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Red Roses
This week has seen the publication of a book I have been working on, with Verity Holloway and Boudicca Press, for nearly two years. Disturbing the Body is an anthology of women’s writing about their bodies – of times when […]
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Deconstructing the body
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Reconstructing sea creatures
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Exoskeleton
I have long thought I fared better under water than I do on land. I have used this blog in part to explore my connection with the sea. I hadn’t considered why these things might be, beyond a potentially deeply […]
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Altitude sickness
Seaweed, trees, rivers, veins. Skeletal structures, views from above, all spread outwards, thinning and succumbing to the foundations that support them. Rivers follow fluctuations in the ground, geological underpinnings and fractures. Mine are stunted, it seems. Something stems the flow, […]
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Tidal reclamation
A giant etch-a-sketch, the beach is a perfect place for play. Everything will wash away and leave a new surface. I wrote “The tide will take me” in wet sand with a piece of dried cuttlefish and it began to […]
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Drawings in chalk
Landscape drawings cut into the ground expose the bedrock beneath. Here, in East Sussex, it is chalk. As with the sculptural forms of the cliffs just down the road, the brightness of the white and the contrast of the green […]
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Edges
I continue to walk to the sea and stare. I was reminded last week how many of us are drawn to the edge. The precarious cliff face proved just too tempting for some as they stood at the top of […]
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Tiny Oceans
There has been a pause in posting here. In part due to a fluctuation in energy levels and health, and in part a result of pursuing my writing practice and developing my notebook on my website. In October I began, […]
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The moon
At the end of July there was a full moon. There will be another at the end of this month. Checking my diary it’s a full moon tomorrow, a full 28 days have passed. July’s full moon was to be […]
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Shoresearch Survey
Sussex Wildlife Trust is one of the organisations to routinely survey the beaches along the coast of Sussex. Involving volunteers, it makes for a great afternoon of legitimately staring into rockpools. Looking with a guide and with a clipboard to […]
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One year on
One year from starting this blog and I have been nudged into remembering events which led to it. Three years ago I was diving in Spanish waters, swimming with eagle rays and spotting seahorses. Three years ago I found a […]