Apr
07
I’ve never been on a demo before, but I felt angry enough about this to attend, so went to my local council’s anti-cuts protest. And I will not engage in a political or economic argument here about the nature of the cuts and how to govern the country, as neither I, nor the people at …
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Mar
31
I love my bourgeois basil plant. And am rightly ashamed. How did this happen? When I was young, I wanted to be a doctor (this was before my astronaut phase) and believed that it was perfectly possible, if not desirable, to live out of a tent and bucket, and scoffed when my Mum insisted on …
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Mar
14
It is impossible to write silence well. Obviously, there are the absence of words, the complete failure to respond to a thing, but that also doesn’t seem to really cover it. The irony of much of life is that some things need to be said, and yet language hasn’t yet mustered an appropriate way to …
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Mar
02
This will be, to everyone’s relief, a photoless entry. So, in the evenings I work a follow spot. Follow spotting is one of those things where you really have to concentrate on what you’re looking at. There’s just no getting round it – if the command is to track that chipmunk, then that chipmunk gets …
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Feb
27
I originally thought that epidemiology had something to do with the skin. Epidermis? But no, dermatology, duh… and there’s my knowledge of Latin fully exhausted. It turns out to be the study of how disease is transmitted in large population groups – epidemics, innit! - and therefore not really something I’d talk about much in …
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Feb
19
I finally saw this as an actual audience member, from an actual seat in the actual auditorium… http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/62808/productions/frankenstein.html … and it was genuinely stonking. Very, very rare that I find myself finding it hard to breathe in theatre. Very, very, very rare that I feel my own heart racing. Absolutely brilliant. Go see!
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Feb
18
So, about five minutes after I find myself fuming with rage at general government cuts, I also find myself involved in a project which deals very specifically with one section of government cuts – the arts. I’m lighting designer on a series of short plays being performed at the Southwark Playhouse Vaults in mid-March, and …
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Feb
17
So, as established, I’m not exactly politics woman; I’m not an economist (despite the three years of LSE… history, people, history rocks!) and I’m not a member of a political party. My ideology, if we can call what I have such a thing, is probably leftish liberal. But again, to say that I have an …
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Jan
25
For anyone who’s been following this blog at all, you’ll find in previous entries a meditation on just how terrified I am of giving blood. And therefore, as something of a narrative closure to that particular entry, let me take this opportunity to say that right here, right now, I feel insufferably smug. Which is …
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Jan
18
I dearly wish I had a better picture than this to show you: I saw it in a bank, naturally enough, and asked permission to take a photo. It was on public display at the time, so I guess was doing a sort of public information service anyhow – it just tickled some part inside …
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