April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. I thought it was going to be a good day but tonight with all the hysteria about the infected tiger - oh how I wish I was writing about The Tiger Who Came [...]
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Sunday 5th April The Coronet Diaries. Palm Sunday.
What rule is set forth by which Jehovah will be guided in executing his judgments? Ezekiel 14:12-20 VISION OF EZEKIEL 1912: DAVID BOMBERG I am not a believer except in Gaia. I have memories of being the only Jew in a Church of England school situated up a foreboding Holloway Hill in Godalming, Surrey in [...]
Saturday 4th April The Coronet Diaries.
No Skypes today. Instead an exhilarating day of childcare. And mop-work. Very satisfying. I cannot imagine we will get to the seaside this summer but this is one of my favourite images of childhood. maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell [...]
Friday 3rd April The Coronet Diaries
I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not:As those that fear they hope, and know they fear. (Twelfth Night) Title page of the original edition in 1722 Daniel Defoe I have had to fit my diary compulsion in early today which meant getting up even earlier to write. I have just now - as I'm [...]
Thursday 2nd April The Coronet Diaries.
Avignon (photo John Haynes)) I have managed some housework today which always makes me feel good. And Yoga. I even washed the mattress cover so we will have to wrestle with the bed again tonight. I think what I enjoy most about staying in hotels is the immaculately made bed. The second thing I do [...]
Wednesday 1st April The Coronet Diaries ‘what fools we mortals be!’
Ian Holm as King Lear. 1997 NT production directed by Richard Eyre (photo John Haynes) Damn! I've just realised it's April Fool's Day and as I keep remarking what fools we mortals be. Bell and me planned a fooling for her parents although she was worried not to make them more anxious. I wanted her [...]
Tuesday 31st March The Coronet Diaries.
FROM HIGH TO LOO My industrial consignment I'm not sure if I will be fit for purpose when I finish tonight but just in case I'm not in true Shakespearian style I am moving from high to low, tragedy to the ridiculous. A few days back I blogged about the humble lavatory roll and the [...]
