#marble in Bournemouth

[marble-and-granite]

How to Maintain Granite Benchtops in Christchurch Homes

Granite benchtops add style and durability to Christchurch homes, while proper care ensures they remain stunning. To maintain granite, clean daily with mild soap and warm water, avoiding harsh chemicals. For deeper cleaning, use a stone-specific cleaner. Protect your worktops in Poole, Dorset, by using trivets under hot pots and wiping up spills quickly to prevent stains. Regular sealing is essential, especially for marble in Bournemouth, which is softer and requires pH-neutral cleaners. By following these tips, you can keep your granite and marble surfaces looking beautiful for years. For expert care, contact Marble & Granite Inspirations Ltd.

Originally Published at- https://sites.google.com/view/marble-and-granites/blogs/how-to-maintain-granite-benchtops-in-christchurch-homes 

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Medieval Grave Slabs Recovered From Historic Shipwreck

Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University have recovered two medieval graves slabs which have been lying at the bottom of Studland Bay for nearly 800 years.

The slabs, carved from Purbeck marble, were amongst the cargo of England’s oldest historic shipwreck, which sank off the Dorset coast during the reign of Henry III in the thirteenth century.

The site has been named the “Mortar Wreck” because other items in its cargo included a large number of grinding mortars, also made from Purbeck stone. Details of the discovery will shortly be published in the journal Antiquity.

Divers and archaeologists led by BU brought the slabs to the surface on 4 June in a two hour operation from a depth of around seven metres where the stones lay.

One immaculately preserved slab measures one and a half metres and weighs an estimated 70 kilogrammes. The other, much larger slab is in two pieces, with a combined length of two metres and a weight of around 200 kilogrammes.

Both have carvings of Christian crosses which were popular in the thirteenth century and the research team believe they were intended to be coffin lids or crypt monuments for high status individuals in the clergy.

“The wreck went down in the height of the Purbeck stone industry and the grave slabs we have here were a very popular monument for bishops and archbishops across all the cathedrals and monasteries in England at the time,” explained Tom Cousins, a Maritime Archaeologist at Bournemouth University who led the recovery. “Examples have been found in Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral, he added.”

The slabs will now be desalinated and conserved by the Bournemouth team until they can be put on public display along with the other recovered artefacts in the new Shipwreck Gallery when Poole Museum reopens next year.

The site of the Mortar Wreck was first discovered as an ‘obstruction’ in 1982 but was assumed to be a pile of rubble on the seabed. Its significance was not realised until 2019 when Tom and a team from the University dived the site on the suggestion of local charter skipper Trevor Small and uncovered the secrets lying under the sand.

The continued recovery of the artefacts, such as the mortars and grave slabs, will allow the Bournemouth team to learn more about thirteenth century life and the ancient craft of stonemasonry.

“Although Purbeck marble was quarried near Corfe Castle there has always been a debate about how much work was done here and how much was done in London. Now we know they were definitely carving them here, but they hadn’t been polished into the usual shiny finish at the time they sank so there is still more we can learn,” Tom said.

The team will continue to explore and protect the wreck over the coming years which they hope will include an operation to record the timber frames of the ships hull which are still well preserved in the sand. Tom is also planning to use this as a training opportunity for his students at the university.

“The future aim of the project is to train the next generation so that they get the same opportunities I had. We’ve already started teaching our second-year students to dive and as they get into the third year we’re going to take them out to sea and teach them their first steps to becoming maritime archaeologists,” he said.

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@protect-daniel-james ahh, just remembered I meant to try and do this the other day. If you haven’t jumped the paywall already here’s that adorable Andoni interview from The Times:

Andoni Iraola: Noir novels, beach football and life in top flight

An hour into our conversation, in his open manner, with his easy smile, Andoni Iraola says something I’ve never heard before. “I suffered more as a player than as a manager,” he admits. It’s startling. In my 28 years of interviewing football people, managers have only said the very opposite.

But Iraola is differently wired; a relaxed and road-less-travelled guy. He was the boy raised in a Basque hotbed of the game, whose family actually weren’t that into football; the young man who embarked on a law degree because he didn’t envisage a sporting career.

If he wasn’t a manager he reckons he would be running a bookshop. “I have read all of Murakami,” he tells me. Mike Bassett, he is not.

His wife and children aren’t football fans either; they don’t come to the stadium, watch games or talk football at home. “I open the door and sometimes they don’t even know who I’ve been playing against,” he grins. “For me, that is very valuable.”

His alternative ways are powering a revolution at Bournemouth, where he has instilled belief that a small team can play as high and intensely and boldly as any big one. Those qualities had Rayo Vallecano and Mirandés, the underdog Spanish sides he coached, reaching beyond their expected limits. His Rayo beat Barcelona and Real Madrid, his Mirandés reached the Spanish Cup semi-finals for only the second time in their near 100-year history.

Lack of fear is key to his rise. Iraola, 41, had it from his first (and successful) management posting, in Cyprus with AEK Larnaca. “You can only learn by making mistakes and I wasn’t afraid of them because I wasn’t clear coaching was my future,” he says. “My attitude was, ‘Let’s try — if it works, it works’. Things went from one adventure to another adventure, and here we are.”

His parents still work where they’ve always worked and where they met: in the offices of a company which sells marble in Usurbil, a town of 5,000 near San Sebastián. An only child who excelled at school, they encouraged his studies and he was three years into a law degree at university before giving up because he was starting every week for Athletic Bilbao in La Liga and his football schedule made it difficult enough to get to classes, let alone undertake the work placement in a legal practice his degree required.

It hadn’t dawned that he might be good enough for a playing career until he was 16 or 17. As a boy, he played on San Sebastián’s famous La Concha beach with Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso and then for the same youth club, Antiguoko. From kicking a ball on the sands as children, the three have grown up to be among the best young coaches in the world. How? Iraola shrugs. “I always say football-wise, when we were young, Mikel was the best, but overall none of us were great athletes and all of us had to use our understanding of the game to be successful, even as players,” he says.

We talk about what he learned from a playing career that encompassed more than 500 games for Athletic Bilbao, where he was their right back and captain, a year in midfield for New York City FC, and seven caps for Spain — hard won, in a period (2008-11) his country were world and European champions.

Even training with that squad (“nobody ever lost the ball!”) was an education in what the highest football standards look like. In New York, where the manager was Patrick Vieira, fresh from five years playing and coaching with Manchester City, he learned the concepts of positional play.

At Athletic he was exposed to some significant managers, including Marcelo Bielsa and Javier Clemente, but the biggest influence was Ernesto Valverde. “I had him at all the levels,” Iraola says. “When I went to Athletic Club at 16, he was my first coach. He was my coach in the second team and the guy who put me in the first team. Then at the end of my career, my coach when he came back from Barcelona.

