Month: October 2020

All Hallows’ Eve. 8.00 am: October would not go down without a fight. A world in disarray. All roads lead back to human folly, recklessness, avarice, hubris, deceit, selfishness, and wilful…

7.15 am: I’m sure it tastes delicious, but the colour reminds me of dirty water in a paint-jar.| Porridging. 8.00 am: A communion. 8.30 am: There were a few emails…

8.20 pm: Into the heavy rain towards a food outlet that I’d not visited since March. It was good to be back. The front door of the School recognised my…

I dreamt that Boris Johnson was the manager of a local Boots pharmacy. 8.00 am: A communion. 8.30 am: A day for teaching and research at home. First, a spot…

There’s no such thing as landscape. Landscape is what we do to, and how we conceive, the soil, trees, hills, mountains, rivers, seas, clouds, sky, cities, towns, etc. A poor…

Sunday, October 25. With ‘TV Church’ and housework behind me, I headed onto the road for a run down Llanbadarn Road, through the cemetery, up Plasg Crug Avenue, returning home…

We’re now in the position of having to govern the Government. 7.00 am: From tomorrow, after the clocks go back, until the end of Winter, darkness will begin to prevail…

9.00 am: ‘What’s happened!’: The ‘area risk’ had been ‘level is LOW’. So, either there’d been an appalling spike in infections last night, or this is in anticipation of our…

7.15 am: 8.00 am: A communion. 8.30 am: Onto the streets, moving towards the School of Art to begin a day of third-year painting tutorials. The semester is flying by…

6.00 am: I put my feet on the bedroom floor following a dismal night’s sleep. I ‘potched’ around the studio until it was time for ablutions and breakfast. 8.00 am:…