GREY NOTEBOOK
16–01–2012 TO 25–02–2012
DRNR
– seasons
– bees
–
[arrow down to 'inventory']
(non)indigenous species (Anaïs)
mammals (2) Ruben
[arrow up from 'bee intro'] bees (MAX)
– insect/botanybatID
inventory of equipment
bee intro (Max)
dragonflies (Tiny)
hedgehog shelter - try to
arrange
a visit
? pond analysis – soil analysis
planning meeting – botany
–set up a google group for the
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pond life + classification - small
things
–woodland maintenance
FEB Native / non-native species
Ruben (marsupials)
start springwatch
project finish bee enclosure
clear litter
[line down to R]
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MAR Max (bees)
+ equipment
tidy bee shed
hive stands
frames bee enclosure
clean-up
APR collating springwatch stuff
MA Y pond organisms
JUN soil
JULY grasses
(Anaïs) AUG grassland
AUG SEP compare water chemistry btw
LP + DR : salinity
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[line down from L]
–flowers (ID + count species)
GS –bumblebees – ID + count
GS – short extension of marked trees
– soil temperature ( – graphing
crstnsnn@gmail.com (CRISTIANA)
[drawings for shelf elevations with dimensions]
[drawings for hive stands with dimensions]
33
3| 100
get 75' or so [timber]
75mm = 3" screws
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swahili class
CLM (Clement House) room 2.04
Claire (MOB) 07803 580 699
[drawing of the way to Clement House on Aldwych, nr Houghton St E of Kingway]
Marie 17 Langbourne (flats
mansion side;
"in a bizarre not houses)
holly lodge
like switzerland" 20 min from
Kentish Town
10 min from Archway
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18 JAN 2012
you are by the hive. children are shouting in the schoolyard. it's a warm moist afternoon after the a period of cold. youre w planes go over. you're watching bee come in with pollen: white; xx orange; off white. the bee are small and dark: smaller and darker
it seems than before in this light: orange; orange. the beekeeper is delighted especiallyto see bright orange pollen on the wi legs of the bees: looking around, midges are seen in a small cloud and leaves of bulbs appearing. the bees continue to come: nothing non -- ---- ----- three with nothing, the beekeeper the ora g yellow-orange; yellow; and continue to fly out in th half-light they sometimes miss. – on landing or or takingslip on taking off, falling. nto among the dead bees by the entrbelow the entrance. it's feeling colder. this
aperture is already closing.
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techdirt
Mike Mastick
WTF — indie game developer forum
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[sketch of a table of attendance (by sam)]
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[words from wordsworth]
– Westminster
– temples
– sweet Majesty
– Gods
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– Westminster
– temples
– heart beat
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why should I care
Lavender Pond Finances
COSTS :
on costs: b
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| broadband
| heating ? (seasonal)
| water
| electricity
–
aim to get a monthly
aim to buy + figure which is
bring receipts set aside from the
____ money collected.
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presentations for Cubaidg
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Doves font lost in
the Thames
Just my Type
prune trees
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£6 to Louise for
T-shirt
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oyster card replacement
(Sasha)
call
21 JAN 2012
somebody xxx. sounds. impressions.
you're with /
by the creekside. it's saturday morning. a man is reading by the edge of the channel. smoking and reading a book. all the sounds. all the impressions. the huge sky over the creek is moving with light grey clouds, with light breaking through. light enters the eye. gulls lift and turn over the mud. to gull, to lift. to turn. a couple of cranes sticking right up. the cloud suddenly blew past : to htat th left [feint] : E and S . leaving the sky bright blue, the sun, low in S almost unveiled. recipe for a poached egg. recipe for a man: who reads, smokes, picks up a bag: leave [feint] s the quayside. gulls are silhouetted/s now onon the low brick building.
a new collection of cloud : whiter, lighter, vaporous, come rolling from the right the W. they read for pleasure, those lecturers : and to pass the time. they were not reading or teaching in order to split open: to explode appearances. theywe read Bakhtin and Barthes and Kant. Nietsche and Novalis. All the books in Fahrenheit 450
451. they passed in us, through us. all the gulls rise in a flock. and settle.