“His style is the club’s style. Athletic Club is the most English team in La Liga. We like to attack fast, use the width of the pitch, overlaps, a lot of crosses, high press. And that is how I have learned to play.”

From long ago, he was drawn to England. He loved visiting for mini-breaks — London, Manchester or wherever there were good flights from Bilbao. He knew plenty about Bournemouth. “Eddie Howe visited when I was at Rayo and it was a club I had already studied for set pieces — they were pretty famous for those [under Howe], for their offensive routines,” he says. “But only after I arrived [in June] did I analyse the players, the area.”

Bournemouth made a bold decision to replace Gary O’Neil, a clearly talented upcoming manager, who performed wonders in salvaging their 2022-23 season and was popular with media and fans. The owner Bill Foley, chief executive Neill Blake and technical director Richard Hughes just believed the opportunity to hire Iraola — further along in his upward trajectory than O’Neil — was too big to pass up.

His brief? “The club was coming from a very successful two seasons,” he says. “First season, promoted. Second season, you keep your spot in the Premier League. Changing coaches wasn’t an easy decision to make. They were talking to me because of how we played in Rayo and wanted to implement the things we were doing in Bournemouth.

“I think those things are pretty clear. We like to play in a high rhythm, to be as vertical as we can whenever we recover the ball and try to play in the opposition half.

“The players, now with all the information [out there], already before I arrived knew my ideas. The culture is different [in England] and sometimes we’ve had to adapt to each other and it’s been a process. Training sessions, I take them myself. I always say I am more of a coach than a manager.”

After nine games, Bournemouth were second bottom and yet to win. With difficult opening fixtures he and the club expected a tricky start, but scrutiny was mounting. Iraola found himself topping that pernicious betting market — “next manager to be sacked”.

Did he have doubts? “A lot of times,” he says. “I always say intelligent people have doubts. Otherwise, you don’t make questions to yourself. There were moments I was watching the players and they were trying, they were doing all the things we were telling them [and still losing].

“I remember the game against Spurs [a 2-0 home defeat in August]. For me, we played really well and got them in difficult situations, but they had [James] Maddison, [Yves] Bissouma, [Destiny] Udogie, making amazing plays from very disadvantaged positions. And you say, ‘Woah, we’re doing what we want to do, we’re getting them into the places we want, and even then they’re finding ways to get out and counter’.

“It was the moment I said, ‘Oof, we have to be really clinical if we want to compete in this league’. But also, ‘This is why I am here’. Because you want to face the best coaches in the world, the best players in the world.”

Perhaps the lowest point was game 11: a 6-1 defeat away to Manchester City. Iraola changed from his standard 4-2-3-1 to 5-4-1 and learned a valuable lesson. “I didn’t like that game. Even in the first 30 minutes when we didn’t concede, we were very passive. Very low. It’s not the way we want to play.

“I talked to Pep [Guardiola] after the game and I should have played one midfielder doing the role of a defender. Because the message for the team was maybe not the correct thing. I thought we needed five in the last line to match the [attacking formation] City use, but I should have used a midfielder getting lower rather than a defender — the message would have seemed more positive to the players, even if we took the same positions.”

Bournemouth won the next match, against Howe’s Newcastle United, sparking a run that found them top of the Premier League form table, with 19 points from seven games, going into the new year. “I was lucky because the players kept pushing and believing and you could see that when it wasn’t working, it wasn’t because they weren’t giving their part,” he says. “That meant I had to improve on the tactical side. I’m thankful for the players.”

What did he do? “Fixed small details . . . sometimes at this level it’s just a question of changing a position two or three metres and things start to click.”

And the biggest difference? “I think we’ve changed not so much our style or our offensive volume, we’ve improved defensively. Especially when defending lower and defending crosses and set pieces. We’ve improved how we defend in our box, we’re better at defending one-on-one situations, at forcing the opposition onto their weaker side, blocking crosses, blocking shots, going to the second balls. It is work on the training ground on small basics that were costing us a lot.”

Two players have been crucial. Dominic Solanke and Ryan Christie — whose move from No 10 to a deeper position suddenly balanced the team. “I’m sure every coach who has had him loved Ryan because he understands not only his position, but what the team needs to do and, playing lower, he’s able to organise,” Iraola says. “He doesn’t look very strong, but wins the ball because he’s very good at reading situations.

“Dominic? He has all the qualities. He is unique as a No 9. He can play in a low block because he is fast enough for all the counters, and he can play in a very offensive team because he’s good enough in the box. And out of possession he’s the first one that gives the intensity to the press.”

Both fit Iraola’s philosophy that modern footballers have to be “complete”. “I think we demand nowadays everything from the players,” he says. “You can’t have a No 9, any more, who scores but doesn’t press, and even the keeper has to be complete.

“I have always loved gegenpressing [counterpressing] and the German coaches. The Bundesliga is where the idea players have to be complete started, because coaches were very demanding out of possession.”

Some of his principles are, indeed, very like Jürgen Klopp’s. Like an avowed preference for “chaos over organisation” and love of lightning attacking. “It’s a matter of how much do you want to risk the ball. I tell players whenever you recover it, your first look has to be not even to the No 9, but the ’keeper. Can you score?”

He seems to share Klopp’s worldview that football is the “most important of the least important things” and his ability to switch off from it belies the ferocious intellect and seriousness he brings when at work. A chat about statistics, for instance, shows how deeply and originally he thinks about things. “I like a lot of stats, but don’t show the players too much,” he says. “You should choose the three or four things that are most important to the game and remember sometimes they mislead you and that, always, every stat has a story behind it.

“xG [expected goals]? I use it but think it has to improve. Because it only takes into account the shots. Sometimes there is a big, massive chance, where you go against the ’keeper one-against-one, the ’keeper takes the ball from you and this is ‘xG zero’. So, for one game, it can be misleading. After 38 games, yes, normally it is a reflection, but you have to read more than the xG.”

In their 3-0 away defeat of Manchester United, Bournemouth covered more than 115km as a team. That’s quite a lot, I say. “Maybe too much! More important than the total distance are the expensive metres, the high-speed running,” Iraola says.

“They are expensive because not everybody is able to give you a lot and those metres are what make the difference. Sometimes you run a lot because you’re not seeing the ball and your total distance is high because you’re not playing well. Whereas normally, when you’re playing well, you’re having more high-speed metres than the opposition.”

When he came home from Old Trafford his wife, son (who is three) and daughter (who is eight) did expect a good mood. They know enough about football to know hammering United, as manager of Bournemouth, is a decent result.

