What's been capturing your stray attention?
✎ A subscriber thread
Hello,
This week went by in a blur. I went to Brighton for a festival event, and took a little extra time to see a good old friend (I wrote about it in a guest post here). The next evening, I caught a brilliant
salon event, including a great talk from Annebella Pollen about the development of nudism in the UK. This is exactly the kind of thing I like to do when I get a rare moment to myself.After a recommendation on the-week-before-last’s essays thread, I’ve just started reading Happily by Sabrina Orah Mark, which is just so, so good: smart, surreal, heartfelt. And I’ve been re-watching Futurama with Bert. I still love it, after all these years. I sometimes think I’m Leila, sometimes more like Bender the robot.
You’ll be pleased to know that I also interviewed Catherine Coldstream all over again, and you’ll be getting the result as a podcast very soon. It made me really, really miss recording my podcast.
So that me! What’s been capturing your stray attention lately? I’m excited to hear your cultural picks and wild passtimes!
Katherine x
P.S. I am still waiting to be flooded with your haiku after today’s post. Go on, give it a go…
P.P.S. I’m appearing at Backstory Bookshop in Balham tomorrow night, and at the British Library’s Food Season on Saturday 26th.
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while i lie reading
post apocalyptic books
the tulips open
(both stray attention AND a haiku ;) i loved loved loved your haiku post, Bashō is an old literary friend)
I’ve been collecting odds and ends when I can with a years long view to trying to do something artsy/craftsy, so I have all this STUFF but don’t do anything with it besides shuttle it from place to place. Well… this was the week. I pencilled in two hours on Tuesday and started teaching myself some hand stitching basics! I felt really good about that! That, such as it is, isn’t very ‘wild’, but I’m considering it a big breakthrough to the actual DO-ing.