A word from Alice - studio stories from Alice Draws the Line

I enjoy the fact that the forecast is undemonstrative. 

This in itself makes me smile and it’s why I called this body of work ‘Moderate or Good’- you don’t get wildly enthusiastic fanfare titles in the Shipping Forecast, just a calm, nod of the head type of equivalent.

I live in a landlocked county, I don’t sail or spend time at sea… but I really enjoy listening to The Shipping Forecast on Radio 4. 

During the pandemic I remember listening and thinking- this sounds like a forecast for this month/ day / period of time- if I left out the wind directions and some of the weather.

I started playing about with the idea of how the words could be used independently of the sea. The result was this tea towel design.