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BELLEAU COTTAGE: July 2012
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012. Where do ghosts live? I must start with a couple of apologies, firstly, this blog is being posted about two weeks late so not quite topical, and secondly for the quality of the photographs, they were taken with my iphone - not my usual camera of choice. Anyway we’ve been making the most of these breaks in the weather to take long evening constitutionals to some of our favourite haunts. Another night, another trek, this time by the Great Eau, I happened to turn from the river and my...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: March 2012
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Saturday, 17 March 2012. The Wild West End. London, what the Dickens? I’ve been witness to a media gunfight; compliments shot with the violence of bullets ricocheted off a members club wall, while the war cries of good jobs and success echoed around the room. It all started as I sat in a Soho members club, I was a little too involved in what I was doing to notice that the afternoon was giving way to early evening and I’d missed my window of escape. There was a moment of calm whilst the gunslingers eyed e...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: June 2013
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Sunday, 23 June 2013. Then on to the heart of the city with the coffee shop chains serving the early rising tourists or the late to bed revellers, the tired looking traders trudging head down to work while the traffic tunes up for its noisy opera of revving engines and hooting horns. I must admit all this activity gave me teensy tinge of sadness, that is the memory of youth and the good times had. However, it wasn’t always like this, there was a time as a young club promoter when this town felt lik...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: May 2013
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Thursday, 2 May 2013. I’ve been waiting for Spring before I stuck my words above ground, but what with the delay of that and the fact that melancholy had seeped into like treacle over the winter, filling my veins and slowing my pace, four months have shot past before I’ve used my computer for anything but work. It was good to see that even my old friend has finally got into the spirit of things and is bristling with leaf buds. Now he’s a great listener so good in fact to that rudely I’ve neve...He seems ...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: A sound proof box
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Friday, 28 December 2012. A sound proof box. I never knew his real name for a long time, he was dad to me and Mac to everyone else, including mum. What fragments of his early history I do know about came in fractured conversation greased with dripping and washed down with cold tea. Dad would talk of his early life in the 'big house' although the only memory I can recall him telling me was that he and his sister were forced to eat fruit cake, the dislike of which stuck with him all his life. It may have b...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: August 2012
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012. Method in the madness. So Summer started today and if the weather forecasters are to be believed, ends later in the week, but in the meantime it's hot, hot, hot. I don't know if it is down to weather phenomena or early on set of cataracts but I seem to be seeing the early evenings through different eyes. A lavender sky over peacock puddles, roasted fields that steam with the smell of wet dog and I could swear I saw the full moon bouncing on a cloud the other night. There has be...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: April 2012
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Friday, 6 April 2012. A spring of consciousness. I have a smile on my verge at the moment if not on my face, a sunny grin that spreads across the cottage, a yellow sigh that I share with birds, insects and animals alike. Its handover time for the seasons, the daffs are in full bloom and the clocks have gone forward. Custard coloured primrose nestle in the dikes and hedgerows,. Taking over from those early risers. I'd never say that I was well read but probably well watched, I think this comes from my int...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: Spring Break
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Thursday, 2 May 2013. I’ve been waiting for Spring before I stuck my words above ground, but what with the delay of that and the fact that melancholy had seeped into like treacle over the winter, filling my veins and slowing my pace, four months have shot past before I’ve used my computer for anything but work. It was good to see that even my old friend has finally got into the spirit of things and is bristling with leaf buds. Now he’s a great listener so good in fact to that rudely I’ve neve...He seems ...
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BELLEAU COTTAGE: September 2013
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013. A movie in the making. So it’s September the harvest is upon us and autumn beckons. This summer has been viewed through a time-lapse camera, London with its all consuming consumerism, conflict and conformity, work with its want it yesterday attitude and the salty squeeze of a holiday has conspired to keep me away from the cottage. I caught the opening scene, summer lapped at the country lanes with its gentle waves of long grasses bennet and blossom, the garden filled with young...
