A List: again

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