“A few weeks before, we played in Manchester and lost 6-1 and the kids were thinking, ‘No, not another 6-1!’ so they were pleased,” he says. “Usually, they know our result, but not how it has gone and the question is, ‘You played well?’ and what they are really asking is, ‘Are you happy or not happy?’ ”

Their real interests are school, toys, games, Disney stuff. They’re normal kids. On days off, he likes nothing better than family trips exploring outdoor corners of Dorset. Like any Basque, he loves scenery and the sea.

Books? “I always liked to read. When you’re a player you have a lot of time travelling, and reading is good relaxation. Now I’m a manager, I’m reading less than ever. It’s impossible. I don’t have time.

“Normally, I read novels, noir novels. Detectives. I loved The Alienist by Caleb Carr when I was younger and the Kurt Wallander books are among my favourites. Many I read are Spanish, but the American writer, Don Winslow, is very good. Also, James Ellroy and Jo Nesbo.

“Noir novels are easy to read. They’re fast and you finish them quickly. I try to mix them with something more difficult. [Haruki] Murakami is not easy, but I love him — 700 pages and he’s talking about dreams . . . but I’ve been to Japan on holiday and I could understand him better.”

The return match with Spurs on Sunday is a good opportunity to gauge how far Bournemouth have come. Perhaps Ange Postecoglou is another of Iraola’s kinsmen. Like the Australian, he takes jobs without bringing assistants with him (they can’t protect you; you live and die by results anyway, is his take) and “as a football fan I love Tottenham’s style”.

Like Postecoglou he leads without ego and without that sense, which many managers project, of the job being burdensome. I ask about career plans and Iraola just smiles. “I don’t really know. I don’t like to do plans because it doesn’t make sense as a coach. You have a bad run, your situation changes so quickly.

“I think . . . I want to prove myself. ‘Let’s see if I’m able to do this’. But it’s more about challenging yourself than anything else. There might be a moment when I find I’m not good enough for this level. It can happen. And for sure it will happen one day. But until then, I want to see how far I can arrive.”

[amphtaminedreams]

June 2021->June 2023: Photo Dump No.22

DATE SAVED, L-R BY ROW:

1. 15th March 2023, 18th March 2023 [graphic source: instagram account @howtobehumanpod, background: Barbican, City of London, 17th November 2022], 9th February 2023, 2nd March 2023, 26th September 2022, 9th March 2023, 16th March 2023 [Fair Game, Canary Wharf], 21st September 2023, 18th October 2021 [Bella Hadid in Paris, September 2018, source: instagram account @crystalmethangel2]

2. 27th January 2023, 17th January 2023 [Vinegar Yard, London Bridge], 31st January 2023 [Russell Cotes Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth], 9th June 2021 [Lana Del Rey performing live @ Coachella, April 2014, source: instagram account @tulsa_lana_freak], 13th July 2022, 25th January 2022, 27th September 2021 [DSquared2 RTW F/W21], 14th November 2022 [Soulland RTW F/W22], 21st October 2022 [source: instagram accounts @fleurrrrrrrrr & @natalieenamaste]

3. 30th December 2021 [source: instagram account @posterjournal], 3rd April 2023 [Exhibition Road, South Kensington], 4th July 2022 [details @ Iris Van Herpen Haute Couture FW22], 11th January 2023, 22nd March 2023, 13th August 2021 [Lana Del Rey for Numero Tokyo magazine, March 2013 issue], 22nd March 2023, 20th March 2023 [St.Martin's Theatre, Seven Dials]

4. 19th September 2021 [Van Gagh Alive @ Kensington Gardens, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea], 1st February 2023 [source: instagram account @themayfairgroup], 17th May 2023 [Courtfield, Chelsea], 7th December 2022 [Liberty's of London, Soho], 19th December 2022, 23rd September 2021 [Miley Cyrus performing at the Midtown Music Festival, September 2021], 26th May 2023 [Bournemouth, Dorset], 1st December 2021 [Alexander McQueen RTW S/S19], 8th May 2023

5. 15th November 2022, 9th February 2022, 10th October 2022 [source: instagram account @kiracyan.design], 1st October 2021 [Zuhair Murad, Haute Couture S/S17], 6th July 2021 [Britney Spears photographed by David LaChapelle, 2000], 15th February 2022 [Frameless @ Marble Arch, Marylebone], 16th February 2022, 28th November 2022, 17th February 2022

6. 7th June 2023 [Queenhithe, City of London], 14th January 2022 [Versace RTW F/W19], 8th December 2022 [Twisted Museum, Oxford Street], 11th July 2021 [Britney Spears photographed in L.A, August 2009], ]5th December 2022 [CND for the Blonds S/S15], 22nd March 2023, 28th November 2021 [Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea], 5th June 2023, 29th December 2021 [Giant gallery, Bournemouth]

7. 7th December 2022 [Holborn, West End], 1st December 2021 [Versace RTW F/W19], 4th October 2022 [Bermondsey Street, Southwark], 1st June 2023 [Earl's Court, Kensington], 14th July 2021 [Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in The Suicide Squad, released July 2021, dir. James Gunn], 21st August 2021 [source unknown], 2nd May 2023, 21st March 2023 [Beyond the Streets Exhibition @ the Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea], 30th March 2023 [Christchurch, Dorset]

8. 18th June 2023 [Southbourne, Bournemouth], 21st June 2023, 19th June 2023 [Christchurch, Dorset], 11th November 2021 [Miley Cyrus via Instagram, wearing Gucci x Balenciaga for the November 2021 LACMA gala], 14th May 2023, 21st July 2021 [Marina Diamandis BTS on the set of the "Primadonna" music video, released March 2012], 8th April 2022 [graphic: @oshthoughts on lnstagram], 14th July 2021 [Bimini Bon Boulash via Instagram, July 2021], 21st March 2023

9. 13th June 2023 [Belem, Lisbon], 16th September 2022 [Et Ochs RTW S/S23], 12th June 2023 [Villa Berta, Lisbon], 15th November 2022], 9th April 2023, 10th July 2021 [source unknown], 30th September 2022 [source: Etsy store ConceptsDigital], 15th February 2023 [Frameless, Marylebone], 11th June 2023 [Jardim das Amoreiras, Lisbon]

10. 17th April 2023 [Bournemouth Town Centre, Dorset], 2nd May 2023, 4th May 2022 [Earl's Court, Kensington], 9th April 2023, 15th September 2021 [Miu Miu Resort 2021], 8th September 2021 [Dilara Fındıkoğlu, Resort 2022], 12th November 2022, 6th May 2023 [source: instagram account @howtobehumanpod], 17th October 2021 [Monse Resort 2022]

[pinkrabbitsbythenational]

upcoming UK protests I am aware of:

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - Saturday 21st October. 1PM at the Primark on High Street.

BOURNEMOUTH, ENGLAND - Saturday 21st October, 2PM at Bournemouth Square.

