Veni Veni
Just back from Holy Island. What a fantastic course this year. After everything that has happened to me this year – not least my...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Amma
I went to see Amma last night. After a relentless few weeks of filming, teaching, studenting, I really wanted to curl up under the duvet...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
A Professor of EU Law on Brexit
Just in case you don’t have 20 minutes to listen to Prof. Dougan’s talk here are the main points (and yes, Dougan is the Jean Monnet...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
thai fungi & quantum physics of poetry appreciation
Preparing lunch for Rachel I was suddenly struck by the infinitesimal beauty of mushrooms. Which I then had to photograph all over the...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
Kay Ryan #1: Stumbling down the mountain into ink again
Imagine a train-track figure made of sliver over sliver of between-car vision, each slice too brief to add detail or deepen: that...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
I love Stravinsky. I love Auden (in patches). I love the theatre of Robert LePage and I love the music of Tom Adès, and indeed Tom Adès...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Kitchen Talk
Treena arguing with Dominic, who’s just said that being gay is perhaps not normal: “Being normal is what men have created in order to not...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
BEATUS BENIDORM
BEATUS BENIDORM Went walking in the mountains above Alicante with Simon over Easter. Acres of almond blossom. Good sinew-hardening...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
her bonnet is the firmament / the universe – her shoe / the stars – the trinkets at her
Had Mum and Dad up to stay and we all went to see In The Shadow of the Moon this afternoon. About 5 weeks ago when we were travelling in...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
found in a spring clean: birdbrain
This must have been during the first summer of filming on series One of ‘Cash in the Attic’. It was a magical shoot with a wonderful team...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20197 min read
“today it’s a pleasure to be alive”: adventures with the king of the hill
I’ve been up in Cumbria at the same time as the terrible Bird killings, but happily I was more safely engaged filming for Escape. We were...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
“Unpopular, ambiguous and dangerous, it is a voyage of discovery to the other pole of the worl
This trip to Brazil was significant on a number of scores. It was the first time that we had run a session on the completed Land: an old...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
the best volunteer organization i've ever worked for
It’s not really ‘done’ to talk about your work as a Samaritan but that has the unfortunate side-effect of scaring off potential...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
if you are Learn'd, Be not as common Fooles if you are not Let them have cushions by you
Finally, I saw something at the theatre that I really liked. Something that was actually theatre rather than just a nicey-nicey radioplay...
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