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wow: amanda f****** palmer rocks TED
afp is so so inspiring! Here she explains how asking without shame means the audience get to participate again instead of being treated like sheep by capitalist ticks, there to be bloodsucked…how it...
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re stating intentions…
Mmmm…I just re read my description of what I’m making to be fundraising pledge rewards, and you know what, it’s drifted… which is fine, because I have a better idea now! This is what is known as...
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because i am that woman
because i came in today and saw that The Guardian thinks it is ok to frame a discussion of International Women’s Day around the right to wear a skirt and I am really ANGRY! when there is still topless...
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bundles make magic
“The proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful...
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sea change
I am so tired! Keith came round and we had a photoshoot of gaia’s guardians, renamed to SEA CHANGE… This is a huge win, as he took a photo I could easily turn into promotion posters and flyers. We took...
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happy earth day!
given the earth is so many billion years old, I don’t think it’ll matter if I hug a tree tomorrow instead
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philosophy of change
singingbird sea change statement I’ve googled but can’t find a way round this…what I’d like to do is copy and paste 3 sides of A4 to this blog page, but this is the best a bear of very little brain can...
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bundles
I have been tidying up in the studio, putting away sea change and then picking through boxes of randomness that were sent through from the living room in order to make space. A couple of cat-astrophes...
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progress on bundles
Thanks to Wain for asking why I wrap bundles, it gave me the spark to write a post. I have been working slowly as I am very tired after the physical effort of going to see the graduate shows and then...
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Biodiversity loss: the past’s sci-fi warnings are here
This is the song that frames Silent Running, a film I have never been able to watch without crying…that it should ever come to pass that the only way to save the biodiversity of Earth would be to send...
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waste not, want not 1: sprouting seeds, growing potatoes
I have been thinking about waste again, partly because I am reading Richard Girling’s ‘Rubbish! Dirt on our Hands and Crisis Ahead’ Rubbish!: (Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead) which is very...
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summer solstice garden
so, ok, I cheated, these were taken yesterday, as I couldn’t hold a camera steady with frozen shoulder/dead arm on the actual solstice, but these pictures are about the very green lushness of the...
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mocktails and smoothies
I was lucky at the Saturday market at Sneinton and got 3 honeydew melons for £1! Also 2 punnets of plums for £1.20 and a generous chunk of fresh ginger for 60p, so this week’s easy peasy but fresh and...
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sunny days in the garden
The dog rose is flowering, and the loveliest thing is seeing how many more are to come! There are two dozen buds on that branch alone This bush was drowned in sycamore weedlings before Ben in flat 2...
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waste not, want not: raised beds for veg
The number of self seeded and unwanted sycamores in the communal garden is almost beyond counting: Ben took down 35 in one weekend and hardly made a dent on anything except the woodpile Not totally...
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Hollie McNish: the best poet of the streets since Benjamin Zephaniah?
A friend sent me a link to Hollie McNish on you tube, and I was stunned: she is the best poet I’ve heard perform for ages! I went to a lot of performance poetry events with Andy (Andy Postman, my...
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Thinking outside the button box…
So even though it is hooooot! hothothot! hoooooooot! my hands still hurt, grrrr, and now my elbows have joined in, grrr. Rassen frassen… The chiropractor has advised me to do less and avoid chopping in...
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fixing our communities
There is a joy in making something work again, or giving it a new life, that people have been consumerised out of in the last 20 years. I have a weakness for £/$ shops, as I often find bankrupt stock...
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diversity at Pride
First: a big thank you to the friendly strangers who helped me when the taxi driver jammed the brake on my rollator again! They pushed the rollator lifted on to its front wheels and carried a big bag...
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waste not, want not 3: Tshirts to bags 1
Amazing the difference it makes when I have almost no pain from my elbow! Suddenly I feel lively and interested in things, and life is sending lots of interesting artists to research – excellent timing...
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