We have a little hiccup with the flooring that means re-sanding and a delay, but please imagine sitting on my window seat which is now properly in place. #renovation

This image by Kiyoshi Yamashita below inspired my garden planting (particularly of the Firework Bed where peonies and dahlias stand in for starry bursts, and the allium and foxtails are rockets).🌱 (it’s a visual stretch but it’s concept works)

R has spent the morning helping me to unmush my brain and prioritise my tasks. I am dropping things all over the place, please bear with me in my hours of chaos. If you are on the waiting end of the chaos, I’m sorry, I’m getting there.

TONIGHT! Hedgepig News! Double hog, fine blossom, blue moon.

I like my lightning blue

My parents have started the process of selling the family home (after my lovely Pa has had a couple of falls) and boy, do i feel weird about it even though it is the right thing.

Skill issue. Next. GCSE in art and still paints, i can well imagine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happy Birthday to my darling Mimi, still off to the zoo for her birthday 25 years later. 💝🎉💋

Morning of farmers market for fancy dog treats, charcuterie and Breton cider, breakfast with a cute boy and sitting in the shade under a horse chestnut tree spottîng future conkers and drinking coffee.

Oh for the liberty of the incandescent, annihilating moon.

3. Can I metabolise you in my sleep / extrude you into my mouth / breathe you out before the dawn / let us see what the dream says

Alice Rohrwacher is set to direct an adaptation of Italo Calvino’s ‘THE BARON IN THE TREES’. The story follows a young noble who, after clashing with his father, chooses to live his entire life in the treetops. (via Variety? #TheBaronInTheTrees #AliceRohrwacher #ItaloCalvino

This is a bloody marvel. @jennychambles.bsky.social has found ways to be extremely erudite and extremely tender. It’s out on July 4th and you really should make it your summer read — but not just for summer.

It’s morning coffee in the garden season. If, like me, you are deeply disturbed by the state of the world, please contemplate this butterfly cruising a californian lilac. Will it help? I don’t know but it’s worth a shot.

Planting new flowers Pentagon. Petals. I saw these flying orbs, too. Look at this. Explanation. Ex-Official. - lines.pastmoon

Fun fact: Freud offered to read his patient's thirsty messages to their crushes. Wrote about it in a book called The Interpretation of DMs

Pls admire my shadow gap. The floor has taken quite a time with the weather, and the stain needs knocking back and evening out, but we edge closer to being finished. (We *might* stain the oak seat, jury’s out)

And just like that undergraduate teaching is over and I am face down in an iced coffee on a table in the SU. It’s 28C.

out of sorts / do not want to work

What a tangle of covers to wriggle free from.

Night, moon-fanciers.

Tonight on the patch 🌱

Today I’m wearing the *most* nondescript/banal “classic” outfit of white tee and pale blue jeans and I feel horrifyingly visible. 🤷‍♀️

*taps mic*👇

A120.3 Incorporeal god.

Portrait of my one true love

Fresh scallops in a tiny shack in Tai O. Crabcakes at Faidley’s in Baltimore.

Did I sleep or did I just lie in a reverie of the line of your shoulder all night? *sighs of admission*

quite a special look at the derek jarman material in BFI’s collection

Goodnight, hot things, from the honeysuckle bower.

As of today, I am 25% through this book draft.

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Follow me for my gospel and fuck your deadlines.

Misread ‘have you seen’ for ‘I love you’.

Your child is a completely separate human to you, don’t treat them like an extension of yourself.

Can’t remember if I ever said, but this is #TheBlueskyPastorale,thread

May 24. The Duchesse arrives in the best lace to bring some glamour to the more gentle Everest alliums. Not that the bees noticed, they can’t be distracted, tongue deep in white stars. And on the edges, dark lilies gather in alien whorls, Californian lilacs shimmer purple in thirty degree heat 🌱

R just described my current state of wip as ‘outback opal hunting’ and yes the horrible boredom and discomfort and the flashes of something transcendent is correct.

Foxglove theatre / other urban foxes

HEDGEPIG NEWS: three little blighters tonight, one scuttled into a bush too fast for me to capture, one I met casually charging down the street, the last was a lucky spot. Also spotted en route: enfer, my shadow self.

oh fuck i forgot i was going to Cold War Synths this afternoon 😭

A real must-read by #WilliamDavies #Stupidology First time I've encountered any theory on the value of imagination as a compositional tool, though ofc I believe that to be true as an artist. Love this mag. Makes me want to be in the world. @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

Some days, it is very hard to live with another human, even a very delightful one.

Today's sky

dear poets, ,,, and non-poets,,

MOOSE GOD on the skyline. ALL BOW.

Always

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It’s 25C, the factor 50 is on, and I’ve finally made it to my work station for today.