“The fishermen were promised the earth and all they got was sand” Overheard comment in Cornwall on the eventual outcome of Brexit
“I don’t touch electricity” Overheard
"Maybe this is how the afterlife works. You go to a restaurant and instead of getting a menu and some breadsticks you find out you're dead." Evan Dando
‘Always go further into the water than you feel comfortable with. Wait till your feet barely touch the bottom.’
Garnish
The past falls open anywhere
Vergissmeinnicht, German for forget-me-not, the small blue flower.
‘He said he had a nodo alla gola, a knot in his throat. It was lodged in at the bottom of his windpipe, and it kept his head separated from his heart, his stomach, his lungs. He carried this knot in his throat with him everywhere. When he thought of his friends and patients. When he’d visited their graves. He said many of his colleagues also had this knot in their throat. Men and women who’d intubated and ventilated those who’d fallen sick. It was there, constantly. They carried on with their jobs same as before, only now with a knot caught deep down in their throats, not letting them breathe.’ Abbandonati, Rory Gleeson
Sticky blood
‘The name Jeff, originating from England, holds a significant meaning rooted in religion and tranquillity. Derived from the Old English name Geoffrey, Jeff is a combination of two elements:
Geo, meaning God, and frith, meaning peace. This etymology reflects the name's historical ties to spirituality and the desire for harmony.’ Ancestry.com
Time is the most precious thing we have
Beautiful mistakes
The prisoners on Alcatraz developed a real flair for rendering their own heads in toothpaste, soap, scraps of toilet roll, hair collected from the floor of the barber shop.
Huge skies, flat, corduroy fields lined with cabbages…
