Category: 2013
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The Severn Project at Temple Meads
The Severn Project is a Community Interest Company (07253111) founded by Steve Glover in April 2010 with the aim of creating a more effective and person centred model of drug and alcohol recovery. The Project is designed to bridge the gap between treatment and social reintegration though a process of education, training and employment. You […]
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10 identities that I am giving my daughter
We create our children in so many ways from the way we talk, act, behave with others, eat and every single thing we do. Sometimes the responsibility of it all weighs me down but usually it helps me see how I get created as well. Watching it all is an amazing process. I didn’t even […]
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Cable knit cast on, YouTube brilliance
When I’m feeling poorly or just drained of energy (are these the same thing?) I indulge in mindless and repetitive behaviour. Sometimes these behaviours become passions and hobbies and other times they fade. I post this in the mid/end throes of a passion for knitting. And also of marathon Golden Girls-viewing on YouTube. I’ve been […]
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St Mary Redcliffe framed by Second Chances
There is a yellow frame planted by Second Chances in view of St Mary Redcliffe in Temple Quarter. Click through to read about how Second Chances is a theatrical guided tour and pop-up cinema experience, mixing the past, present and future of Temple Quarter.link. Here is the frame:
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The big city read along with the Universe Versus Alex Woods
I picked up a free book at the library this afternoon and I don’t need to return it because it’s part of a Big City Read sponsored by publishers Hodder and Stoughton, the Reading Agency, Bristol City and Somerset Council’s library services and local bookshops. This is a giveaway with one thousand copies of Gavin […]
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Mayfest, May 16 to 26
Here’s one of my favourite things to do with Mayfest shows: pretend that they apply to people from various parts of Bristol. For example, while walking down East Street the other week I wondered how the people walking through there would react to Hook, Skip, Repeat: being invited to use brightly coloured rope and a […]
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The Ethicurean cookbook
Cookbooks are the one print media that I can’t imagine disappearing into a collection of electronic means. One look and touch of the Ethicurean cookbook reaffirms my belief that you need solid pictures, bigger than the screen of your phone or e-reader, to see beautiful creations come alive just ingredients away. You also need the […]
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Interview with folk singer Roy Harper
Tickets went on sale last week for folk singer Roy Harper playing Colston Hall on 27 October 2013. Here’s a link to an interview which Sam Saunders from Whisperinandhollerin did with him in 2011. He talks about music, women and death. As you do. Roy Harper: “Well, playing with others has been sometimes inspirational and […]
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Grillstock, Some pictures
We went to Grillstock on Saturday and left it a little too late. The tasting table was being packed away, the chili eating contest had finished and people were more merry than social. We still had a nice time wandering around. Some photos.
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Lovely afternoon tea pop-up at 40 Alfred Place
I don’t think George Orwell was talking about the afternoon tea on May 19 in Bristol when he said the following but you never know: “If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few […]
Ephemeral digest 