I cannot place/I make histories in the clouds/The branch, that one bird song at three — Finding our Way Home is supported by the Yass Valley Arts Trail.

I have worked in acrylic paint with found text on canvas, capturing vintage objects (and memories) from over the years and also created a sequence of Tree Haiga — close-ups of bark and leaves with haiku poems representing my place. roots run deep/knot old and new/rephrasing/the song of you — Piece of Place is supported by a Southern Tablelands Arts Micro Grant (a Covid initiative).

The exhibitions continue over the weekend from 10 am to 4 pm as part of the Yass Valley Arts Trail which is responsible for an explosion of art across the region November 5-6. Visit their Facebook page to find out more. 

More Yass Valley Arts Trail events in Binalong:

Same venue — still a space or two in Poetree my tree-themed workshop, Sunday at 10 am — contact me on lizzmurphy7[at]gmail[dot]com And in the afternoon all are welcome at Binalong Arts Group's pop-up Brush with Poetry (coordinator Robyn Sykes) featuring Sarah St Vincent Welch. Includes tree themes — join in the open mike with a tree poem (or any). Sunday 2-4 pm. Visit nearby exhibitions/open studios at the Old Bakery Gallery and Peter Minson Art Glass.

A BRUSH WITH TREES AND OTHER POEMS

Special guest Sarah St Vincent Welch
Photo by Dylan Jones

It’s a vibrant weekend across the Yass Valley thanks to the Yass Valley Arts Trail, driven by Cayla Pothan of Yass. A highlight of Binalong’s weekend of Arts Trail activities is a tree-themed pop-up Brush with Poetry organized by Binalong Arts Group (BAG) on Sunday November 6 at 2 pm in The Hive, Café on Queen, 13/15 Queen Street, Binalong. 

Our featured poet is well-known Sarah St Vincent Welch who is instigator of the Kindred Trees website project, featuring trees loved by Canberra Region poets in the form of photographs and original poems. Sarah will talk a little about this project, read a tree poem or two and share other poems including from her two poetry titles. See Sarah’s bio below. 

This special Brush with Poetry will include its usual shared mike where everyone is welcome to share a poem — or more — depending on how time goes. On this occasion we encourage you to read or recite a tree-themed poem (but not essential — we’re open). Music and song also welcome. Or just come along and listen.

Sarah St Vincent Welch is a Canberra based writer and image maker who is known for chalking her poetry on footpaths at arts festivals. Her poetry can be read in ‘chalk borders’ (Flying Islands Books) and ‘Open’ (Rochford Press) and in anthologies and magazines. She has also published short stories. She is the founder of Kindred Trees, a project that asks Canberra poets to respond to a local tree, and which encourages a love of trees through poetry (kindredtrees.com.au). St Vincent Welch has worked in film preservation, (specialising in early film), and has facilitated creative writing in the community. 

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Please note that Café on Queen is not open on this occasion due to private functions but there will be a tea urn and nibbles (BYO if you like) and coffee is available nearby. Other Binalong events include the duo exhibitions A Piece of Place and Finding our Way Home by Lizz Murphy and Kate O’Connor and exhibitions at the Old Bakery Gallery and Peter Minson Art Glass, open all weekend, plus the Poetree poetry workshop 10.00-12.30 Sunday (bookings essential). The Binalong Public School fair is also on Sunday until 1.00 pm. 

For more information on the Yass Valley Arts Trail please visit their Facebook page, plus Cayla’s page for related activities at her Tootsie Gallery Café.

ANCIENTS

 

One of two ancient trees left on our patch. I think it's a Eucalyptus melliodora (yellow box) but would have to double check (I used to know). Really this is me trying to resolve some Blog loading problems. I would like to write a poem for these survivors though. Just read that the flowers come in groups of seven. Fancy that.

Oh by the way there was a review of The Wear of My Face (Spinifex Press) in The Canberra Times recently. Great thanks to Canberra poet Penelope Layland: There is a sense here of a poetic intelligence looking sidelong, as one looks to the night sky to see objects of distant beauty - even when the subject of the poet's focus is something concretely calamitous. You can read the whole review online here.

POETS & FROGLETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lockdown getting to you? Go out and listen to the frogs!

I’m back to recording frogs with the FrogID app, wandering down to our small dam to get clearer calls and maybe even sight a froglet or two. No sightings so far but it’s a nice activity on a beautiful day like today. Then poking around Rattle I find the poem Go out and Listen to the Frogs (#71 Spring 2021). Such a touching poem even if you don’t love frogs. It’s by J R Solonche.

 

Oh yes — if you're interested — there have been choruses from the Common Eastern Froglet, Eastern Sign-bearing Froglet and Spotted Marsh Frog with the occasional bop or dunk this afternoon from an Eastern Banjo :)

POETRY PERSISTS IN BINALONG

 

 

A superb Brush with Poetry on Zoom last Sunday with nature poems, sonnets, prose poetry, original and traditional bush poetry performances, deep poems and humorous poems. Our usual mix. There were lively connections from poet to poet throughout the afternoon that couldn’t have been planned better.

