So welcome back to art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan

and me Louise Fletcher and we haven't spoken for a couple of weeks and Louise's way

this week where are you away? Yeah I apologize for my sound quality.

I don't have a microphone until I arrive at my final destination

because it's buried in my car, but I am in Somerset near Taunton at the moment

in a tiny little village that I thought was beautiful and

bucolic and quaint until I came out for a walk with Riley this morning and

that it must be the m5 I don't know it's just like this torrential noise in the

background of the you colic team so it's very pretty and so we're going for a drive around today and have a look around and then tomorrow we set off again down to Kormel so we've only got two more hours to do tomorrow.

Oh this is your so this is your retreat time? Right a month away, yes.

Oh.

I don't mind saying that on the radio because someone's in my house.

So usually we're paranoid about saying we're going away in case we get broken into but I don't mind saying that because it's all safe there.

So it's exciting are you excited? I am actually I was terrified when I set off I had real anxiety for the first two hours of the journey just because it's a big thing to do for such a long time and I haven't been away really for a long periods of time for a long time.

But then halfway up, halfway down rather, I met up with two friends and went for a walk with their dogs and Riley and everything was okay.

So I was really happy I got over the anxiety we got here so four and a half hours driving I got out out of the car and I couldn't stand up.

My back's gone.

I know.

At that's like that time I drove for that workshop in Yorkshire and I buy the time, I think it was

even like six hours driving in it is your car automatic yes okay so this is in a geared car as well and like my left leg had like literally given up working a hip socket after about six hours. I thought,

I'm never doing that again. It's used to do this stuff when I was 25 or whatever and just

jump out the car and carry on but you forget even though you feel like you still can do all this stuff it's not as easy so stretches today lots of ibuprofit to get ready for tomorrow's two-hour stint.

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