LONDON, ENGLAND - Saturday 21st October. 12PM at the Marble Arch

LUTON, ENGLAND - Friday 20th October. 4PM at the Town Hall.

Israel has cut water, electricity and food to Palestinians in Gaza. They are buying 10.000 M16 rifles and plan to distribute to civilian settlers in the West Bank to hunt down Palestinians. They're bombing the only way out of Gaza through Egypt, after telling refugees to flee through it, and have threatened the Egyptian government in case they let aid trucks pass through. Entire families, generations, are being wiped out and left to wander the streets hoping they don't get bombed.

Palestinians are using their last minutes of battery to let the world know about their genocide and are being met with a wall of "What about Hamas? What about the beheaded babies? Killing children on either side is bad!" even though the propaganda claims have been debunked over and over again. How cruel is it to ask somebody to condemn themselves before their last words? Or before grieving the loss of their entire families? When there's no such disclaimer to Israelis even though their government has shown over and over genocidal intent? Like who are you even trying to appease? What will your wishy washy statement do against decades of zionist thought infiltrating evangelical and Jewish stablishmemts?

Take action. Israel will fall back if public opinion turns its tide. The UK fell back on its bloody decision to cut aid to Palestine under public scrutiny. The USAmerican empire spends $3.8 billion dollars annually solely on this proxy war while its people suffer under a progressively military regime as well. News outlets are canceling last minute on Palestinian speakers while letting Israelis tell lies unchecked. Palestinian refugees are being targeted in ICE establishments and mosques are already being hounded by the FBI. Europe, Canada and the US have banned pro-Palestine protests but people are still resisting. You have the chance to stop this from turning into repeat of the Iraq war.

I want to do something but there's hardly anything for me to do from Brasil besides spreading the word and not letting these testimonies fall on deaf ears. I'm asking you to do this same ant work from wherever you are.

Follow:

Eye On Palestine (instagram / twitter)

Mohammed El-Kurd (instagram / twitter)

Decolonize Palestine (website with a chronological explanation of the occupation and debunking myths)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Plestia Alaqad (directly from Gaza. Many of her videos are interrupted by bombs)

If there's a protest in your city, please attend. Here's an international calendar of events:

Friday, October 13

ALBUQUERQUE, NM (US) – Fri Oct. 13, 3 pm, UNM Bookstore, University of New Mexico. Organized by Southwest Coalition for Palestine.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (US) – Fri Oct 13, 6 pm, Sproul Hall (Vigil), University of California Berkeley. Organized by Bears for Palestine.

DOUAIS, FRANCE – Fri Oct 13, 6:30 pm, Place de’Armes.

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN – Fri Oct 13, 5:30 pm, Brunnsparken. Organized by Palestinska samordningsgruppen Gothenburg.

GREENSBORO, NC (US) – Fri Oct. 13, 4 pm, Wendover Village, 4203 W Wendover Ave, Greensboro, NC. Organized by Muslims for a Better NC.

LONDON, ENGLAND – Fri Oct 13, 5 pm, Keir Starmer’s Office, Crowndale Center, 218 Eversholt St, London. Organized by IJAN UK.

MEANJIN/BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA – Fri Oct 13, 6 pm, King George Square.

MIAMI, FL (US) – Fri Oct 13, 4:30 pm, Bayfront Park. Organized by Troika Kollectiv.

NAPOLI, ITALY – Fri Oct 13, 4:30 pm, Piazza Garibaldi, Napoli. Organized by GPI and Centro Culturale Handala Ali.

NGUNNAWAL/CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – Fri Oct 13, 5:30 pm, Carema Place.

PERTH/BOORLOO, AUSTRALIA – Fri Oct. 13, 5:30 pm, Murray Street Hall, Boorloo/Perth. Organized by Friends of Palestine WA.

PORTLAND, OREGON (US) – Fri Oct 13, 3 pm, 1200-1220 SW 5th Ave, Portland.

PORT RICHEY, FL (US) – Fri Oct 13, 7:30 am, Route 19 and Ridge Road, Port Richey. Sponsored by: Florida Peace Action Network; Partners for Palestine; CADSI

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – Friday, Oct. 13, 7 pm, UP Main Campus, DSA Building opposite Thuto. Organized by PSC UP.

WITSWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY (SOUTH AFRICA) – Fri Oct 13, 1 pm, Great Hall Piazza, Flag demonstration. Organized by Wits PSC.

Saturday, October 14

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND – Sat, Oct. 14, 2 pm, St. Nichlas Square. Organized by Scottish PSC.

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Sat Oct 14, 2 pm, Aotea Square, Queens St, 291-2997 Queen St. Organized by PSN Aotearoa.

DETROIT/DEARBORN, MICHIGAN (US) – Sat Oct 14, 2 pm, Ford Woods Park, 5700 Greenfield Road. Organized by SAFE, PYM, SJP, Handala Coalition, more.

DUNDEE, SCOTLAND – Sat, Oct. 14, 2 pm, Place TBA. Organized by Scottish PSC.

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – Sat, Oct 14, 2 pm, Princes Street at Foot of the Mound. Organized by Scottish PSC.

FRANKFURT, GERMANY – Sat Oct 14, 3 pm Hauptwache, Frankfurt am Main. Sponsored by Palestina eV, Migrantifa Rhein-Main and more.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Sat. Oct 14, 2 pm, Buchanan Steps. Organized by Scottish PSC.

HOUSTON, TEXAS (US) – Sat Oct 14, 2 pm, City Hall, 901 Bagby St. Organizd by PYM, PAC, USPCN, SJP and more.

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – Sat Oc 14, 12 pm, Church St. Organized by FRFI.

LONDON, ENGLAND – Sat Oct 14, 12 pm, BBC Portland Place, London. Organized by a broad coalition.

MILANO, ITALY – Sat. Oct 14, 3:30 pm, Piazza San Babila. Organized by Young Palestinians of Italy, UDAP, Palestinian Community, Association of Palestinians.

ORLANDO, FLORIDA – Sat Oct 14, 3 pm, Lake Eola at Robinson and Eola, Orland. Organized by Florida Palestine Network.

TORINO, ITALY – Sat. Oct. 14, 3 pm, Piazza Crispi. Organized by Progetto Palestina.

VALPARAISO, CHILE – Sat Oct 14, 6 pm, Plaza Victoria, Valparaiso. Organized by Comite Chileno de Solidaridad con Palestina.

WASHINGTON, DC (US) – Sat Oct 14, 1 pm, Lafayette Square. Organized by AMP.

Sunday, October 15

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Sun Oct 15, 2 pm, March from Dam Square to Jonas Daniel Meijer plein.

