The Pleasures of…… May
Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky shares his joys of May. May is the finest month. On Mayday morning everything is still to come, by June the best of the year is over. Spring opens fully to green life through May’s weeks. Sunlight stretches days earlier and later. The season thickens with birdsong and [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Dennis Hopper
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The River Wandle
From Danny Wilson. Carshalton ponds, Grove Park.
Alaotra Grebe Extinction
From Rick Webb: Not sure if this is something you’d be interested in featuring or not, but I think it resonates with much of what you’re doing (which is excellent, by the way)… Anyway the Alaotra Grebe, an apparently quite beautiful Madagascan bird is now gone forever, a result of the introduction of carnivorous fish [...]
Pike: Luke Jennings
28 May 2010 // Luke Jennings; Pike
in 1998 i was working at creation records on what i shall loosely term the escape committee. we helped people escape from their daily lives by selling them pop music. i became obsessed with escape at that time, and my own came in the form of a newspaper column published every other friday in the [...]
Lines Made By Walking
27 May 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers. 10. Flat Lines Back in sunny London, our worlds are starting to move. This summer, we will leave our little rented flat in Newington Green, and take our lives somewhere else. This is partly because our landlady wants to sell up, but mainly because we know this is time to grow up. [...]
Tracey Thorn Competition
Jeez that was popular. Thanks to everyone who entered. The answer was of course To The Greenhouse and the winners are Anne Robbins, Richard Shepherd and Claire Collison. Tracey will be signing your prize and it should be with you very soon. Thanks to the Strange Feeling record label for making this possible. For Tracey [...]
Chris Watson Watch
Chris Watson: Whispering in the Leaves. The Palm House, Kew Gardens, May 29 – September 5. Press Release: Chris Watson’s Whispering in the Leaves is an extraordinary sound installation, using recordings to transport us to the rainforests of South and Central America. Throughout the summer festival, Kew’s Palm House will be diffused with the dawn [...]
The Bird Effect Diaries
25 May 2010 // The Bird Effect
The diary of the making of a film. and an on going fascination with birds and their accompanying cast of human characters. By Ceri Levy. Wednesday 28th October A real rarity appeared on Staines Moor while I was away, a Brown Shrike. This little fellow should be in Asia not Middlesex. That’s a real case [...]
Pint by the River – Sambrook’s Junction (4.9%)
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Caught by the River