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40 middle aged and older women in Xmas hats on a stage in Burnley town centre giving it everything singing Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap in a passable way just reduced me to tears in street. It's great what people get up to.

About to have three GLORIOUS days off at home. Laptop stays in Paris.

2025 British & Irish Botanical Conference #BIBConf25 takes place at Edge Hill University on Saturday 29 November. We have a fabulous programme lined up for plant-lovers! Exhibits & 8 talks inc. a keynote by Prof John Rodwell (of NVC fame). Programme & bookings: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

It's the very definition of no audience on here, nice and roomy.

Open Studio but for you it means Trapped

AHRC Landscape Awards feels like a fkn mess imo

Last night, sleeping on the sofa as my friend is visiting, my hot water bottle burst.

So fkn excited to have picked up @joannapocock.bsky.social latest from @after8books.bsky.social this afternoon. Thanks Paris!

the bright blessed day and dark sacred night

Dear films, clair du lune is over jesus christ.

I have spent the last two weekends (and the Thurs and Fri last week) locked into reading for and writing research methodologies for two different projects 7am - 9pm*. I like exercising my hyperfocus powers but now my eye socket hurts.

Cornucopia of tasks, so little Christmas feelings.

Every now and then I remember someone leaning into me at dinner queue of an expensive rural sound art residency, saying, oh goodie! more orange slop.

On Intersex Remembrance Day, we remember past harms and celebrate progress. Europe has taken a historic step and adopted the first-ever Recommendation protecting intersex people’s human rights. Here’s Kitty Anderson, co-chair of European intersex organisation @oiieurope.org, on what this means.

Do not send emails to an autistic person last thing on a Friday suggesting substantial reframing of project, just to box your to do list off before the week end, leaving days with no recourse to engagement or clarification. Just saying.

I had a v thoughtful, sharp and helpful studio visit from Marcella Lista from Centre Pompidou. When curators think with you, alongside you, it's the best. Such a gift of intellectual labour as though there is a common project to making work irrespective of commission etc.

My Penguin Friend is one of the best based on a true story films I ever saw. A penguin repeatly travelled to see this man in tropcial Brazil and hang out.

£10k is not enough for a book prize I don't think. It needs to be valued as a year off work imho

Watched an Italian film. Went shop and bought a packet of this mortadella they were making a fuss about. Tried some and put it in the fridge. Went back to the fridge, had another piece. Went back to the fridge x4. All gone before lunchtime.

If you know someone with these skills and experience, who could use a day a week income boost (£20ph) please send them my job advert. Mostly remote. Need a good egg to work with Jan - July, to help me organise current project workloads and past documentation. 🌲🌳🌲🌳 www.artsjobs.org.uk/jobs/70926

If you are interested in Anthropology and the work of David Graeber, our live stream with Prof Tim Ingold starts now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc2...

Gets under my skin that arts funding seems to be tied to lack of health and welfare provision. All sorts of problems with this tethering.

www.plutobooks.com/product/disa... Today is penultimate reading group for this historical materialist account of disability in UK. I started the Disability Praxis Reading Group because I felt I knew nothing of a 'shared' history, but recognised a shared struggle. And I was p lonely in France.

Nice straightforward review. At the end it focuses on a sound work by Éireann and I that I selected along with curator Iarlaith Ní Fheorais (call centres, immigration, language, precarity) for commission as part of Platform Commissions for 41st EVA International. artreview.com/41st-eva-int...

New #GBRedList for vascular plants evaluated 1,720 species. 26% (up from 23% in 2005) assessed as threatened. Common Restharrow, Marsh-marigold & Harebell: all Vulnerable. Alpine Gentian: Endangered. Work was led by Pete Stroh from @bsbibotany.bsky.social & funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social

The Easy Read Artist Contract that Jack Ky Tan did with FACT Liverpool back in 2021 is a god send. And the artist's website is just *brilliant* jackkytan.tiddlyhost.com

Yippeeee! Work has agreed to pay for me to go to the Group Relations Conference at the Tavistock Clinic next month. Five long days of sitting in circles talking to people about how we are experiencing sitting in circles talking to people. CANNOT wait. A good essay around it here:

Only got eight tea bags left. FFS.

Sent draft research outline I worked on for four days straight and is grounded in a different discipline (omg), followed by a meeting with current project's audio producer to design a brief for the composer, and now I'm going to bum shuffle around the nice cool floor with the telly on eating nuts.

I am here for Your Party and Green Party and all their nascant instability, so I fondly laughed my balls off reading this. Doesn't change my options tho does it.

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Happy Halloween, this should take you to the end of it. It's v v good. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sarah More Peach Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Scrub the names of those noble towns from your mealy mouth.

Nice maracarlyle.bandcamp.com/album/lividl...

Gentlefolk from the shire were the heros of that story lol

Arranged to meet someone. I met them. Was nice. But wait there's more. The rest of the day is metabolising all the new info + expelling excesses of energy that come from it; more than 10mls of energy is excess for me. Argh! (Real Monsters) Is this what Christians mean by their cup overfloweth?

Just looked in my spam folder. Fucking hell. Eyes clawed out. Delete now.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Edinburgh do it!

After my first day back in France, post- being thick as thieves with Toby for days, and I clenched my teeth all night and have woken with sore, swollen gums that have buried my premolars, plus heart ache. This is the night we all had a cottage pie 💔

The imperial noble legend of my heart, the harebell. Miss home.

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I fed a cold hornet honey

I’m autistic and non-speaking. Here’s what I want you to know

5 expensively dressed curators pile in my studio at 7.30pm led by Hans himself and I do a run down of an 18month project in my pjs and fluffy slippers with all my red light bulbs on in under 20mins then go back to watching vampire programme. Thanks Paris.