Trump to Kim (in one of his signature stream of consciousness speeches in Hunstville on Friday night) Little Rocket Man Kim to Trump 'mentally deranged dotard” Meanwhile Tamsyn dies, Richard deteriorates. Huricans wreck lives and livings. The last letter of Tamsyn stays with me all day. I write up my notes from when I last… Continue reading Outside and inside
Butley with Umi and Simon and the arm
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
Cut Loose September 2017
Michael Lasky and Dean Parkin 'Good-morn-ing-mr-park-in' One of us sing songs like we did back at school when the teacher arrives into the classroom. We’re off We’ve got a new student with us, nicknamed Fogel (some connection to Muppets in the 80’s which I’ve missed over time). He has coloured hair and works in Beech… Continue reading Cut Loose September 2017
Rupert, bread, wine and churches
DRAFT Biking from Diss this time, catching the rain only at the end, Rupert rocked up at East Lodge with wine and bread in his panniers on a Friday September afternoon, infinitely felxible to fit in with what ever was happening, with a book (Jim Crace?) to hand in case of time to find. During… Continue reading Rupert, bread, wine and churches
Midnight’s Children
One am, a film of Midnight's Children on BBC Iplayer is just finishing. Coming across it randomly i had 1 day to view it. Stayed up. Looked up Ravi on the internet and found him: http://raviagarwal.com/bio.php: 'Ravi is also the founder of the Indian environmental NGO Toxics Link which has pioneered work on waste and chemicals'. Another… Continue reading Midnight’s Children
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
Three nuns and a head girl
I was about to drink my free pint of Orange Wheat (Greenjack) after my Folk East bar shift, when I noticed a foreign number come up on the phone. I had to put the pint down when she said ‘This is Capps, Veronica Capps.’ She was staying with Tre and Gabriel the keepers of Magdalene… Continue reading Three nuns and a head girl
Blackbury and Apple
This slow unpacking involves coming across frequent surprises, jolts, back into the Bob. Today was 'Poplar Farm Blackberry and Apple, 2002' One of our periods of estrangement, a geography of a Suffolk long house Linstead, with Annabelle. I remember his pleasure in making jam, and gifting it, with all that time that he had on… Continue reading Blackbury and Apple
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Hooker & Tamsyn and Gorilla planting in Halesworth
Oh what delight to rock up on the bike, peddling fast down Norwich hill by skin of teeth to meet the 11 o’clock rendez-vous to find Tamsyn leading the Hooker trail around Halesworth, this Hooker celebration weekend. Of course, she was. She is after all, Halesworth in Bloom inspirer, a great gardener, creator, mover and… Continue reading Hooker & Tamsyn and Gorilla planting in Halesworth
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