And today after I get some sleep there’s a music thing at the local pub a mile away, then at four nine miles in the other direction a party and then another open-mic gig at The Anchor in Woodbridge. The big question is cab or car? I don’t drink until after I’m not performing, or only one drink, but I might want a drink afterwards.<\/p>\n
I talked to a friend yesterday, someone I’ve known since school. “Do something about living in Tony Blair’s Isington,” she said. “I used to read your email rants and laugh out loud.” She still has them from 15 years ago. Maybe we need to talk but we’ve never quite got around to it somehow.<\/p>\n
Her advice was don’t be one-dimensional. Despite describing my stand-up stuff as cathartic and affirming and transformational \u00a0 ( I know, I’ve got to look all that up in a minute as well….) she told me to write stuff not just about my stream of not-quite gelling relationships. Even Wordsworth wrote about daffodils and Coleridge, my West Country dope-addled literary hero above all others, the man who melted and moulded words to create something more akin to a 1980s Tom Petty video than something people in crinolines might read, he wrote about all kinds of stuff. Gardens. Ships. Albatrosses. Crossbows. Caverns, if you’ll pardon the expression, measureless to man.<\/p>\n
For years I’ve been fascinated by old photos. At last I think what I meant to write about them has come out properly. Almost. It’ll probably change a little soon but this draft is almost\u00a0there. I think I’m going to do this one tonight and see how it goes.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Slightly Foxed<\/b><\/h3>\n
<\/p>\n
Box Brownies, Linda Eastman,<\/p>\n
Cartier-Bresson, Fox-Talbot;<\/p>\n
Just the names talk of pictures.<\/p>\n
Photo-gravures and glass plates,<\/p>\n
Fox-Talbot patented film and wrote a paper<\/p>\n
For the Edinburgh Journal of Science<\/p>\n
In 1826 bewitching “Some Experiments<\/p>\n
On Coloured Flame”; To the\u00a0Quarterly Journal of Science<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n In 1827 a paper on “Monochromatic Light”;<\/p>\n
![\"Share](\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/button100x23.png\")
<\/a>