WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED BECOMING SOCIALLY DISTANCED FROM ONE'S CHILD? I had not intended to write another entry until we discover what awaits us on the other side of the 'Orange Zone', but two observations have prompted me to do so. The first of almost no consequence and yet it is small domestic contingencies, easily [...]
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Tuesday 12th May The Coronet Diaries.
Gala as Janie Morris (Ken Russell) Today is busy beyond. Someone has bagged a zoom at 9AM, and that means I will be too tired to write today, or rather I will privilege my Zoom essay. Not sure who is going to want to read it but I want to write it and that is [...]
Saturday 9th May The Coronet Diaries.
Everyone it seems is watching Normal People. I mentioned that at least three people during the course of Zoom sessions last week appealed to me to watch it. While they thought I would it enjoy it, they also thought it would communicate to me something more or unspoken about themselves, or in other instances about [...]
Friday 8th May The Coronet Diaries
GROVE RD. MITCHAM, MAY 1945. (Photo courtesy of John Haynes.) Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato I am told the May Day holiday has been changed to celebrate, I am not sure what the official title of today is, although I know it is seventy five years since the war ended. [...]
Wednesday 6th May The Coronet Diaries.
EARLY MORNING ON THE VERGE, TODAY: REGENTS PARK. ( PHOTO JOHN HAYNES) I woke this morning like Prince Orsino in Twelfth Night calling for music. Randomly, I was calling for Greensleeves. Why Greensleeves? I have no idea except I find it one of the most nostalgic arrangements of Early Music. Of England. Of, 'A green [...]
Thursday 30th April. The Coronet Diaries.
LEONARDO'S HUMUNCULUS (John says the diary should be subtitled Granny Takes A Trip, which was the first of the hip sixties shops (1966) at the end of the King's Rd, World's End. More to come about those heady days another time.) ORIGINAL DESIGN BY JOHN PEARSE GRANNY TAKES A TRIP I have woken up unable [...]
Tuesday 21st April.The Coronet Diaries.
LAUREN BACALL IN 'SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH' 1985 (photo John Haynes) I have not succeeded in finding the metaphysical quote about 'owning your face' that precedes George Orwell's. My horn-playing, croissant baking, child training, civil servant, Rapunzel emailed me in the night to volunteer the reference below about character and the middle-aged face. I shall [...]
