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knows she is dying as colour drains from her sty - rusted bolts bleed ruby, grass and feed shudder like memory - as if this present moment has already evaporated. Breaths long, precious. Now a spasm a contortion between shoulder blades a squeal as a nub something sharp something new forces its way out piercing tough bristles as piglets run to fences as hollow bone spins out from air - she lifts away from mud and straw, the first time in days. Her cries now ecstatic. Clouds twitch with static…
June was too hot. In the UK, the heat record was broken on three subsequent days, each hotter than the previous one. Extreme heat is now something we have to live with, and we are woefully unprepared in this country. Our house was built in 1850 ish and is designed for damp, rainy days, not hot summers. Still, we will find ways of adapting. As I write, another heatwave is brewing for the start of July. Life I went to Leeds to see friends and Los Campesinos. The gig was great, but it was also…
April was a strange month. Continual climate shock means it was boiling hot for a couple of weeks instead of the usual April showers. We need to redraw our upstanding of the seasons as things continue to change. Then the strangeness continued in May. Continual freezing weather and storms followed by the hottest day on record. This is only going to get worse over the coming years. The predicted chaos is only just starting. Life Settling into the new job. Feeling more confident with it now. Also…
Stacey Solomon gestures in a theatrical manner at a pile of notebooks. 'How many do you think you have?' she laughs. I know this is a trap but fall for it anyway. '25?' '48!' She's silent to allow the audience at home to explode in laughter. 'Why do you need so many?' she asks. 'I wanted to be a poet.' This elicits an eyebrow raise. 'Why?' 'I don't know, to connect with people and try and seek some kind of truth,' I mumble. 'And how many people have you connected with over this abstract…
With March being so busy, I missed the anniversary of this website and blog. On 3rd March 2016, I wrote my first blog post. You can find it here.[1]. So that means I've had this website for ten years. When I started this blog, Brexit hadn't happened yet. Trump hadn't happened yet. I was living in Surrey. Since that time, I've moved to Bristol, then moved to Gloucestershire. I was with my girlfriend ten years ago and now we have been married for almost four years. A lot has changed in the past…
