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Art: Sam Jevon, In Colour And In Black and White
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Drabble: Small Pond Life
Some of the fish got cut off, marooned in the small pond
Art: A split-second with TikTok
It was a blink of several young people pulling up veg in a farmer's field
Diary: 4-10 August
Thankfully, Hotel Chocolat on Cannon Street was open to buy some emergency chocolates
Artwork Archive: Earthslice
It was meant to be suggestive of the geological diagrams we'd sketch in our school exercise books
Snapshot: The Pond, Winnall Moors, Winchester
The spectacle that greets you will live in the memory for a lifetime
Flashback: The socialite and the spy writer’s mother
Her husband ran off with Mrs Eve Fleming, mother of the James Bond author Ian Fleming
Video: Winnall Moors, Winchester
A chance encounter with Chris Packham or Clare Balding wouldn't be a wild surprise
Word Wall: Nick Cave’s Into My Arms
My diaries often contain incidental thoughts or things that flit in and out of my mind
Drabble: Lulu
She was convinced Lulu died because she lived on a diet of cheese and chocolate
Drabble: Things Can Only Get Bitter
In the middle of the night, guilt arrives with its haunting visage
Diary: 1-3 August
One of the huge terrapins was even out on a rock, sunbathing
Artwork Archive: Razz Girls
The three women have fallen into a sort of driving rugby maul
Art: Population in pictures
The two images are strikingly similar and yet very different
Video: Barbican Conservatory
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In pictures: Barbican Conservatory
Lost in its wild vegetation and pondlife, you can easily dream of a better world
Rant: Second spike will puncture presumptions
Sympathy of poorly performing politicians is running out
Diary: July 2020
Includes: Gothic horror, a slip-up with the Nuclear Trigger, and a drunken duck on the loose
Diary: 29-31 July
Discarded face masks and rubber gloves will be neatly preserved as fossils in the geological record
Drabble: Dog-collared
It was the smell… the mothball stench of the clergy that got to him
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