Sunday March 23rd 2003
My son, aged 8, talked about the curse of always seeking a girlfriend. I said I had been like that as a child.
‘Oh, the curse’ he said.
He had a dream of three big pipes to the future he could go down – one said brain, one said heart and one said wits. He found the brain one scary, so decided to go down wits.
Wednesday March 23rd 2005
Go there,
I don’t know where.
Bring it,
I don’t know what.
From a Russian folk-tale
Saturday March 23rd 2019
Tuesday March 23rd 2021
I don’t know if it’s working but it’s connected to the mains and seems to be OK.
When the nurse rings me, she says her heart monitor has recorded 2000 occasions when her heartbeat slowed over the last three years, but 800 of them occurred over the last three months which means incidents of slow heartbeat are getting more frequent, unlike the heartbeat which is slowing down, and not just that the nurse says the longest pauses between heartbeats especially at night are up to four seconds but there was even one of seven seconds. You can wait a long time for a heartbeat.
Arrhythmia is a common problem with poets whose poems don’t scan so they write pros poems instead and call them poems even though they’re not poems but just blocks of text with their own curious rhythm some even create white spaces in the blocks of text to create pauses even quite long
pauses
Flat line here
Saturday March 23rd 2024. Ditchling, Sussex
Hilary Bourne (1909-2004) and Barbara Allen (1903-1972) lived, travelled, designed, made, studied and sold textiles as a couple from 1936 until Barbara’s tragic death in a fire in 1972.
How is it possible that the two women who designed and wove the textiles for the Royal Festival Hall (1951), the fabrics for the costumes for Ben Hur (1959), the upholstery for the newest glitzy jet planes ever to fly in the UK (c1952), who sold curtains at Heal’s and Liberty and ran a renowned, highly profitable London business together - in both their names - for nearly 40 years, have remained uncredited in the British history of Modernist Art and Design?
Is it because they are women in craft?
Towards the end of their lives they created the museum at Ditchling together in 1985.1
Text from the exhibition interpretation panels at Double Weave – Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles at the Ditchling Museum.