this post is ruined. god knows what has happened. 26/8/2023

the cover of the Kew magazine shouts out:

the new way to

WINTER

What was wrong with the old way, I wonder. And what is the new way? Well, you have to slow down, and

STOP, LOOK, LOVE

And you will find that ‘fully experiencing this most underrated of seasons can invigorate and clear the mind’.

And did you know that ‘One of the most striking signs of winter is that of the deciduous tress shedding their leaves to reveal their great natural architecture.’

And this they’re telling to people who’ve already forked out about £75 to be Kew members. Out here there are still people who experience trees primarily as things which distort and deform the pavements, or cast unwelcome shade and shed their leaves to stick to the car and block the drains, but they won’t hear the exhortation to love. Their experience of winter is full of cold, damp and darkness, if it were otherwise the experience of spring would be less intense.  

I’ve been fully experiencing this advert for vaping:

I’ve experienced it on and on for the whole of this year, and last year too: I didn’t notice it at first, as if it were like the blue tits, so I don’t know when it was stuck up, but I’ve seen it all through the first lockdown, glowing in the sun, all through the summer break, into the wind and rain and the second lockdown, smiling and smiling, on and on, so pleased with themselves, but trapped to grin forever like in the Red Shoes, until the moment for me to act finally arrived.