Monday 7th August 2017
Didn’t get to sleep till after half-two this morning and up again at eight. At the desktop much of the day, catching up on emails, keying in work and checking out books. Cracking review by Keith Parker of Peter Mortimer’s The Chess Traveller – great bike travelogue, the sort of thing I’d love to read. Also got seven sections (‘signatures’) – of ‘Anomalies’ printed out. Feels pretty substantial at nearly 170 pages; there’s another 200 in the hard drive. Looking forward to pruning back the final selection and knocking up the first deluxe hardback. But it’ll be a fair few weeks yet. Enjoyed watching some zine documentaries, listened to a couple of Toyah albums and had a sleep… Loving the porridge with chocolate spread. And the ham and pease pudding sandwiches. Hope I sleep better tonight. Aiming to get a lot more work done tomorrow. 10.57 pm.
Tuesday 8th August 2017
Much of today spent reading aloud my forthcoming book ‘Laughter To Split Glass’. In addition to the half a dozen corrections the other day, a couple more. Trouble is, the more you look for typos, the more you question the content. Never finished, only abandoned. You could go on looking forever. Besides typos, there has to be a cut-off point. Jenni made me a new PDF of the updated Word document… Was good to watch some biketrial stuff tonight. Tony Gadd sent me some clips of daredevils with death wishes; riding along the girders of bridges, hundreds of feet long and hundreds of feet above the ground. One slip and it’s funeral time. I sent him some links to Martyn Ashton footage… Been reading Cliff Yates’ ‘JUMPSTART Poetry in the Secondary School’ with interludes of bicycle DIY garden zinester Matte Resist’s perzines. Hungry to make my own soon. 10.31 pm.
Wednesday 9th August 2017
Doesn’t matter what time I go to bed, I still wake up around six o’clock. This morning a poem I thought finished niggled me somewhat – too many words with ‘r’ sounds running into each other. Ended up discovering a missed rhyme. Reworked the poem twice. Got some flyers / posters printed at Waddy this lunchtime for my New College Durham autumn creative writing course. Then wrote a collaborative sonnet draft at Appletree about Rapunzel who gets pissed off with no WiFi in the tower, opts for a buzz cut and abseils to freedom… Me and Jenni went to eat4less this evening then mooched around stationary and bookshops. Emma Whitehall gave us freebie chocolates – one of the perks of working at Thorntons. An hour at Jen’s watching television then read Matte Resist on the bus back to Consett. Food supplies at Tesco and last bus to Moorside. OK. 11.33 pm.
Thursday 10th August 2017
Decent weather made me feel calm with some clear headspace so I decided to cross-reference two versions of my book – took over eleven hours, but worth doing as it drew my attention to some things I’d like to tweak a bit further. I think it will be good back-up to read over and reacquaint with the material... Listened to a few snippets of music from a band called Mastodon this evening. Stoner doom music reminiscent of Neurosis in places… Pleased to have time off. Probably not do any edits till Saturday now; would like to go out on the bike or longboard before the summer slips away. But today felt like the right time to do important work. 11.31 pm.
Friday 11th August 2017
Today I’m a little knackered. Only six hours sleep. I hate dashes, colons and semi-colons. I reckon my next poems will be mainly lowercase using only line breaks as punctuation. I read Hypomaniac cover to cover a few weeks ago and apart from one typo – picked up a few days after publication back in July 2009 – there’s only a word or two that I’d change. I need to be in no doubts about the new stuff. Asked Mark Speeding about my poem Yesteryear's Lunch. Was just wondering if there ever was a time at Blackfyne when the wearing of a school blazer was expected in the dinner queue for priority access. As far as I recall this policy was only the lower school. It's only a little thing, and it shouldn't matter – poetic licence and all that - but it's still niggling at me. Keyed in some corrections for the book. Journal copy-ups. Good to take a day to rest and listen to Queen songs. 11.41 pm.
Saturday 12th August 2017
Every day I go out it fucking rains. Did some bank transactions, bought some ham and pease pudding, a few tins of soup. Came home, had a scroll through Facebook, cracked on with the type-ups of book corrections. Put in a good nine hours so far and only about sixteen pages to go, so I might just crack on into the small hours. Been listening to Queen albums all the while. From ‘Queen’ through to ‘News of the World’. Rarrgghhh! 11.46 pm.
Sunday 13th August 2017
Worked till half-three this morning. Only slept about five hours. Good to hear Jenni on the phone from Edinburgh this afternoon. She’s having a good time. Chuffed to get some of my work off to America this weekend; I put a copy of my Babble Gum gig set in the envelope with a miniature reprint of ‘So Much for the Sunshine’ yesterday plus a green mini-zine and sent as a trade for zines by Chris Francz of Room 15 Press in Delaware. Went out on the 27-speed bike. Have a snotty nose. Watched a film on TV called Beautiful Creatures – a supernatural fantasy thing. Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson plus a couple of young leads (Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich) I’d never heard of. 10.40 pm.