NAARM/MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Sun Oct 15, State Library Victoria.

TARDANYA/ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA – Sun Oct 15, 2 pm, Parliament House.

AUSTIN, TEXAS (US) – Sun Oct 15, 3 pm, Texas Capitol. Organized by PSC ATX.

GADIGAL/SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Sun Oct 15, 1 pm, Sydney Town Hall.

SANTIAGO, CHILE -Sun Oct 15, 11 am, Plaza Dignidad, Santiago. Organized by Comite Chileno de Solidaridad con Palestina.

[thetileladyuk]

Old postcards are a great resource for discovering how buildings looked in the past. This morning I received a card showing the Regent Theatre in Westover Road, Bournemouth in its heyday, fully illuminated and offering a dazzling array of attractions.

The theatre was built in 1929, one of the last of the neo-classical movie palaces. It was designed to come into its own at night and the image certainly confirms this. The facade is made of Burmantoft's 'Marmo' Faience - a ceramic with a pale matte glaze intended to give a similar effect to marble.

These days the building is rather sad and awaits the inevitable conversion into flats. The plan is to retain the facades on Westover Road and the back on Hinton Road, so hopefully all will not be lost.

[logopops]

Burton, Long Eaton, Nottingham

Logo date 1990s-2002, the same time as the purchase of Arcadia by Sir Philip Green

Location High Street, Long Eaton

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Quite a shock for it to be 2020 and to see this logo still going stro... actually ‘strong’ seems a bit much, let’s leave it at going. It’s also a difficult one to date correctly. I’ve done a trawl online of various image and stock picture libraries and the earliest instances I can find of a Burton store bearing this logo is from these two photos from Bournemouth in 1995 (pic 1, pic 2 - complete with a missing ‘T’!). I have a feeling it dates a few years prior to 1995 though.

There were a lot of variations in Burton’s store branding in the latter half of the 20C*. Logopedia is lacking on detail when it comes to the dates and appears to be completely missing the royal blue logo that by my research immediately predates the burgundy one, as pictured here above the Croydon branch in 1989.

Given a swathe of Arcadia branch closures in recent years, the survival of this Burton store in the fairly small town centre of Long Eaton is very intriguing. It’s one of the few branches still in an original Burton building and with other Arcadia brands including Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge and Wallis as concessions in the nearby Tesco Extra store since 2017, (an easy three minute walk from the main High Street), it’s a miracle this has clung on. Dorothy Perkins closed their Long Eaton store at the other end of the High Street as a result of the move to Tesco... and it left us with this lovely shadow of its former 1980s logo, still visible on the unfilled unit today.

The excellent @laidbymonty on Twitter helps catalog the original Burton buildings still surviving up and down the country, and once you recognise the architecture you will begin to see them everywhere. As much as this building looks like its seen better days, I love that the branded iron grates remain. It also has a whopping five foundation stones, all laid by different members of the Burton family, including Lady Montague Burton, which is a real rarity.

On a personal level, a similar storefront at the Burton branch in my hometown of Stamford, Lincolnshire also retained its burgundy logo well past the 2002 rebrand. Even more intriguingly, it was one of their 2-in-1 branches with a Dorothy Perkins, which was given updated signage in the mid-00s when we waved goodbye to my favourite iteration of their logo, which had a flower as the dot in the ‘i’. The Burton side retained its retro branding almost up until the store’s closure in around 2010. 

Despite the fallout of Covid-19 and the quite prominent ‘To Let’ sign on the front on this Long Eaton store, the branch is listed as open on the Burton website in July 2020.

Photos via @JosephBegley

*in fact, this almost a double logopops spot, as the markings of some long gone serif 'BURTON' signage are clearly still visible on the marble above the current signage!

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Week 4 - Day Four

Mayfair Project

30 March 2017

Photoshop elevation of the Master Bathroom for the Mayfair project

(Before & After)

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 Los Angeles, CA -- Black Marble, the project of Chris Stewart, will be releasing his new album Fast Idol on October 22 via Sacred Bones Records. This week, he shared new single “Somewhere,” a bouncy track that embodies Black Marble’s iconic sound. From the hop of the synths to the darkwave base, “Somewhere” has a bright danciness to it that is upbeat and hopeful. There’s a timelessness to Black Marble’s music, suspending listeners in his sonic world. 

On the new track, Chris Stewart shares:

“‘Somewhere’ describes a place just out of reach that serves as a diversion and takes focus away from the ambiguities of daily life.  It represents a place of disinhibition where if it could only be remembered, or found, the people we aim to be could for a moment be fully realized.  Although its dreamlike clarity and feeling of connection may seem like an empty promise, it serves as an aspirational reminder for what might be.”

Tour Dates:

10/23 - Bournemouth, ENG - Anvil 10/24 - Cardiff, WAL - Club Ifor Bach 10/25 - Milton Keynes, ENG - Craufurd Arms 10/26 - Hull, ENG - The Adelphi 10/27 - Edinburgh, SCT - Mash House 10/28-  Glasgow, SCT - Stereo 10/29-  Dundee, SCT - Hunter S Thompson 10/31 - Newcastle, ENG - Anarchy Brewing Company 11/01 - Chester, ENG - Live Rooms 11/02 - Oxford, ENG - O2 Academy 11/03 - St. Albans, ENG - The Horn 11/05 - Bath, ENG - Moles 11/06 - London, ENG - Moth Club 11/07 - Hebden Bridge, ENG - Trades Club 11/08 - Blackpool, ENG - Bootleg Social 11/09 - Liverpool, ENG - EBGB's 11/06 - London, UK - Moth Club 11/12 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Tickets 11/14 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Tickets 11/13 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts - Tickets 11/16 - Denver, CO - HQ. - Tickets 11/18 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall - Tickets 11/19 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater - Tickets

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26/06/2020-Portland Bill and Lodmoor: Once more, pictures I took in this photoset separate to the ones I’ve just tweeted 

In the last of our week days off the what I felt has been a golden line up of day trips that I’ve looked forward to the past few weeks was completed by our furthest trip of the week to the wonderful Portland for the first time for us since 1st January for bird year list building. As we parked up at the bill there an ambition of today which we didn’t achieve yesterday at Durlston was realised as we saw a Wall Brown erratically flying over the car park area in despite another warm start at home in Hampshire today decidedly greyer and colder conditions at Portland to what we’ve had the rest of this week. It was a joy to see it we had got into the pattern of seeing this butterfly in April at Durlston since 2017 but we missed the April visit due to strict lockdown and missed it there yesterday so it once again became a swing species we could see it or we might not and how many butterflies I ultimately see this year fine margins as to if that’s more or less than previous years could hinge on it. Another top butterfly to see this week. 

