At night I walk the dogs down station road Left side, I say. I pause. Inside a window, never curtained Home Sweet Home proclaim the panes is a room full of stuff, boxes still to be unpacked. A woman sits watching a small screen. Another beside her, her phone. Her companion, on the 2 seater… Continue reading Window
Science Cafe -DNA
Professor Chris Higgins, Bottomist to Humans We all came from a common ancestor: viruses, humans, oaks. Humans and cabbage share about 40-50% common DNA, while 98% of your DNA is common with a chimpanzee. 2002 Human Genome Project - last 5 years. One single mother who left Africa 70,000 years ago. Mitochondrial Eve Mary and… Continue reading Science Cafe -DNA
Michael
I didn't see the oaks then, nor the ferns, moss nor knew their names, harts tongue fern, Spanish moss I had not climbed the Rwenzori's then But I remember the green, the wetness The name Betws-y-Coed, the grey brick, slate. You rented a house, you came into my room. We found a Walter Grieve in… Continue reading Michael
Brancaster for Michael’s 85
It was Michael's idea to come to North Norfolk, and as we drove here, past memory on automatic, I see some reciprocal pattern evolving. Last year to Wales and Michael's bicycle past and now to Norfolk and my childhood past. Memories come round corners unexpectedly and I had not prepared or been prepared for this. … Continue reading Brancaster for Michael’s 85
Poetry with Dean and Michael and Carl
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
