We'd met Tobias Young at the Waveney Arts Trail at Ravingham - via his Standing Man. Uni, with her efficiency, had found contact and so we were to visit him in Butley Mills, this fine September day of blue skies and red berries. Passing as usual the lives I may have lived had I bought… Continue reading Butley with Umi and Simon and the arm
Category: Bob
Comings and Goings
The Air bnb guests - Louis and his brother and girlfriend - left me two gifts. The first tangible, was a book Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia by Patrick Cockburn, which had come knocking on my door before but I had not taken it up. We’d exchanged sadly similar stories of dreadful experiences in mental health… Continue reading Comings and Goings
Bob-end
The last letter to the brothers is written. A line is drawn. Friends have been useful. Sara is right, they will find a justification for their actions. Why couldn't they have been honest and kind? Umi is right, it does not all rest with the brothers - Bob could have been more explicit and I did… Continue reading Bob-end
Bryan – International Women’s day
Dear Rachel, Tomorrow is a day of resistance to the Trump juggernaut, as many millions will be out of work in protest of his presidency. It will also be a day of remembrance, of acknowledgement that women need more respect, more physical and economic security, than ever before. It will be a day to remember how important… Continue reading Bryan – International Women’s day
Bobji 12 weeks
Sometimes, these cold March days when the wind comes from the north east, and rain arrives, some afternoons I find myself laid out on my sofa with two dogs along side me, my arm over the faithful Kali (who has never been so affectionate), and at my feet or at a safe distance from the alpha… Continue reading Bobji 12 weeks
Bobji
I collected the bundle of Bobji in a snow storm - an English one where nothing really settled, but it caused a mild flurry. Her first ever snow, her first journey in a motor car. Fixed by nervousness, she lay down in the cage. Kali, totally unaware of this revolution that was about to take… Continue reading Bobji
Bob at the Cut Feb 2017
Bob at the Cut
Scaffold of the day in place - Aafke who showed me Tony’s fathers brochure, inspired and introduced me to the wonderful, peaceful, can do Mark, who professionally designed both the flyer then the last minute fold out brochure. Even a brief correspondence with Caroline who sent fabulous photographs of young Bob and oh how I… Continue reading Bob at the Cut
Bob Edwards – his films, my notes
Bob Edwards 1. BBC Television Director While working for the BBC (1967 - 1972), Bob directed documentary films, mostly arts programmes, including 3 shown here: Over 20 films in 5 years, mostly arts programmes including films about sculptor Barbara Hepworth, satirist Roland Topor and cartoonist Ronald Searle in Paris, Composer Benjamin Britten and gypsies at… Continue reading Bob Edwards – his films, my notes
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