The season for change and growth – Jen’s blog

5 April 2012

I love this time of year, in fact I think it’s my favourite time of year when winter opens into spring.  The Chinese believe that wood is the symbol of this time of year. In ancient Chinese writings, wood is represented as a tree meaning growth and development.  The roots gain strength in the quiet of hibernating winter, recharging for a surging splurge in spring! I love this analogy as it embodies everything I love about this time of year, life starts to breathe, bulbs start to tentatively peak through and everything starts to feel more vibrant (heightened by the lovely weather we’re having at the moment of course). 

Life at The Watermill is quite symbolic of this too as we’ve just gone through (my first) set change.  Down with Lettice and Lovage and up with Writers Block. The Stage Management team are amazing.  The set is deconstructed and reconstructed within a matter of a day or two and the theatre looks so humbling and accommodating as the team work with great care to take one set down and develop another (the challenge of working with a Grade 2 listed building).  I also note with great hilarity that my barbeque is having its’ debut appearance as a prop on the set for Writers Block.  Brilliant.  How can my bbq make a debut ahead of me (my old team will be disappointed)!!  I’m so relieved I bought a new one last year, I’m not sure the rust bucket would have sufficed!!

My research groups kicked off this week finding out what kind of propositions customers would be interested in and what they love about The Watermill… read more here  http://worldofdifference.vodafone.co.uk/blogs/jennifer-potter/