Our cherry blossom emerged yesterday.
Status:
Definitely a rest day today with limited capacity for anything, online or off.
This morning we (by which I mean Fi) had three of the great-niece/nephs, M, G and R over as part of the Easter holiday occupation emergency which was a little daunting but it turns out school has got them quite accustomed to sitting around a table doing painting and shit, with occasional breaks to watch Trolls World Tour which G is obsessed with. I was kinda into it for a while as I knew Rachel Bloom voiced the main baddy and I always have time for La Kendrick, but then they started singing and I had to bail.
Oh, and then we had another visit from the puppy.
And then I had a nap.
Reading:
- Artist of the Month: Editoriat — Keep it under your hat but Editoriat is the name Fiona, my wife, does her art as, mixing collage, paint and print to interrogate the magazine publishing industry, amongst other things. This is a nice interview about her practice, ahead of a forthcoming exhibition. Proud of ya, hun!
- Birmingham focus group shows shift from Labour support — I won’t give this much weight but I do think a trick is being missed here by just reporting their opinions and beliefs as fait accompli. I’d love to see some kind of show where people’s understandable misconceptions are corrected and they develop a more accurate opinion. Or for the BBC to trawl their comment threads for subjects to do explainers about. And I should add I’d be delighted to have my notions subjected to interrogation by experts. I’m sure I’m wrong about stuff and would really benefit from some corrections. (From experts.)
Watching:
- Simone Giertz (14:43)
- Laura Kampf (16:05) — Felix!
- Elle Cordova (0:41)
Books on the go:
🎧 Finding Albion by Zakia Sewell [#######---] 82% (+7)
📖 Stone Junction by Jim Dodge [########--] 80%