 

Fifteen participants Zoomed from Binalong, Yass, Gunning, Wallendbeen, East Sydney’s lockdown and Canberra. Above are just some of the poets/audience (from left): top row: Chris Dorman, moi, Lindsay Thompson and canine friend; middle row: Mike Lavis, Robyn Sykes (host), Hazel Hall; bottom row: Harry Melkonian, Janne Graham, Jennifer Rivers and Colin Campbell. The screen shot is posted with permission (sorry I couldn’t crop the Chat column for some reason … nothing personal there so I don't think anyone will mind ).

 

There was time to reminisce on Lindsay’s first Brush and first public performance. From the publicity shot Lindsay thought he would be reciting his work to about eight people and when he got there, found an audience of almost fifty! He still fronted the mic and of course everyone loved him. Meanwhile Harry is surviving lockdown. New to Brush he intended to only listen in but lucky for us he shared two very thoughtful poems at the end of the afternoon. Janne read beautiful poems — one rich with birdlife and the other about elephants. In the spirit of the afternoon Janne acknowledged Hazel and also Yass poet Jane Baker (in her absence) for inspiration. Hazel writes sonnets, haiku and tanka and is the indefatigable coordinator of the Manning Clark House monthly poetry readings.

 

Big thanks again to Robyn, host and MC, and the driving force keeping A Brush with Poetry alive. She kept us Zooming all through the worst of 2020, moved it to Room and Zoom in 2021, Room only in May and back to Zoom this month as a precaution. Thank you also to Southern Tablelands Arts(STA) who support this event and the Zooming, performer Peter Rose who assists when its Room and Zoom and Café on Queen who provide the Room (an atmospheric studio space) when it is Covid safe enough. A Brush with Poetry is a Binalong Arts Group open mic event (Robyn is the President).

Writers tip: Zoom or Room, try out your work and practise reading at open mic opportunities.

BRUSH WITH POETRY ZOOMS July 25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Brush with Poetry will Zoom this Sunday (1.30 for 2 pm). You can join us from anywhere you are — so why don’t you? We’d love to see you on screen and to hear your poems. Any style of poetry is welcome along with music and song. (Don’t forget if you’re reading or performing someone else’s poetry you should have permission.)

 

Many thanks to Coordinator Robyn Sykes for ensuring the continuation of this varied and entertaining Binalong Arts Group program, in spite of current NSW restrictions. Also thank you to Southern Tablelands Arts for Zooming support.

 

A Brush with Poetry will be back at Binalong’s Café on Queen as soon as it is safe and permissible to have an audience there again. Meanwhile they are open on Sundays for socially distanced coffee, wine, meals and snacks. This week I’ll be Zooming so it’s BYO wine and cheese for me 

 

And here is the link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88611639192?mc_cid=43c5fc0e90&mc_eid=%5bUNIQID%5d#success

 

 

FOXES & FUNGI

 

Here we are in the new financial year! Just thought I’d say that. Yesterday a fox (presumably) ran off with my two pet chooks. It wasn’t even night or dusk or daybreak. Somewhere between 8.30 am and 10 am when I let them out just for a while before the Canberra commute. I’m not so fond of foxes at the moment.

 

Here are some foxy coloured fungi. Might be Orange Peel Fungus. Or maybe not. Who’d have thought there were so many details to consider. I’ll inspect more closely tomorrow. And also — as Billy Collins would say (on his poetry broadcasts) — google it up.

 

 

 

 

A BRUSH WITH NEW POETRY

A gorgeous Brush with Poetry in Binalong last Sunday, delightfully emceed by Greg Piko (regular co-MC) and Alex Webb standing in for Robyn Sykes (coordinator and regular co-emcee). Was so pleased to be present for a mini second launch of The Moorings a joint collection by Janne Grahame, Amelia Fielding, Julia Irwin, Neva Kastelic. Also picked up Greg's latest collection Breaking my Journey.

A Brush with Poetry is a Binalong Arts Group (BAG) event. Robyn will be back for the next one on the last Sunday of July which is ... the 25th. It's back in the room at Cafe on Queen at 2 pm. Many thanks to Robyn for maintaining and sustaining the event through Zoom last year and more.

I STILL DREAM OF HORSES

 

 

 

 

I Still Dream of Horses: A girl, her horse and the stories of their lives (RRP $18.95. hb. 200pp. 2020) by Binalong’s Leanne Heffernan is a memoir you will gallop through.

