[ 00:30 thursday 17 january - piscita, isola di stromboli ] michael young left this life on monday night. the words are still incredible to me. writing them brings another spasm of grief upon me. michael was never particularly healthy and for twenty years had suffered from a macabre assortment of cancers. but always his [...]
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[ 22:00 sunday 7 january - rosevear , st agnes , isles of scilly ] since completing the previous chunk i’ve had supper (the remnant of seb’s excellent sugo from last week) , started making two loaves of pumpkin-seed bread and walked down to periglis to phone grandpa since today’s his ninety-fifth birthday (periglis is [...]
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[ 17:35 sunday 7 january - rosevear , st agnes , isles of scilly ] it’s three and a half weeks since i returned to soggy old britain , despatched the briefest of notes and promised to write more in “a day or two” . with every day that passes i find myself with more [...]
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07:58 saturday 12 february – steamship company office , hugh town quay , st mary’s i sit here keeping out of the way of the frenetic ballet of forklifts on the quay outside . the gry came in yesterday afternoon with a full load . as i walked round to keith’s yard at porthmellon one [...]
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13:53 friday 11 february – rosevear , st agnes my belongings went aboard the launch at one o’clock . the sea and wind have subsided but are expected to rise again this evening . the day is stolen from spring , doors and windows standing open in the sunlight , the birdsong , the gentle [...]
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11:51 thursday 10 february – rosevear , st agnes still here ! the steamship company phoned at two yesterday afternoon to say that the launch would be coming at quarter past three . so i leapt on my bike and cycled off in search of johann . not in tamarisk , not at work rebuilding [...]
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10:30 wednesday 9 february – rosevear , st agnes at this point i should be standing on the quay watching the lyonesse lady arrive , ready to winch my belongings aboard . instead i’m sitting in the house with everything piled around me . i awoke to a beautiful sunny morning , the thrushes singing [...]
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10:55 tuesday 8 february – rosevear , st agnes i sit in my studio amidst half-packed boxes and scattered papers . sunlight cuts low through the windows and i can feel its heat on the back of my hands as i type . my belongings are booked on the launch to st mary’s at half [...]
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05:37 friday 21 january 2000 – rosevear , st agnes i’ve just cycled back from wingletang where i’ve been watching the lunar eclipse . i feel like sleeping now so i’ll write later . 02:10 saturday later , as usual , turns out to be quite a lot later ! i’ve just put together a [...]
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00:32 saturday 15 january – rosevear , st agnes i’ve just arrived back , a little mud-spattered , from cycling round the island under a moon torn by stormy clouds . no lights . a couple of brief squalls lashed me with icy rain . yesterday there was hail . these weeks have been filled [...]
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