Doncaster Miners in Cork Street 'Where's t' bus? one asked to his mate, so bought me up short, for this was not Cork Street talk I thought as I walked towards Messums ahead, enlightened by its private view 'Laurence Edwards heads'. In that dark I recognised a face as he walked passed a handbag shop.… Continue reading Poetry with Dean and Michael and Carl
Peter Hemy
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
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
Rabindranath Tagore
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not… Continue reading Rabindranath Tagore
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
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