As well as take in views, I took the first three pictures in this photoset of views and the famous lighthouse, we then walked over rocks to look over the sea at Portland Bill and were delighted to see more Guillemots and Razorbills after our first of the year yesterday at Durlston. I think after three consecutive years of getting spoilt by closeup views of these two auks two of my favourite birds on Skomer Island (Pembrokeshire), at RSPB Bempton Cliffs, Flamborough Head and co. in Yorkshire (two years ago today we had our first adventure at Bempton in fact) and the Farne Islands (Northumberland) I felt like I loved seeing them that bit further away at Durlston on an amazing day yesterday still bur I sort of felt it all went a bit too quick and I didn’t get that chance to linger with them sort of as much. 

Likewise Fulmar another of my seabird favourite birds my main favourite birds over time really we normally see at Durlston in April very close as they fly around the cliffs they nest. It was only a short view well out to sea yesterday which I loved but early on here today we got a cracking view of one fly right beside us which was great. It was nice to spend precious time with these favourite birds of mine again to really sustain a fix for them and with the circumstances I felt so pleased to see one this year. As we heard Herring Gulls wail throughout the walk today I felt a real strong sense of being where I best like to be again this week and the strict lockdown made me miss, by the sea. 

We looked over a quarry area here where we have see Little Owls my last pre-restrictions bird year tick at Fort Cumberland all the way back on 22nd March and we were thrilled to just like early on on the cliffs at Durlston yesterday see a young Kestrel and it’s parents. Different light and weather conditions, similar stunning views to yesterday. It was fascinating to see the adult consume some prey it had too. I took the fourth picture in this photoset of this. 

In the grey conditions I took the fifth picture in this photoset later on we moved on and this walk became rather became the surprise package of the week as I got another butterfly year tick. A Gatekeeper was gently flying alongside a bush near the bird observatory and we saw another up the track opposite side of the road where we searched for another Wall Brown we’d seen one here before in 2016 but didn’t see another today. It was amazing to see the Gatekeeper, a beautiful summer butterfly I always look forward to and once again my earliest ever sighting of the species in a year. What’s more it was really the last very common butterfly i.e I could see them at Lakeside right by the house that I needed to see this year. It feels weird to be saying that before July has even begun when I normally see them first in a year! But it is butterfly 38 in my year, making it guaranteed to be my joint fourth highest ever butterfly year list total as I saw 38 butterflies through all of 2017, only in 2014 (39), 2018 (42) and 2019 (45) have I seen more butterfly species in a year. It puts me early this year in a position where there are only eight butterfly species I’ve seen in my life that I haven’t yet seen this year. Two of those it’s not geographically possible for me to see this year so I’m proud of where we’ve got to. But it’s made me think we are in those peak butterfly weeks this year now with so much about and I need to make the most of it. 

On that note as we walked round and saw Marbled Whites one shown in the sixth of the pictures I took in this photoset today at yet another place this week I remarked to myself how notable and different this was this year. I’ve usually always seen the Marbled Whites locally at Lakeside by now then we go on holiday somewhere and don’t see them for a bit usually the habitat doesn’t come up or whatever. But this has felt like a holiday just a holiday of day trips to wherever there’s been some decent grassland we’ve seen Marbled Whites all across the south which has been interesting to see them at different places. As we walked around we also got very close to two gigantic Ravens a key bird of Portland and it was amazing to make our their feather patterns and bodies and really take in what magnificent birds they are. A beautiful moment. I took the eighth picture in this photoset of one. 

Just before that we saw another Fulmar gliding delightfully beside a cliff as they do over the sea and we went on to get some exceptional views of about four of five of this stunning bird. I took the seventh picture in this photoset of one of these Fulmars. We also saw more Guillemots and Razorbills on the sea water and cliffs. I took some far away pictures I was pleased with with my bridge camera which I tweeted on Dans_Pictures of the Guillemots and Razorbills with me at places I’ve seen them closer been able to see them really close in other parts of the country I’ve not often needed my long distance specialist bridge camera to photograph them but I had the idea today and was glad I did as I was happy with the pictures it allowed me to take them. It got me thinking in the wake of not having a seabird holiday this year before I’d even heard of really let alone been to Skomer, Bempton and the Farnes in the early days when I was getting into birdwatching the auks and other seabirds were the ones I loved and coming to Portland Bill to see Guillemots and Razorbills was the highlight of my year really. Obviously with the utmost respect to Portland experiences like Skomer etc. get you amazingly close to these birds. But this year Durlston and Portland which we do yearly to see seabirds the last couple of days have perhaps taken centre seabird stage for me this year for me which has felt amazing. It was nice to reflect on this. 

And the reason we now do Durlston and Portland at least annually is that in 2015 and then 2016 albeit we did South Stack at Anglesey during an impromptu Snowdonia holiday the latter where we saw many Guillemots and Razorbills and Puffin where we would have been this week we couldn’t go to places like Skomer due to us caring for my Nan who had dementia. So with Guillemots, Razorbills and I’d add Gannets to that very thankfully seen just further away perhaps between here and Durlston seeing Fulmar took over as in many cases the ultimate favourite bird experience in a year for me. Durlston usually provides us with as good if not better Fulmar views than some of the amazing seabird sites we have been across the county so I increased my affinity with Fulmar in those more fallow years for seabird big trips away and today it just got me to that stage again of feeling so excited seeing them dash past us on the cliffs. 

We were then able to safely call into RSPB Lodmoor in Weymouth on the way back I took the ninth picture a landscape in this photoset here as we often do on Portland trips alongside or instead sometimes Radipole Lake it’s sister reserve in Weymouth as such. We saw some great flatter coast birds at Lodmoor today Common Tern, Little Egret and Shelduck the highlights and it was nice to see some young birds Black-headed Gull chicks and a young Mallard here. I also saw some michaelmas daisies here a brilliant flower I love seeing my first of the year a key species of this habitat. Usually more an early autumnal characteristic but not out of place among some blackberries seen growing today and very early autumnal leaves it seems lately. I took the tenth and final picture in this photoset of a lovely Goldfinch here part of a finch hat trick with Chaffinch and Greenfinch here too. We also got chatting at a distance of over two metres to some really nice people including a family who were very excited to be looking at Grey Herons. I took in nice views of Weymouth looking nice and quiet on the beach good to see after the shocking scenes at Bournemouth and Poole fairly nearby yesterday in light of the need for social distancing as we had at also nearby to here Durdle Door earlier in the year on the way, Weymouth as our main family holiday destination as I grew up and sights of it mean a lot to me. At Lodmoor and as we left I took in another one and always the gateway to Weymouth on any trip here the White Horse by Osmington. 

