‘We can ask and ask but we can never have back the things we thought we would have forever’ A Month in the Country, JL Carr
Weaponised incompetence
The decision to learn a foreign language, John le Carré wrote shortly after the Brexit vote, is "an act of friendship... It's a promise to educate - yes — and to equip. But also to awaken; to kindle a flame that you hope will never go out ... FT Henry Mance
Dreaming spires and lost dogs / Take the corner down a trifle / We're only an inch apart on the map of England / He kissed her all over the map of Europe / He hid his face amid a crowd of stars / Fooling over clouds / Swimming with women / The sea is green / World of wood / Small man with a big hat / Gizzard Park / Dogs blanket / Pillow talk
‘But when from the long distant past nothing subsists, after people are dead, after things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more enduring, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of their recollection.’ Swans Way - Marcel Proust
You can fit a lifetime into an hour over a few pints in a Welsh pub.
It was part of her armoury: ‘Me, hateful?
A grandmother who collects pebbles?'
Sugar plum.
Poetry is when words touch each other.
He left lying down looking at his feet
‘You should have been talking to Sunny Man’ overhead
‘His neck was fat and he blamed the shirt. Top Man’ overheard
She had waterproof eyes
