I used to walk 10,000 steps a day. Not trying. Just getting on with my London life. If I was actually ‘going out for a walk’, it took me 10 kilometres to properly warm up. And if ever I was at all out of sorts, I always knew that after 10 days walking, I’d be back to …
I was a medical student the first time I saw a baby born. I’d been told about all the folding and unfolding and twisting and turning a baby does to get out of its mother. The reality is much more exciting. A tuft of hair emerges and retracts, and then emerges some more, to slowly become …
Every week, a Harris hawk flies over the shopping centre where I live, to stop the pigeons pooping on the shoppers. If I hear the jingle of the bells, I go down to chat to the falconer, and greet the splendid bird – who flies much more and much more freely than birds in aviaries. …
Roberto Rusconi from Intrasonus asked me to write a about the sound of fear. Here’s my submission: It’s just after New Year.Yorkshire is blanketed in snowSmothered in silence.Outside, there’s the squeak creak squeak creak of walking on fresh snow. As we get out onto the moors, the silence somehow gets louder, wider, huge-er. In between …
I wrote this for an American publication just as the anti-abortionists started getting really active. The title was changed to: Desperate Measures. The article was picked up by the Kevin MD blog. I asked to be anonymous simply to underline the deadly dangers clinicians face in the US if they take part in abortions but unfortunately …
I would like to share a letter that “was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. [coming] together to reflect on the narrative, strategies, tactics and demands of a reinvigorated climate movement in the UK”. The letter outlines a “foundational set of principles and demands that are rooted in justice” You can read the whole …
Starting on the side of a mountain and ending in a Luscious Fruiting Forest of Dreams.Multimedia theatre event as part of Wandsworth Art Fringe 2019 at Tara Arts on 10 May 2019 Videos are at http://bit.ly/2YGW6jF and YYY. 1: at 2.23 in http://bit.ly/2YGW6jF 2 at 3.30 in http://bit.ly/2YGW6jF 3 starts at 4.28 to 5.36 in …
At the end of the event, 20 people filled in the evaluation form . Some details of the results are below, with some comments. In summary:53% rated the event as excellent – the rest thought it was good.Most of the audience was new to the venue, the artist and WAF.Death is a feminist issue so it …