Well that brings to an end well at least the weekdays I have had off facilitating the surrounding county trips which have been too quick it felt but have safely and in a variety of places packed with sensational walks, views, incredible wildlife watching with truly so much seen across birds,  butterflies, moths, dragon/damselflies, mammals, reptiles and flowers. I still have a weekend to look forward to to add on to it with a couple of nice walks I hope to come I hope you all have a good one. 

Wildlife Sightings Summary: (Portland) My first Wall Brown and Gatekeeper butterflies of 2020, one of my favourite butterflies the Red Admiral, three of my favourite birds the Fulmar, Guillemot and Razorbill, Herring Gull, a star of the week Great Black Backed Gull, Black-headed Gull as we did yesterday at Durlston over the sea we don’t usually see this often very urban and flat coasted bird at places like this with cliffs etc, Herring Gull, Shag, Cormorant, Carrion Crow, Raven, Magpie, Rock Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Skylark, Swift, Swallow, House Martin, Starling, Woodpigeon, Kestrel, Large White, Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Five-spot Burnet moth one of my favourites, another little moth and nice flowers. (Lodmoor) Two more of my favourite birds the Shelduck and Little Egret a great day for favourite birds of mine as these trips very often are, one of my favourite butterflies the Red Admiral, Grey Heron, Oystercatcher, Common Tern, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black Backed Gull, Canada Goose, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Mallard, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Goldfinch and I heard Reed Warbler.

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*

My goal in life is the destruction of 5G masts. I cut my sandwich into triangles as a lower-middle class pretension. Back outside, my window, one time, a cream room, a view of the street’s antenna. The problem with David Lynch is how he makes too much sense. Back in the simulacrum, a boy, my age, rangers in North America, first as tragedy, then as… ironing out our balaclavas, filling out our milk bottles; backpacks unattended on park benches, on the bus.

*

A page of Baudrillard, hides the truth to view witnesses fraying little by little into ruins, discernible ruined empire, rotting carcass of the soil double ends simulation, this fabled second-order no longer that of a territory, no longer saturated, a hyperreal map one must

return without origin, shreds unusable a questionable sovereign difference – the charm abstraction, the coextensivity of poetry, the representation produced no imaginary. Operational, in fact, no longer memory radiating synthesis, no space without atmosphere, no worse

curvature. Imitation, nor duplication; leaving room for simulated liquidation.

-Alex Mazey

.the title changes.

there is too much interference things could be left alone things were alright anyway

the battery is low yet plugged in the radio buzzes.

things are distorted

so i did what he says, whilst running up and down the stairs.

source to av, only there aint no av, not on that one anyhow.

press my scart lead, that is probably it.

press the sky button, the sky does not respond.

we still has television snow.

mine are bifocal and can distort gently if i concentrate poorly on the centre i have had help a while grateful at least that i can see unlike some of my family

yesterday I watched a documentary about monkeys

-sonja benskin mesher

The new starboard

Our larvae split their skin in the signal-fry, warmed over by the wire-witched currents of one filigree moon in a hundredweight sky

and if we no longer see the stars how do they counsel a chart for a new grub, or pull a blood’s spirit-iron toward the dissolving north

and if we no longer feel these waves how may we know our own water, what deeps us for the giddy bubble of this sailing. And I know

there are rocks here still, they make chimneys of it to vent everything we can’t burn railing sparks against the sky- silver that meshes none of our tides true

and it will rain hot tonight, the sizzle pelting the new hatchlings

-Ankh Spice

Of Forest And Stick

Foe forest, faux forest fee-fi-fo forest. Where giants hurl their broken stories from broadcast heaven to stone cast ground. Real, this least of things.

Inarticulate metal arms pluck down your dreams, to place within the flakes of soul slow dying desiccation.

Sick insects wave. These metal poles sway clamped to roof and breast.

All point as one, their martyr fingers show. As minds walk psychotic in their circular days.

To stars and planets that orbit our night sleep late night drunk deep on their celestial milky ways.

Antennae wave hello. Behind smudged glass walls as we sit and stare into this aquarium hell of our own making.

As we spread across our furniture of forked cartons, plastic and messy despair We start to take on our corrupt story.

https://thewombwellrainbow.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/of-forest-and-stick.m4a

© Dai Fry 4th May 2020.

Reception

Quiet the cluttered airways. Listen. Too many voices reaching skyward, Clamoring for reception, Propelling selfhood upward,

Destroys collaborative Synergy. And interference causes failure. After all, Man-made towers were only Ever meant to fall.

https://thewombwellrainbow.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/reception.m4a

-st

Every Stem Is

an aerial, antennae whose signal carries an image and a sound of growth and bloom.

Leaves are directors, flagellum, reach out, test the air and vibrations.

Listen can your hear the messages, or is it distorted,

image overlaid on image, sound overlaid on sound?

It processes fake news, phishing and cyber attacks. discerns real from false. scents and trails.

A filter bubble, an information sceptic decides what diminishes it, what makes it grow.

what makes it turn towards warmth, towards brightness.

More than a conduit.

-Paul Brookes

effluorescence

concrete flowerbed: aluminium amaranths dream of fecund earth

-Rich Follett

These gray structures loom Like a dead alloy forest A mill’s epitaph

-Carrie Ann Golden

The Arrival (EEN)

Blue eclipse sudden shudder silver vibrations strange sensations mauve hues silent screams shattered dreams rainbow screams black void bleak skies pink cries identity hides no way out seek beware who goes there wait stop where no here why there marble hush turquoise crush hide smile cry illusion confusion static wailing connections failing conscience melting blood moon a light alight powder dawn seek destroy rebuild regenerate no rescue failed sight emerald night pyramid flight incoming yellow tongue purple feast horrible sightings a drone atone leave us alone lavender glass chards charge cut chaos comet rush – Reverse

https://thewombwellrainbow.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/the-arrival-een-mp3.mp3

The Arrival (TWEE)

Falling earth new birth cosmic boom blast break away descend evacuate take position brace brave pathetic beast eject object reject investigate attack no way back hold blinding strobe light up get up move no room fire storm go swerve dive testing resting make haste chase erase record a face strange days delete reboot reverse rethink incoming homecoming survive surrender sharp solar bursts the thirst implosion ration succession orchestration new nation sinking earth toxic rebirth black hole tar soul screeching silence severed signals strange sour suns

https://thewombwellrainbow.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/the-arrival-twee-mp3.mp3

-Don Beukes

Bios and Links

-Alex Mazey

(b.1991) received his MA (distinction) from Keele University in 2017. He later won The Roy Fisher Prize for Poetry with his debut pamphlet, ‘Bread and Salt’ (Flarestack, TBA). He was also the recipient of a Creative Future Writers’ Award in 2019. His poetry has featured regularly in anthologies and literary press magazines, most notably in The London Magazine. His collection of essays, ‘Living in Disneyland’, will be available from Broken Sleep Books in October 2020. Alex spent 2018 as a resident of The People’s Republic of China, where he taught the English Language in a school run by the Ministry of Education. His writing has been described as ‘wry and knowing,’ with ‘an edge that tears rather than cuts or deals blows.’