another man appears . a moment ago he was sitting behind you inside. he goes to the edge of the creek and looks over the rail. red fleece. a child's blue fleece half in his pack. another gap occurs in the clouds. the dancers come in groups: walking through the turf ziggurats. th man in the red passes off to the left. a new kind
of cloud is forming to the W in sheets. those sheets then form finger like clu extrusions as they travel move E. the water, you realize, has come in fast, covering much of the mud. it stretches up under thea narrow bridge or gap: glistening white and brown an airstream crosses: against the cloud cloud, closely followed by another: darting from E to W: piercing, spreading, disappearing. the gulls lift[,] again : turning th s way and that huku na huku in the light shining off the river, and the railing and the cloud itself. another group of dancers arrives. the river is full of water. the morning is well advanced. a new group of grey formations, now plentifully pierced and routinely crossed by jets. S is here now.
occupy need:
vegetables
sugar
milk
butter
rice, pasta
coffee
[ clothes? ]
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film:
Utopia London (Alice
Coleman)
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ReclaimTheFields.org
Realistic Idealism
youtube.com/jamesalbury
demotech.org
rail
[drawings of fences]
I didn't know what to do with the work I did: it was a burden. you could say it was beautiful or it was good. or it wasn't.
becau whicheve
what-
ever, it remained a burden: to me; to others. there was a constant unspoken offer and a
with a question: I have all all
this stuff. wouldcould y that bebe an
useful \ relevant / any good to / for you, at all? I could do this, or that. I'm thinking: we could do that. is that something that interests you? would that work for you, at all, here? or in another
the discussion is always about the translations of a burden into a potential. after lifting/andholding: up a certain weight, some kind of slide or discharge xxxxx present which wil discharge. then you will be at ease. the[n] you will be paye payed up. it might work. a little: you
get a ticket or a tatoo, which entitles you to wine. you don't drink much: you're at work. you're working. your work is entering p out there. you're so tired when you get home. about 2 or 3. everybody asleep. there's some cold food. you['re] not hungry. you smell of the shunt smell. you take off your clothes. the smell of shunt, however, is in your system. it come[s] out your pores. like you're trying to remember: it's been a while: when you
get in to bed: you climb under the duvet, on the futon. some parts of a person's body ar[e] cold, in general, other parts are warm, specifically. there's a mismatch. youre really tired. you really fall: fall a xxsleepxx.
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22 DEC 2012
even if if you're asleep. it's nice to lie against your legs
I'm tired
I need to get some
sleep
Wigmore OrderRef. Number: 916953
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Makonde Carver film
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SAM's spanish
we need: CD for Edexcel
GCSE Higher
[in pencil]
DEC 22<
I'mwa insid[e] you now. with both breasts in m mouth,
if s
you do that I'll come, you said. come go &nsbp; in to details come it's morning. go into detail. .. come
PUB LOG
FRI 27th loud music
until at least
11.
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6
TU 31 JAN 2012
it's 6.20. it's dark. you got up and put wood on the fire and plugged in a battery to charge for the drill. you turned off the light and came back to bed. you were sleeping uneasily before, thinking about chickens. yo build a secure run. you were thinking about a a sound walk at Lavender Pond. where would you go? You
Can you crosscrossup into over StavethroughHill the ecology park o over
and through the Surrey Quays shopping centre and back down to the foreshore by the farm ? that might work; isn't there some kind of road bridge? a plane goes over. the sky xis just starting to turn dark blue. a slightbluishglow is begins to be increases spreads in the recesses of the roof windows in the roof. S is breathing steadily. on saturday night you were in A+E with M. he was having trouble breathing. he agreed to wear a mic and be on 24 hour A+E. but we were only there a while. his breathing already got better in the car and they sent him hom[e] with the inhaler. all sunday he lay on the sofa instead of doing
circus. by monday afternoon he was looking better. he got up and made a crumble.
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pub log
31 JA[N] 23:20
music has been loud for some time + continuing —
[inside double + triple glazing]
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used railway CCTV monitors
for installation
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? Tayab Salih: Season of
Migration to the North
1 FEB 2012
you're at Farringdon. Farringdon means nothing to you, to be honest. the doors bleep and you moved out of the station. a man to you left is reading Season of Migration to the North. you are it's a bright cold day. you can see a tunnel. you're on your way to see Marie Kernec in her flat on the edge of the cemetery at Highgate. you pass an abandonned station piled with building materials before gliding into the clean smooth concrete of St Pancras International. smootch concrete alternates with stainless steel panels in a fantasy of transportat rationalurban transit. the connection run[ ] straight down to Paris and the ________. 9. missing that diversion, you enter an area of concentrated graffiti along and cabling. ꞈthis is Kentish Town the train terminates here.
being aware that we are ghosts - we are interested in ghostly / transmissi spectral transmission — what strategies do we have for that — how does that affect how we work?
