Finally Tori and I sat down and watched TV. After all the build up and ritual of a death, we put our metaphoric feet up, and caught up on the outside world news, Channel 4 naturally. They reported on a campaign to preserve a remarkable railway tunnel under a hill (to convert to a cycle… Continue reading Peter Hemy
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London 1860 wine
Italian fortified wine, dated 1860. Pre unification, post Chartists, someone poured this liquid into this bottle and corked it. 180 years later, in a kitchen of Shepherds Bush Road, Rupert pulls the cork and we drink. Complex sherry smooth but still wine. Painting are on the walls (mine of cows I notice). Some residue of… Continue reading London 1860 wine
Flip side, Jane Ivemy talking with Julia Blackburn
Birds Red list, fragile holding of the extinct or nearly extinct Man of stone Bill's film. Man of stone in the landscape, process of lost wax, latex, plaster. Archeology anthropology.
Blue PVC chairs
Blue stretched PVC chairs Machine made Made to fit the human form A form in some way failing so waiting to pass through waiting here to hear what next. (James Paget Hospital November 2019
Heligoland 59
After the first email from Doug Aylwood, attaching a complete service biography of Richard Kellett, and the first extraordinary ceremony in Eye Cathedral, exactly this time last year, finally we are gathered. This was the creative initiative of Jack Waterfall, who's Cambridge News_11-05-2019_Jack Waterfall 3(1) Uncle died 1940 in a Wellington Bomber over Wilhelmshaven. “John… Continue reading Heligoland 59
Heligoland39 Photographs
Mildenhall with Jack, Richard, Bernie, and Tim – prequel to Heligoland
'It was in the email', said and exasperated Richard! as Jack Tim Bernie and I checked in to Mildenhall entrance, photographs taken, ID processed. Jordie (UK MOD) was our man on site and very clear. Richard padded out and did interpretation. The 1930 military barracks buildings were classic functional brick, no frills. At first they… Continue reading Mildenhall with Jack, Richard, Bernie, and Tim – prequel to Heligoland
Coup 53 at Aldeburgh, with Ralph Fiennes
Michael and I arrived just in time to sample a few delicious canapes and down a glass of red, as well as secure a seat in the 3rd row (next to a girl at the end who left and returned 3 times during the film breaking glasses on the way - all very odd). Ralph… Continue reading Coup 53 at Aldeburgh, with Ralph Fiennes
UK Election of Boris
After the exit pole and the manifestation of Conservatives in the Blyth Valley we we are all trying to make sense of it all. Not only out of our beloved Europe - our fellow tribes people, our major trading partner, our scientific research co-respondent, but we have 5 and perhaps even 10 years of this… Continue reading UK Election of Boris
A gift of Paris from Michael
The gift began with drinks at Peter Pennington's, Michael's school friend recently found to be living near by in Woodbridge. A gentle man, with an eye for detail and elephant memory of those past years in Birkenhead grammar school. The Mayor arrived in full regalia, with politics on our minds (3 days to the December… Continue reading A gift of Paris from Michael
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