It has been hypothesised ancient Greeks couldn’t see blue
‘the synth is the loneliest instrument’
Impossible to imagine not seeing the sea as blue but especially the Aegean
suddenly a memory of winding wool
Roasting a chicken just so the house smells of chicken soup the next day
when your favourite cafe starts to play Bill Callahan
borrowing a friend’s dog because it’s cheaper than therapy
after a while, writing your life down for public consumption is not just damaging, it is also monotonous
what the hell happened to Ryan Adams?
Monday negronis
Looking out the train window at the exact moment a red kite takes off
Car trips through unfamiliar cities at night
Sometimes you have wished you were an eagle
Do birds take off or just fly?
dogs that stop to sniff the mimosa are the best dogs
On Falling
Predictable outcomes
Parliament Hill will break your heart
no one wants to see your hairy belly when you sit down please wear a longer top
after a while, it is probably wise to try and stay in the one place, for a while
should probably take up horse-riding again
inhalers help
Blackwing pencils but not the ones with the soft lead
Brighton lanes
possibly it is a mistake to think smoking eases anxiety
the whole point of life is to be here now, which is the hardest thing. The endless now.
it is interesting to learn who you message in an emergency
order a new notebook
baking helps
when the taxi driver tells you you don’t look like the kind of person who’d watch ID
not all life is copy
Julian Baker’s cover of A Modern Leper but not Biffy Clyro’s
white daffodils
Double bass is underrated
Hawarden
the smell of wood smoke
plant bulbs at the right time next year
just because you want to burn things doesn’t mean you should
the AI choir at the Serpentine was uncanny
Slow Horses but mostly the last series
in a dream the colour of your next book is yellow
Boulder’s Beach
How is it snowing again?
remembering your dad didn’t have curly hair, it was always a perm
Midsomer Murders helps
going from what sounds best to what looks best is a bold leap
All cats should wear ruffs
The phone boxes outside the law courts
the first time you crossed Blackfriars Bridge and the city belonged to you
Amazonian tribes see greens we can’t
you’ll never be as invincible as you believed you were at 17
would cross stitch help?
Making playlists for your characters is not the same as writing them
Ten Storey Love Song though
horror beats are the same as comedy beats
think about this more
The Ian Curtis portrait at The Face exhibition
as soon as and I wondered if I could come home doesn’t make you cry, worry
Where did my Joy Division records go?
you have never moved as fast as you do when you have to skip past My Little Corner of the World
every third generation is fated to be nostalgic about the third last one
do I love it or is it just Stockholm syndrome?
sentences that begin with and
When they moved the Beuys did it stop being Beuys and just a lot of rocks?
Everything is a reconstruction
Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
Oslo is a good idea
if there isn’t a name for it, does it not exist?
some days red vibrates
Alexander Trocchi is the greatest Scottish writer
in the 80s it was quite acceptable to bite your children
is it frustrating to make pasta from scratch?
suddenly a memory of a conversation about a doll’s house
when the taxi driver asks your favourite film and you don’t even take a beat to answer The Sound of Music
if the word for it fails to exist, does it stop existing?
Inspector Morse
When Captain Von Trapp blows that whistle
videos of people making dogs from noodles help
to cure yourself of time is almost the dream
champagne is only fizzy wine
soda-streams with the brown buttons
It always helps to name a thing
Martha Ladly on the synth for The Associates' "Party Fears Two" wasn't lonely - she was the centre of attention from Billy Mckenzie and Alan Rankine. What a song.