 

Consuela, an 18 year-old appaloosa mare, takes us from the day she was purchased for fourteen year-old Leanne through all the twists and turns of her long life. Her memories include the joys of her young owner and her horse loving friends, horsie friendships and the bitie politics of public agistment, and new animal friends including a moppity clydie and a crazy Billygoat. There is a myriad of challenges and changes for both Consuela and Leanne as time goes on but their love for each other never sways. Consuela spends a lot of her time in Canberra allotments but eventually heads for regional fields and finally Binalong itself.

 

Saw a notice for this book on the Binalong Post Office notice board just recently. I wouldn’t have paid much attention to it as our horse days are long behind us — yes we did do the pony club thing with the kids and had a couple of beautiful Clydesdales at one time. Except that … another Binalong author? Stage left to Bill Kosseris’ wee shop! ‘Thought I should buy this book Bill as it’s a Binalong author.’ ‘Oh yes,’ he says, and in the way of small towns, ‘she lives up there in so and so’s house …’ Houses are not placed by their addresses but by their histories. My new neighbour! All the more reason to check this book out.

 

I’m not sure what the target market is. I’m thinking it’s a book for teens — if they can wrestle it off their mums first  But then again it was highly recommended by a younger discerning reader in Bill’s shop at the time. Thank you Ella — you were right — I Still Dream of Horses is a REALLY good book. Keep the tissues handy but be prepared for a good chuckle too. An un-put-downable memoir with a difference.

 

If you are not near Binalong in the Yass Valley, NSW, you can also order from the author (add $6.95 p&p) via https://www.istilldreamofhorses.com/buy-now Amazon has paperback and kindle versions and by the way says it is for ten year-olds to adults. Visit: https://www.amazon.com/Still-Dream-Horses-Leanne-Heffernan-ebook/dp/B08L8VV6F8

 

If you are in the area why not make Binalong your next country delight. 

 

PS Apologies Leanne for my sloppy photo

A BRUSH WITH POETRY ZOOM

[Poetry in the air]

Don't Be Live Poetry Deprived 5: Sunday May 31 at 2.00 pm. Even tiny Binalong is joining the international poetry zoom craze thanks to Coordinator Robyn Sykes, with the support of Southern Tablelands Arts. A Brush with Poetry is an eclectic mix of poetry styles, readings and recitals from free verse to tanka to traditional Australian narratives. Music and song also welcome and sometimes that happens. Usually at Café on Queen (currently takeaway only) on the last Sunday of odd months Brush is taking to the air. See you there (and back at the Queen post-pandemic).

Go to the Binalong Arts Group Inc Facebook page on Saturday for the Zoom link.

(Zoom is quite easy. Download the app on to your computer or other device from zoom.us At the scheduled time just click on the link supplied which will take you to the Brush 'meeting.' You'll see a message telling you the host will let you in asap. Then suddenly — voila!)

MINIMUM 1.5 METRES OR 1 DIRT ROAD

[Minimum 1.5m or 1 dirt road]

Social-distance walking in Binalong recently — lucky to live in such a picturesque area where it also isn’t hard to avoid people. A combination of country space and everyone doing their best to keep one another safe. 

In the village centre the butcher’s open as normal and we can still get newspapers and staples from the wee shop but the Post Office currently closes at 1 pm and the pub is only open (takeaways) lunch time and tea time. The Old Produce Store in total lockdown has reeled in its gay buntings and model sheep, while the old General Store, between jobs so to speak, solemnly awaits a new future. We can still have takeaway food from said Hotel Binalong Wed-Sat with the new luxury of home delivery Saturday dinner times, takeaways from Café on Queen on weekends and The Binalong Community Club on Sunday evenings (also alcohol). The Royal Tara Motel has introduced takeaway Tuesday Chinese and Tuesday Curries. We are tiny but we are creative. There is the added bonus of saying a socially distanced hi if you arrive at a similar time to other locals treating themselves — that’s nearly as exciting as distance waving to one another in the bigger town supermarket.

Our small village is far from a bustling metropolis at any time but now it can be coronavirus eerily quiet. Driving through, say on a mid-week afternoon, reminds me of country towns in rural decline and how this is what Binalong could look like permanently if it didn’t have its active community. We worry about businesses (whether shops, farms or freight) surviving the pandemic, but Binalong will do everything possible to flourish. 

In another life I worked in regional arts development and would hear a lot about rural town decline. The most common refrain from the communities was: ‘How can we get our young people to stay?’ Let them go out into the world I say — think about how to bring them back. In Binalong we have fresh air, clear skies, birds, space, animals, sticks to collect in the paddock, family fun, community activities, art/artists — lifestyle. Young people are returning to start their families and we have the delight of that generation plus babies and toddlers everywhere. 

And even the COVID-19 cloud has a silver lining — it's called Zoom — I have never 'been to' so many poetry events in such a short space of time! Watch for news on a Brush with Poetry thanks to Coordinator Robyn Sykes. Thanks also Robyn for the photo and the walk.