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
Capernaum – Film
It starts with a child taking his parents to court for bringing him into this world. The rest of the film is about how he got to this point. Extraordinary drone airial shots of tyre wheels pepper tin tarps of a jughi. It held our attention for the 2 hours. The terrible harshness of life.… Continue reading Capernaum – Film
Richard Maybey at the Cut
I watched Richard Maybey watching us, as we came in. He has a stick. No socks. He fiddles with the foreign body around his head, a wireless microphone, otherwise he sits comfortably with his arms crossed across his rounded body, his eyes, alive looking out watching us. His interviewer, Patrick Barkham, (environmental correspondent for the… Continue reading Richard Maybey at the Cut
Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2019
Wentworth (conversation 'Was it a breakdown or did you go to pieces?overheard). as I read Tom Corbet's Liverpool book, freshly published, years in the making. Beside me, Michael reads the Guardian, of the new Ken Loach film Sorry We missed you. We both recalled I Daniel Blake, seen in our different lives at a different… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2019
Air Bnb – Spiders
I hope you don't mind spiders, I say to those who come to rent my homeAnd if their eyes flicker I addThey don't come down oftenPlenty to eat up there. Looking up a the magnificent multistoryThread of silk between my ceiling joists"She has eaten today', I assure one"You'll be safe for 48 hours' I addbecoming… Continue reading Air Bnb – Spiders
Shake Festival – The Cut
The 2nd item on the festival Saturday 25th October, is James Holloway - Julius Caesar Workshop 1. James is not here, (It feels like that poem, XX will not read the Times Obituary today, he's dead), but as we all gather in his name for a seed planted by him before he left, now fruiting,… Continue reading Shake Festival – The Cut
Joan Sutherland
Christopher and Joan Sutherland came to the Park in 1984. In June they purchased Unit 31 from Mr Elton, who was the treasurer of the Company, then known as BlueBird Super Guardian. They paid £8,000. They were interviewed by Mr PF Broom and JH Cancellor. These are the bare bones on the exchange contract in… Continue reading Joan Sutherland
Marching for the Peoples vote and Rene
Three years later, with 10 days to the Boris Brexit Deadline, we march. We march like Michael did this summer, to show our support to remain in Europe, or at least to have another and more informed vote: To remain: to look out (not in), to keep the peace, to join an influential trading block,… Continue reading Marching for the Peoples vote and Rene
An instinct for Kindness / Chris Larner
While Chris Larner was at Magnolia House with Michael during the Ink Festival, he spoke about this play he'd written, then, over a whisky, talked about the story he was a part of. Accompanying his ex wife Allyson to Dignitas in Switzerland. First performed in 2011 at the Edinburgh Festival, this brilliant, bittersweet one-man show… Continue reading An instinct for Kindness / Chris Larner
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