A Very Big-Hearted Shrug
Saturday 2nd August 2014. Around the back of St Pancras station, I stumble upon a brand new public library. A rare thing in this era of cuts and closures. Camden Council has moved its St Pancras branch...
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Saturday 11th October 2014. I watch the new BBC documentary about Genesis, mainly because I’m curious about their 1970s prog-rock phase. Fittingly, the documentary goes on a bit. * * * Monday 13th...
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Saturday 15th November 2014. I listen to an archive radio talk by Arthur Machen, about the superiority of artists who invent over those who replicate. He cites GK Chesterton on the difference between...
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Saturday 24th January 2015. A favourite track for starting the day – and for tackling most things – is Percy Faith’s Theme From A Summer Place. It soothes with a slight smirk: a camp calmative. * * *...
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The Devil Wears Car Robes
Saturday 19th September 2015. I learn that I am affected by the Department for Work and Pensions’s ‘new rules’, and may have to get by on less than I’d thought. Much of this week is spent on the phone...
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Something Where There Should Be Nothing
Late March, and for the first time I find myself looking out for new leaves on the trees. Larkin’s rare positivity: ‘Afresh, afresh, afresh’. I recently had an email from someone organising an...
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Mr Edwards Mans Up
Monday 24 June 2019. Working slowly on the third chapter of the thesis. It is currently like walking in mud. To stretch the analogy further, one fears either becoming stuck for good or that one’s...
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