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March Magnolias

March 31, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘March, the month when magnolias rule our world’ wrote Thomas Pakenham in The Company of Trees, a gift last December that inspired me to test his opinion.

Our local 5 km pandemic travel radius is coast-cropped. We only had access to 37 km2 for exercising and magnolia hunting. I stopped counting after finding over 80 specimens in 26 days of peering into suburban gardens.

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Filed Under: Chapbooks Tagged With: chapbook, issued, photography, thomas pakenham

March Movies

March 30, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

March has been a month of many memorable things including three movies. You may dismiss the idea that an octopus could be dreaming of electric sheep but you shouldn’t ignore these three utterly different expositions of the cinematographic arts.

Horses with wings might fly me back to Paris one day soon.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, cannes film festival, jérémy clapin, little moon animation, movies, netflix, peter debruge

Offsetting and Printing

March 29, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I used to print photos as scarves on fabric but guess what? The supply of sustainable fabrics such as lyocell became erratic even before the pandemic. My small start-up business faltered and was suspended when the last two week turnaround took order almost two months to fulfil.

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  • Bathroom Tableau
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, bracket books ireland, carbon emissions, fabhappy, nasa

Ants

March 28, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard of Robert Gregg of Colorado? He’s connected to the eighth wonder of the world, in St Petersburg, in my mind at least.

Gregg died in 1991, famous among ant lovers for having written the seminal book The Ants of Colorado published in 1963. He identified and was allowed name many ant species in Colorado during his decades of searching them out.

Goldfinches waiting in the rain and sunshine ahead of a rainbow.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: amber, ants, booklink, photography, rainbow, robert gregg, travel

Breathing Free

March 27, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The grim news is that tuberculosis cases are up 25% in the first year of pandemic. This was predicted by people who could see how dangerous the diversion of resources to Covid-19 would be.

It was so obvious that I mentioned the risk of a rise in TB in a May journal last year. ‘The curse of tuberculosis is that it’s thought to be a disease of the poor’ I wrote.

Two years ago today when Brexit was a significant issue in my world.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, Covid-19, hilaire belloc, medecins sans frontieres, pandemic, photo, tuberculosis, wikipedia, world tb day

Why Did Mary Robison Ever?

March 26, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Yesterday was the last day of my month of magnolias. Lucky that because today, the gusts, hail and sleet are doing their best to knock the tepals to the ground. So I spent the day indoors, desk bound while preparing the next chapbook.

And then I finished reading Mary Robison’sWhy Did I Ever? I don’t read much fiction but if I did, I’d want it to be as refreshing as this. It was an experience rather than a story. I engaged with it from page one, became immersed and was held in thrall to the last page.

Yes, the weather has changed.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, mary robison, photos, photozines

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