Not quite appropriate for the date, this scene is from Saturday 25th, my compadre at work on the stage decoration. He does the part on the little pomentary at the front and I fiddle with bamboo at the back. What I was actually doing today was bending the remainder of those spindly strips of bamboo on the right. I had a go at it yesterday to calm my sense of being unprepared. That is actually all one bamboo pole all split up. I used a sheet of one inch plywood stood up against a wall with a load of coarse thread screws stuck in it at appropriate positions, then heated up various parts of the bamboo with a propane burner to get it into some graceful shapes. A bit spanish inquisition down in the dungeon, but the result wasn't too bad.