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Sour milk

Posted on: November 27, 2015 /
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20.51 pm ( sat on the sofa with Syd singing beside me and Naoise is making christmas cards)   This moment is close to being a moment of joy.  I don’t want to talk to this screen. I don’t want to tell you about eating sour milk poured on cereal. I don’t want to tell

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The bird wing.

Posted on: November 26, 2015 /
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19.59pm ( sat at the table in the front room at home) The wings black feathers clung on to the spindly bone. A crows wing perhaps. A boy child found the remnants and walked hunched over clasping one boney fleshy bit between two sticks whilst calling to his mother to look look look what I

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Corner

Posted on: November 25, 2015 /
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11.51am (in the studio at my desk) I am trying to write. The studio is busy with students so trying to drown out the noise of polite talk with some music. Benjamin Clementine again. I will tire of his music if I end up over playing it, but with most things in my life I

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Minging

Posted on: November 24, 2015 /
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10.05am ( sat at my desk in the studio) Its minging weather again. It rains and rains and rains. I prefer the frost and ice to the rain. I listened to Benjamin Clementine to lift my spirits. I have drunk far too much coffee. I woke at five managed to stay resting in bed till

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Sitting in the entrance of the sure start centre

Posted on: November 23, 2015 /
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9.35am. Sitting in the entrance of the sure start centre, waiting for the Friendship Group to begin. To get Naoise to eat his breakfast this morning, I needed to sit him on my knee and feed him like a baby. I posted shredded wheat pillows into his mouth. Mother Bird. I will literally do anything

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Cold

Posted on: November 22, 2015 /
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19.16pm (sat on the sofa with Naoise asleep) Back from YSP and a visit to see Bill Viola. Eaten too many liquorice allsorts. Arrived late in the afternoon but managed an hour in the galleries then a moon lit walk. The park at night is a tranquil place when emptied of people.  Me and Naoise

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Today was one of those days that I would rather forget.

Posted on: November 21, 2015 /
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Midnight-ish Today has been one of those days that I would rather forget. It began at 4am in the morning. Snow on the skylight woke me. The first snow. I went downstairs and looked out of the window. Everyone asleep. Thin snow on car roofs. Glad I had seen it, as I thought that this

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Feeling like a Fillyjonk

Posted on: November 20, 2015 /
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11.50am ( at the table in the front room) P has gone back to work, his only real concern was how to keep his support stocking from falling down. He took a crutch and imagined that he would be hitching it up as he walked along the road. I suggested a suspender belt might help

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Numb Head

Posted on: November 19, 2015 /
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6.48am (sat on the sofa) I cleaned the grim from the screen and out of the crevices of my keyboard. I tidied a kitchen cupboard so that I could put away a stash of plastic bottles and tupperware. I put the washing machine on. I tidied Syd’s school bag, signed his journal. Noted the one

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Wet Wednesday

Posted on: November 18, 2015 /
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7.01 am ( sat slumped on the sofa) I am confused. Ever feel overwhelmed by what work there is to do? I have made a massive project M(other) Stories, it is full to the brim of words  and thoughts and ideas and images. A proliferation of images. So how do I tackle that, how do

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