JOHN TOOK THIS EXTRAORDINARY PICTURE AT CAMDEN LOCK JUST DAYS BEFORE LOCKDOWN. (COPYRIGHT JOHN HAYNES) It is not a good day for me, not because I cannot bear very much reality but because there are good days and bad days; even therapists have bad days. To be precise, the day is good enough: everyone in [...]
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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 [...]
Saturday 11th April The Coronet Diaries.
April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. (Eliot) My latest ostrich fashion accessory I slept very badly last night. Partly the wretchedness of the mortality statistics of the 10PM BBC News, which John is attached to. After the headlines I had [...]