Didn’t get to sleep till after half-two this morning and up again at eight. At the desktop much of the day, catching up on emails, keying in work and checking out books. Cracking review by Keith Parker of Peter Mortimer’s The Chess Traveller – great bike travelogue, the sort of thing I’d love to read. Also got seven sections (‘signatures’) – of ‘Anomalies’ printed out. Feels pretty substantial at nearly 170 pages; there’s another 200 in the hard drive. Looking forward to pruning back the final selection and knocking up the first deluxe hardback. But it’ll be a fair few weeks yet. Enjoyed watching some zine documentaries, listened to a couple of Toyah albums and had a sleep… Loving the porridge with chocolate spread. And the ham and pease pudding sandwiches. Hope I sleep better tonight. Aiming to get a lot more work done tomorrow. 10.57 pm.
Tuesday 8th August 2017
Much of today spent reading aloud my forthcoming book ‘Laughter To Split Glass’. In addition to the half a dozen corrections the other day, a couple more. Trouble is, the more you look for typos, the more you question the content. Never finished, only abandoned. You could go on looking forever. Besides typos, there has to be a cut-off point. Jenni made me a new PDF of the updated Word document… Was good to watch some biketrial stuff tonight. Tony Gadd sent me some clips of daredevils with death wishes; riding along the girders of bridges, hundreds of feet long and hundreds of feet above the ground. One slip and it’s funeral time. I sent him some links to Martyn Ashton footage… Been reading Cliff Yates’ ‘JUMPSTART Poetry in the Secondary School’ with interludes of bicycle DIY garden zinester Matte Resist’s perzines. Hungry to make my own soon. 10.31 pm.
Wednesday 9th August 2017
Doesn’t matter what time I go to bed, I still wake up around six o’clock. This morning a poem I thought finished niggled me somewhat – too many words with ‘r’ sounds running into each other. Ended up discovering a missed rhyme. Reworked the poem twice. Got some flyers / posters printed at Waddy this lunchtime for my New College Durham autumn creative writing course. Then wrote a collaborative sonnet draft at Appletree about Rapunzel who gets pissed off with no WiFi in the tower, opts for a buzz cut and abseils to freedom… Me and Jenni went to eat4less this evening then mooched around stationary and bookshops. Emma Whitehall gave us freebie chocolates – one of the perks of working at Thorntons. An hour at Jen’s watching television then read Matte Resist on the bus back to Consett. Food supplies at Tesco and last bus to Moorside. OK. 11.33 pm.
Thursday 10th August 2017
Decent weather made me feel calm with some clear headspace so I decided to cross-reference two versions of my book – took over eleven hours, but worth doing as it drew my attention to some things I’d like to tweak a bit further. I think it will be good back-up to read over and reacquaint with the material... Listened to a few snippets of music from a band called Mastodon this evening. Stoner doom music reminiscent of Neurosis in places… Pleased to have time off. Probably not do any edits till Saturday now; would like to go out on the bike or longboard before the summer slips away. But today felt like the right time to do important work. 11.31 pm.
Friday 11th August 2017
Today I’m a little knackered. Only six hours sleep. I hate dashes, colons and semi-colons. I reckon my next poems will be mainly lowercase using only line breaks as punctuation. I read Hypomaniac cover to cover a few weeks ago and apart from one typo – picked up a few days after publication back in July 2009 – there’s only a word or two that I’d change. I need to be in no doubts about the new stuff. Asked Mark Speeding about my poem Yesteryear's Lunch. Was just wondering if there ever was a time at Blackfyne when the wearing of a school blazer was expected in the dinner queue for priority access. As far as I recall this policy was only the lower school. It's only a little thing, and it shouldn't matter – poetic licence and all that - but it's still niggling at me. Keyed in some corrections for the book. Journal copy-ups. Good to take a day to rest and listen to Queen songs. 11.41 pm.
Saturday 12th August 2017
Every day I go out it fucking rains. Did some bank transactions, bought some ham and pease pudding, a few tins of soup. Came home, had a scroll through Facebook, cracked on with the type-ups of book corrections. Put in a good nine hours so far and only about sixteen pages to go, so I might just crack on into the small hours. Been listening to Queen albums all the while. From ‘Queen’ through to ‘News of the World’. Rarrgghhh! 11.46 pm.
Sunday 13th August 2017
Worked till half-three this morning. Only slept about five hours. Good to hear Jenni on the phone from Edinburgh this afternoon. She’s having a good time. Chuffed to get some of my work off to America this weekend; I put a copy of my Babble Gum gig set in the envelope with a miniature reprint of ‘So Much for the Sunshine’ yesterday plus a green mini-zine and sent as a trade for zines by Chris Francz of Room 15 Press in Delaware. Went out on the 27-speed bike. Have a snotty nose. Watched a film on TV called Beautiful Creatures – a supernatural fantasy thing. Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson plus a couple of young leads (Alice Englert and Alden Ehrenreich) I’d never heard of. 10.40 pm.
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