+ it seem[s] strange to think of transmitting ourselves, [as/our] dead people, into the future, when the future is unwritten + all around us people are alive, trying to keep warm + occupy the space + move the space on + it is v. old fashioned to be so concerned w yourself when everybody is concerned w collecti[v]es.
a family is a collective
alt ed groups is a collective..
— now everybody is an artist —
the artist's role now maybe is to invite in: toth way jarvis cocker shows how he scratching dry penmade common people:
it's ok to try something: some dissent; to think things are not so good; things are a mess; a catastrophe; to participate [ ] the catastrophe of one['s] making. you don t have to have a certificate from RIBA or some LCC – you can communicate or make something. failure is built in to those interactions — contradictions infuse those interactions — xxx the creative life flows through them — when it stops to flow — that is something we sense — strongly - when it turns to a mode we once called ''art''.-
Arts Awards involves 4 categories
see Arts Award Guide :
online
2 new levels launched in April
Annabel says it will take 3 wks
to do bronze as a practice
as you go from bronze to gold, part 4 becomes evolves from sharing towards running an arts event
x prezi for online
portfolios orblog
child need to be 11 (10+?)
when portfolio is submitted
can be done over short or long
period
olympic link ...
Bustops website to show
stuff on screen on
bus shelters
Alfie Denon www.bus.tops.com
can also advise or ask at the
· Bridget/ to organise a group list
· students to be clustered in groups eg by subject?
Caroline is contact
cost of the course is £20 per person
moderation — xxxxxx
uk
artsawards.org.xxxx
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peter
keith watkins : eg Punishment
Park
screenonline. The War Game
org.uk Culloden
Privilege
electricsheep (The Journey (145 hrs)
magazine.com / La Commune
music: sound of the police
overseer v. quickly ->
officer
Kay Raswan
The Who: New Revolution
We do Wont Get Fooled
Again
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the question: the big question which is also the obvious: the glaringly obvious and essentially in effect: the only question x
is: why is this person doing all th[is]: recording, writing, all th[is] down and putting all th[is] online? what for.
sasha's iTun[es] bill
23.97
27.97
22.96
89.95
69.99
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234.84
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SAT 4 FEB 2012
now you are ill. the coll decline of a person: their xxxx
ambition and their health – mirrors the decline of this system – its descent. weak and alone, you go about our business. everybody has lost hope in this project. they wander here and there, escaping as they are
able. nobody can make a clean break. string[] bind: i the hidden cloak of the spider silk around our shoulder in a dismal shawl. time passes without event. S is out. he can not be contacted. he does [not] reply. only to be out, he severs all ties in hope. we are left trapped. drifting aimless. tired and ill and cold. that is our condition some of us read meaningless fiction, laughing sporadically on impulse. it's our condition. some of us are under sedation. the worry
and contempt in the eyes of onlookers real and imaginary – flickers back and forth.
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it's snowing — it's snowing in London – your w camera's wet – you went outside - [you finished watching So[y]lent Green] — you went outside — you took drunken shots of in the snow. of you children + p — it's snowing — what do you think — xx it's thi is
it the last snow? — you watched Soylent Green — what happened to that film — that bond eco film with bond babes etc guess it got buried? you went th outside the windows the snow was falling + the light was shining : you went out, thinking: is this the last snow fall? [arrow]
cp ou sont les neiges d'antan?? (Villon) – where are the snows, as they used to translate it: 'of yesteryear'??? w where [ ] the snow go? with the lettuce + apples + whisky + meat — of soylent green — soylent green is people— we're eating people - what a surprise ?!
the pub next door — is there a pub next door to you — taking the snow as a auspicious event — open it windows — the street is full of disco musics ... it s quite late at night — it dark yet light..
