Storytime for Kidney Care
Kidney Care UK needs support. Urgently. Like all UK charities, demand for their services is growing at exactly the same time their income is dropping.
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Calling all free Frenchmen (and women)
Paris has to be one of the most enthralling, and yet somehow enervating places on earth. Every single step for Parisians drains them of life as they complain about life itself.
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The funeral home’s jingle
On a personal level, the absurd brings moments of light relief amidst the gnawing frustration and deep desire to escape
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The changing light of the sea
There he was swirling on the patio, filtered by the syrupy light of the last evening sun. Love him as I do, but seeing him, there was the most jarring effect.
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She who roams by the cemetery
I don’t know whether the woman who roams by the cemetery is Romany, but she is very much lost.
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Entertainment corner
Here are some of the enjoyable or recommended films and programmes I’ve watched throughout the lockdown.
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Good as Gold
He repeatedly gurgled, ‘Marieme, Marieme.’ And something about accara fritters and sosu kaani sauce.
The tall avenues of nothing
I watch the scene at the top of the tall avenues: there’s nothing. Barcelona is a city of fiestas and insofar as it’s a city of siestas, the difference now is that the sleep people fall into is morose, immoderate.
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The purples of Ronda
We discuss whether or not to distance ourselves from other tourists, without having the language to validate what in other times, would be labelled a prejudice.
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With a bit of perspective
Nothing seemed especially different that day, except perhaps the dissonance between the honeyed glow of the sun in people’s smiling faces and the intuition none of us could afford to be complacent.
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