▪️ in search of the lost castles ▪️

four corners of today in the garden

If you're in London and swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond, please ensure our trans (and intersex and NB) sisters can keep enjoying the most body-positive, non-judgemental and frankly utopian spaces in the city. Letting the body police decide who's 'feminine enough' to swim would wreck it for all of us.

earlier, & somewhere else

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a small exhibition of found art

BHP are excited to welcome our September guest editor - Alexander Booth!!! @wordkunst.bsky.social THEME/S: _LANDSCAPE LABYRINTH_ __Submissions are open from today 1st September – and will remain open until 25TH SEPTEMBER__ Sendxxx burninghousepress.com/2025/09/01/s...

saw the moon and thought of you (again)

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The Campanile dissolving into the dusk, you say? May I present my excellent photography from last night...🍸

München D 2025

I will show you fear in a handful of balls

Jackdaw fledgling, still with its yellow gape, down the chimney for the second day in a row.

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It takes a good book to keep me up all night, and this is a very good book. Excellent in so many ways. I'm sure it will be studied on life writing & memoir courses in future, but I really hope it travels far & reaches a wide audience (beyond the lit bubble) Published by @andotherstories.bsky.social.

rain soon, apparently

⬅️↖️⬆️↗️➡️

Last of the rhubarb from the garden. Not enough for crumble, possibly enough for sorbet.

Projects I’ll never have time to finish, part whatever. Please enjoy these prototypes for trading cards based on Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms and alter egos.

my gooseberries are coming along nicely

desire lines (call me)

I had two longings & one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved & I wanted to be always alone.

i am geometry

Cub update (cupdate?): we appear to have at least EIGHT cubs

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Fox update (fupdate?): we appear to have FOUR cubs

the sea, the sea

My enormous face appreciating a beautiful discussion on Derrida's last interview, on learning to live finally, why learning to live should mean learning to die, & other violences of language... (& still my phone wants live to be love). Deep thanks to @frankgarrett.online for facilitating this group.

tried to take a photo of a bat

Manchester Writing School Summer Festival, details have now been released! Free to attend for current students with bursary options for non-MMU people - both online & in-person sessions. A fantastically rich programme! www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

THE SWIFTS ARE BACK!!!

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Fledglings look so angry. I love them.

phwoar 🌿

my crabapple tree looking better than ever after a fierce prune last year 🔪🌸

Raising a glass to you, @minxmarple.bsky.social 🥂 & happiest of birthdays, from my garden to yours 🌿🌺

an abundance of bees ravishing my currant bushes!

rummaging through some old art experiments this afternoon I found a little forgotten painting and multiplied it ... you are most welcome to walk over my new carpet :)

I have a new post, about the alluring non-spaces in sketches: ofsmith.substack.com/p/partial-pi...

I'm not sure I've ever had a hot take, but I do think Thomas Pynchon is the Dread Pirate Roberts.

BARN OWL!!

1890

soon

Pear trees about to explode in the garden: Conference on the left, Pêra Rocha on the right. The Rocha ripens 3 weeks later than the Conference, so in the autumn we'll get a long run of fruit.

the entirety of Perec's LIEUX now available online: lieux-georges-perec.seuil.com