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Walk interrupted
film crew shooting at Purdown
safer kind of shot
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by Scooj
Tag: poem
Grasshoppers
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Atomies gather
highly strung and highly sprung
Bumper hopper year
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by Scooj
Social distance
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Infidelity
or breaking the COVID rules
which is more sinful?
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by Scooj
On the news today that Matthew Hancock, Health Secretary, has been caught on camera snogging an advisor he appointed into a senior role with the NHS. This at a time when he is advising the general public to maintain social distancing. All of this and little mention of his infidelity (it is a ‘private’ matter).
There is so much wrong with this whole episode on every level. Sadly we seem to just expect or accept this kind of behaviour from those in power and disregard it. For a country that is peddling itself as ‘Global Britain’ this is just another deeply embarrassing and damaging affair. No dignity. Shameful.
Mini break
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The girl returns home
weathered and very chatty
family restored
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by Scooj
Import
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Life before pasta
is unimaginable
what did people do?
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by Scooj
Father’s Day
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My fathers are gone
today I celebrate them
fondest memories
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by Scooj
Tent
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Ten years old or more
practice pitch in the garden
the girl goes camping
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by Scooj
Parsley in my ears
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Waiting for the boy
to watch the match together
the joy of playback
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shut out all noises or clues
I’ll put parsley in my ears
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by Scooj
This is a rather cryptic Tanka which I am composing while waiting for my son to get home from his late shift so that we can watch the England v Scotland match together on playback. I have to guard against hearing the neighbours shouting or turning on the radio or even using my phone in case I see or hear anything that might give away the score.
Putting parsley in my ears is an oblique reference to an Asterix cartoon book ‘Asterix the Gladiator’ in which the Roman soldiers put parsley in their ears so that they wouldn’t hear Cacofonix the bard singing, such was the dreadful noise he made.
3742. Cattle Market Road (8)
The extraordinary pieces on Cattle Market Road from last summer were beginning to get a bit tagged up and have recently been fair game for new work. This is one of the new collaborations to appear there, by Acer One and Conrico.
It seems to me that Acer One is pretty much up for collaborating with anyone in Bristol who can chuck paint at a wall. Here he gives us a ‘LAZY DAZE’ block of writing in his geometric font on a beachy backdrop painted by Conrico. Acer One’s letters always play tricks with my eyes, sometimes when I look at the lettering it is completely flat pattern and I can’t make out the shapes, other times, if I stand further back, the 3D effect kicks in. Very clever stuff.
Conrico is a busy artist who paints loads of walls, but often in places unfamiliar to me, so he is somewhat underrepresented in Natural Adventures. In this collaboration Conrico has created an island paradise setting with some fun elements such as the exaggerated wave and little yacht, and the crab waving a placard which reads ‘Oli T, Conrico Steez, Acer One’. Which brings me to the point of the piece, which is a tribute to Oli T’s original Lazy Daze piece painted in Kingsdown in the early 1980s, one of the earliest spray can murals in the city (information taken from Acer One’s Instagram thread).
Chill
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Dog on the sofa
the ban long since forgotten
head rests on my knee
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by Scooj
Natural adventures 