Friday, 18 March 2016

Hearing the blues

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Gradually become aware of blues music, heavy twangy electric guitar and black male voice drifting up from the street. Remember the last time...
Friday, 29 January 2016

Return to Thatcher's Britain

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My overwhelming memories of the endless Thatcher years were of striking teachers, striking miners, war mongering in far off places and abjec...
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Locked

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Unusually a gridlock at the end of my street - cars from both side roads bullying their way into traffic on opposite sides of the road, line...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016

Lumiere London 2016

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Thursday, 14 January 2016

Trafalgar Square

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Coldest night of the year. "Meet me in Trafalgar Square at 6.30. Dress warmly." He panics as the phone loses power. "Go somew...
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Monday, 11 January 2016

David Bowie RIP

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Absolutely shocked and strangely devastated by this news. It's making my stomach upset... Maybe we never expected such a weird oddity to...
Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Belated Happy New Year

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Been back at work for two manic days - full of enrolling students and left over building maintenance from last term.  But in the most welcom...
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Eyebrows

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As a fan of the eyebrow (I have been known to fall for a person on the strength of their eyebrows alone) I am having an anti-reaction to the...
Friday, 11 December 2015

Ann Veronica Janssens - States of Mind

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  So into a room filled with carbon dioxide vapour, so thick you couldn't see past about 30cms from your face. Totally lost instantl...
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Thursday, 10 December 2015

Frances Ross Duncan

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29 July 1943 to 10 December 1995 20 years ago today. 
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Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Over- emotional

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Having an attack of over-emotionality that I can't exactly explain. Two huge tears crept out when I was reading about a couple who had t...
Monday, 23 November 2015

Phoenix Pottery

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From the ashes of our ceramics department closed despite protest the Phoenix Pottery arises. Smaller. More compact. Delightfully non-govern...
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Monday, 16 November 2015

Certification

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"You're everywhere", he said. "I need you to certify my existence", she said over my head to the man smiling broadl...
Saturday, 7 November 2015

Beast

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Darkened space, white body stood with blacked out eyes and blacked out genitals, breathing, music thumping blood. Muscle tight against ribs,...
Thursday, 5 November 2015

Fascinated

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I'm fascinated by this grown man colouring in his "Calming art therapy colouring book" on the overground this evening. I might...
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Monday, 2 November 2015

Happy Halloween

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So we had a party to attend on Halloween night and decided we should dress. After the Panther's niece's 5th birthday party we couldn...
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Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Two things

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Big fad currently seeping into London - the mini-Segway hover board. First time I saw them two men were on their way out in Shorditch (one a...
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Thursday, 22 October 2015

Sleepers

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The halls are full of commuters slowed by the few who can't tear themselves from the news popping into their tiny screens long enough to...
Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Oddities of Brixton

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A man and a kid carry a stack of chairs across the street accompanied by the wife who has two chairs and is walking in bare feet. It's r...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

When is a skirt not a skirt?

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Taking the concept of "skirt" to its extremes - she walked through the commuting crowd standing guard at Liverpool street station ...
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