Twitter: @AlexzanderMazey

Instagram: alexmazey

Here is my interview of Alex:

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2018/12/18/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-alex-mazey/

-Rich Follett

is a High School English and Creative Writing teacher who has been writing poems and songs for more than forty years. His poems have been featured in numerous online and print journals, including BlazeVox, The Montucky Review, Paraphilia, Leaf Garden Press and the late Felino Soriano’s CounterExample Poetics, for which he was a featured artist. Three volumes of poetry, Responsorials (with Constance Stadler), Silence, Inhabited, and Human &c. are available through NeoPoiesis Press (www.neopoiesispress.com.)

As a singer-songwriter, Rich has released five albums of independent contemporary folk music. His latest. Somewhere in the Stars, is available at http://www.richfollett.com. He lives with his wife Mary Ruth Alred Follett in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he also pursues his interests as a professional actor, playwright, and director.

-Ankh Spice

is a sea-obsessed poet from Aotearoa (NZ). His poetry has appeared in a wide range of international publications and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He truly believes that words have the power to change the place we’re in, and you’ll find him doing his best to prove it on

Twitter: @SeaGoatScreams or on Facebook: @AnkhSpiceSeaGoatScreamsPoetry

-Carrie Ann Golden

is a deafblind writer from the mystical Adirondack Mountains now living on a farmstead in northeastern North Dakota. She writes dark fiction and poetry. Her work has been published in places like Piker Press, Edify Fiction, Doll Hospital Journal, The Hungry Chimera, GFT Press, Asylum Ink, and Visual Verse.

-sonja benskin mesher

born , Bournemouth.

now

lives and works in North Wales as an independent artist

‘i am a multidisciplinary artist, crafting paint, charcoal, words and whatever comes to hand, to explain ideas and issues

words have not come easily. I draw on experience, remember and write. speak of a small life’.

Elected as a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy and the United Artists Society The work has been in solo exhibitions through Wales and England, and in selected and solo worldwide. Much of the work is now in both private, and public collections, and has been featured in several television documentaries, radio programmes and magazines.

Here is my interview of sonja benskin mesher:

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2018/10/16/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-sonja-benskin-mesher/

-Samantha Terrell

is an American poet whose work emphasizes emotional integrity and social justice. She is the author of several eBooks including, Learning from Pompeii, Coffee for Neanderthals, Disgracing Lady Justice and others, available on smashwords.com and its affiliates.Chapbook: Ebola (West Chester University Poetry Center, 2014)

Website: poetrybysamantha.weebly.com Twitter: @honestypoetry

Here is my 2020 interview of her:

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2020/04/08/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-samantha-terrell/

-Don Beukes

is a South African and British writer. He is the author of ‘The Salamander Chronicles’ (CTU) and ‘Icarus Rising-Volume 1’ (ABP), an ekphrastic collection. He taught English and Geography in both South Africa and the UK. His poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections and translated into Afrikaans, Persian, French and Albanian. He was nominated by Roxana Nastase, editor of Scarlet Leaf Review for the ‘Best of the Net’ in 2017 as well as the Pushcart Poetry Prize (USA) in 2016. He was published in his first SA Anthology ‘In Pursuit of Poetic Perfection’ in 2018 (Libbo Publishers) and his second ‘Cape Sounds’ in 2019 (Gavin Joachims Publishing). He is also an amateur photographer and his debut Photographic publication appeared in Spirit Fire Review in June 2019. His new book, ‘Sic Transit Gloria Mundi’/Thus Passes the Glory of this World’ is due to be published by Concrete Mist Press.

Here is my interview of Don Beukes:

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/11/02/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-don-beukes/

-Dai Fry

is an old new poet. He worked in social care but now has no day job. A keen photographer and eater of literature and lurid covers. Fascinated by nature, physics, pagans, sea and storm. His poetry seeks to capture image and tell philosophical tales. Published in Black Bough Poetry, Re-Side, The Hellebore Press and the Pangolin Review. He can be seen reading on #InternationalPoetryCircle and regularly appears on #TopTweetTuesday. Twitter. @thnargg Web seekingthedarklight.co.uk

Audio/Visual. @IntPoetryCircle #InternationalPoetryCircle Twitter #TopTweetTuesday

-Paul Brookes

is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. His chapbooks include The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). The Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018) The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Port Of Souls (Alien Buddha Press, 2018), Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), Stubborn Sod, with Marcel Herms (artist) (Alien Buddha Press, 2019), As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). Forthcoming Khoshhali with Hiva Moazed (artist), Our Ghost’s Holiday (Final book of threesome “A Pagan’s Year”) . He is a contributing writer of Literati Magazine and Editor of Wombwell Rainbow Interviews.

-Mary Frances

is an artist and writer based in the UK. She takes a few photos every day, for inspiration and to use in her work. The images for this project were all taken in the last two years on walks during in the month of May. Her words and images have been published by Penteract Press, Metambesen, Ice Floe Press, Burning House Press, Inside the Outside, Luvina Rivista Literaria, and Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness. Twitter: @maryfrancesness

-James Knight

is an experimental poet and digital artist. His books include Void Voices (Hesterglock Press) and Self Portrait by Night (Sampson Low). His visual poems have been published in several places, including the Penteract Press anthology Reflections and Temporary Spaces (Pamenar Press). Chimera, a book of visual poems, is due from Penteract Press in July 2020.

Website: thebirdking.com.

Twitter: @badbadpoet

Here is my interview of James Knight:

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/01/06/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-james-knight/

-Sue Harpham

is an admin worker, currently not in work Married, 2 sons. Loves poetry and words. She considers herself a writer of scribble rather than a poet. She has written a novel and is using her spare time to finally get it published (self-publishing) which has been an ambition of her for the last 10 years.

Welcome to a special ekphrastic challenge for May. Artworks from Mary Frances, James Knight and Sue Harpham will be the inspiration for writers, Alex Mazey, Ankh Spice, Samantha Terrell, Dai Fry, Carrie Ann Golden, sonja benskin mesher, Rich Follett, Don Beukes and myself. May 5th. * My goal in life is the destruction of 5G masts. I cut my sandwich into triangles as a lower-middle class pretension.

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✅ Black marble-effect sunglasses with a clear Swarovski® crystal on each arm. UV400 protection.

✅ Smoke gradient polycarbonate lenses.

✅ Comes in a black case with cleaning cloth.

✅ Complies with BS EN ISO 12312-1:2013.

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