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These past twenty months have been difficult, for everyone. Periods of intense highs and crushing lows, peaks, and troughs far more intense than any rollercoaster. I am currently struggling, badly. My mental health has plummeted to such an extent that thoughts I hoped I’d never experience again, have re-emerged over …
“This is the land of the Saxons. I want to discover where they buried their warriors and kings” Detectorists, Season 1, Episode 1 There are many who claim that we should look to the skies, to the future, in order to progress, to connect. But there’s a lot to be …
This week I headed over to the latest ‘monument’ to arise in London, the Marble Arch Mound. Opened to the public earlier this year, it has been the subject of much controversy, due, in part, to its somewhat ‘unique’ aesthetic, and that its cost, from design through to completion, has …
A few weeks ago, I ventured to Kent to say ‘hello’ to Robert Calvert, a pivotal member of the band, Hawkwind, whose physical remains rest alongside his son, Daren, at Minster. It was an exceptionally quiet Friday afternoon. A few people visited the cemetery to bring offerings to loved ones, …
These past few weeks I’ve been looking inwards, frequently. My Twitter timeline seems to have suddenly become inundated with positive ‘BuzzTweets’; ‘Don’t worry about what’s happened, focus on what’s ahead’, ‘Today’s a new day, a new beginning, so smile’, but why should I? Maybe all this toothsome positivity is manifesting …
“The movement embodied in islands is the ‘consciousness of the earth and ocean’, a place where the dual elements of the earth’s surface are in sharp relief” Rainbird 2007, 1; Deleuze 2004, 11 Since the earlier 19th century islands have been viewed as insular environments, somewhat segregated, whether voluntarily, or …
During these past few months of lockdown, I’ve had time to sit and consider things that perhaps wouldn’t normally be at the forefront of my mind. The fact that as a person with a heavily compromised immune system I am one of the people who have been placed on our …
