Sweet little things, darling, beautiful. Sitting in the Autumn sunshine. Idyllic, picturesque. The little orange beetle pottered along my windowsill, innocently investigating the carcass of a dead fly, before scuttling on towards the window. I smiled. For some reason, ladybirds had always carried that evocative sense of childhood memories. This was the first time I …
The deadline for early application to UK universities through UCAS fell one week ago. Thankfully, by this time I had already submitted my final application, to which my references had been added and the progressions team at my college had looked over. Still, the oppressive feeling of doubt hung over me like a gloomy cloud. …
21/10/2018 – 10 mins “Fruit flies and wasps and evil black ladybirds. I like saying that. Evil. Black ladybirds.” On the walls, on the ceiling, creeping under the door. A swarm, a flock, a wave. Questioning, pressing, always pushing onward. Who do we choose to save? The strangers? The foreigners? The odd And unusual ones. …
19/10/18 – 5mins The freshness breaks hard against our backs, Cruel, unforgiving, unfamiliar. But, something else… something New and altogether different. Again, freshness coils around us, encircling, All-enveloping, overwhelming. Taken to dizzy new heights The light! The light! Somewhere altogether different. I have never tasted such clean air Together, no more divided, we spread …
“Here’s the mould of a musical bird long passed from light, Which over the earth before man came was winging;” –Hardy, T. Today I volunteered at a creative writing workshop in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum. It was organised to commemorate the writing of Thomas Hardy, who, in 1915, visited the RAMM and wrote a …
Pheeeeeew. Deep Breath. These first few lines are the very beginning. I sit in my slightly cooler than comfortable bedroom, the drooping pillows threatening my spine with lifelong posture problems, my fingers hover excitedly over the keys. I watch my feet, clad in white socks one run away from the bin, dancing excitedly too and …
