By week five I am more than halfway through the art residency in Bath, and the clock is starting to tick quite loudly. I know I’m going to be taking a week out for some…
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59. Art Residency wk 3: Out and about
It is already week 3 of my nine-week residency, and you may be wondering how I said yes to such a long project, without sorting out my accommodation first? Well, to be honest, I have…
58. Art Residency wk 2: Sharp stuff
After my excited purchase of a shed-load of sharp knives, I gather all the glues, tapes, base-boards, and other stuff I think I might need, and head back down the M4 to Bath. Once there,…
57. Art Residency wk 1: Back to Bath
It’s only in movies where the grief-stricken get to lie in bed for a year, looking badly made-up yet still delicately beautiful, not even rising to go to the loo apparently, whilst someone else handily encourages them to eat.
55. Lockdown dating
Lockdown dating: well, that’s a misnomer, for a start. It would be better to call it a series of odd texts and even weirder phone conversations. After I decide to stick my toe in the…
53. From Aquaman to Hercules
A quick word about this blog – until now all my posts have been in chronological order, and I’ve shared my story with you just as it happened. And although I have many more tales…
47. Portugal in pink and blue
The Algarve is an area of Portugal rightly famed for its coastline. The simplest of online searches will provide images of pristine sands swept by dazzlingly blue seas. And that’s all well and good if…
43. Beer, Beatles and bats
I’m flying to Prague and thinking about Shakespeare. He coined the phrase, ‘The world is mine oyster’, but I reckon he’d be mind-blown at the ease with which we all globe-trot these days. It’s all become…
42. A sign of the times
While it is true that travel broadens the mind, it also brings ones home country into sharp relief. Not so sharp as to be a shock, but sharp enough for me to be thinking, really?…