I came home late after a movie last night. Feeling a need to do sewing - I looked for a radio show to stitch along with and found an Ivor Cutler series - so entranced by his sweet weirdness, I gobbled up 3 episodes and made this skirt.
here's a taste of Ivor:
My niece and nephew have arrived for the weekend, the four-year-old insisted on showing me all her jewels before coming into the house while the eight-year-old went to inspect the house, apparently it mostly meets with his approval except that my bedroom 'could do with a tidy-up'
You end up committing yourself to what you are left with Robert Wyatt
I don’t know what I want; I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Gerhard Richter
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
‘The Garden Against Time’ by Olivia Laing
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Rachel Cooke at The Guardian: Olivia Laing’s new book, The Garden Against
Time, is as fragrantly replete as a long border at its peak. The word that
comes ...
Chepito?
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Slavomír Čéplö (aka bulbul) wrote me as follows: I have a mystery which I
was hoping you or one of the Hatters might help me to solve. It involves a
Church...
Voice Flowers
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In 1885, seeking a way to depict vocal sounds visually, Welsh singer Megan
Watts Hughes invented the eidophone, a chamber capped with an elastic
membrane t...
Thanksgiving Letter to the Family
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Dear Family, Once again, we will gather for turkey and all the trimmings
this Thanksgiving. Trump remains a pain in my rump, but I have decided to
rise ab...
Listening to Noise
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As decibel levels continue to rise, threatening human existence we turn to
two listening experts for help. George Prochnik and George Foy both
investigat...
Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries
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The show addresses a series of themes including: gravity as “the greatest
designer”, extraterrestrial architecture, deep space mysteries, future body
modif...
Can you die of a broken heart?
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Researchers have looked at what goes on in the brain,
and for lovers and addicts it’s exactly the same.
Those who are newly in love
experience joy in the...
Nice skirt ... and done so quickly! I admire sewing skills. What sewing machine do you use?
ReplyDeletePS: I'm guessing from his observation that this is the "Well, pants" nephew.
I have a tiny electric Singer that used to belong to my grandmother. Yes it is the 'pants' nephew and his cookie-making sister
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