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6 FEB
a few hours before, you remember falling back onto your bed the way Charlie Fox or Orson Welles or Robert Maxwell fell back in to the water: your shoulders met the flat
lavender pond: ·food
gas burner ·fruit
couscous pot · coffee
· tea
harissa stuff · milk
yoghurt? · bread + jam
·couscous
coriander lemon lime ginger
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sheet – P was sleeping after being ill all day. it's 6.12. you're tired. you'r making bread and soup. it's dark. plane. th snow has almost all melted.
0845 1640805
3053711L claim ref.
no.
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7 FEB 2012
8.16 you can't get up. you were meant to get up at 6. the alarm went on and on. you fell b it was barely getting light. you remember the dark grey trapezium : now it's dull white. P has been up making breakfast: clearing th dishes; making coffee. p is better. after throwing up over and over on sunday, no or monday was when you got in monday afternoon she was looked better and today almost
better. everyone else is asleep. you went to lavender pond. the ice was melting: full of tracks and holes from waterfowl. there was damp snow still on the ground in the small woodland. p comes up with a cup ofhot coffee – go down. steaming in a black cup. go dow she is still feeling unwell. go down. water pouring into the kettle. whisking chocolate. go down. the sky has brightened. go down
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9 FEB 2012
it's 6.48 the sky is faintly lighter; lilac to the East; blue in the West. a plane crosses from West to East from your feet to your head, and passes out of ear's reach. thoreau d
thoreau describes the ripe leaves of autumn:
Sep 30, 1851 "The white ash has got its autumnal mulberry hue," he writes on 30 se September 30 1851. "What is the autumnal tint of the black ash?" ˯ He describes
On Oct 1 at 5PM
helping Henry Williams, an escaped slave, get to Canada, after failingto raise enough moneyto buy himself from his master, "who is his father", for $ 600. Three days later, on Oct 4, he describe[s] the far how acertain farmer named Minott stores corn-stalks, xx fasten floors his and floors his barn with timber he has felled himself, held down with oak g pegs. pins.
"Minott is, perhaps, the most poetical farmer.. that I know. He does nothing with haste and drudgery, but as if he loved it."
Oct 5 Sunday ..(I speak of
... White ash, from green to dark purple or mulberry...
White oak, green inclining to yellow.. Sw Black ash, greenish yellow and now sered by frost."
soon after that I fell asleep. it was a little after midnight, 12.30 maybe. I was tired after sitting all day doing takeoff and landing; one moment you are on the ground: the n there is a roar, everybody is shaking. the view tilts: you hesitate: you are in the air. the first part is roug feels xxxbas is being roughly
pulled up: , then there is a l clambering, it feels like, and slipping: up through tiers of clouds. then there is a transition: the upward pressure tails off: you're gliding above the clouds, gliding smoothly. the captain switches off the no smoking sign fasten seatbelt sign. in the past he switched the no smoking signs went off all the smokers lit their cigarettes.[ ] the smoke drifted forward from the rear of the aircraft.
[ knocking the ash into little boxes in the arms of the chairs.]
it was ______. I was flying from New York, nilipozaliwa, to Oklahoma Tulsa, Oklahoma, to visit my grandparents, Von Ceil (Awalt) and Ernest Smith. Or it was ______: I was flying from London to returnreturn to university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I went out to Concord one time in a car. When I wouldIt made no impression on me. There was a celebrated battleground. I was reading the German Idealists. I was reading the Monadology of Leibniz in the Mug and Muffin. I hadn't
read Thoreau. The fugitive slave who had taken the name of Henry Williams, 'fled to Concord on foot from Boston. bring a The fugitive[s] bring many superstitions from Africa', writes Thoreau.. '[They] sometimes .. carry a turf in their hats, thinking that their success depends on it.'
These days w
I have never known an African to carry a turf in their hat, but hats are not worn so much now so xxx th[] custom may have died out. Mama Mtupa
is always trying to arrange for plants to be brought from Poland, and of course Wambui grows pumpkins. she is too busy to cultivate [in pencil] her allotment; she has given it over for her friends to use. but she keeps a small pumpkin patch there which she grows for the leave[s]. my freezer is full of pumpkin leaves, she told me. I pput the pumpkin in the compost. her mother sent her the seeds from Kenya.
the abi lity to save and
the exchange of seeds, freely in the way of as Minott's corn and did with his corn and Wambui pumpkin is a xxxxx free habit and freedom which is another way of and her mother with their pumpkins maboga is xxxxx x xxx part of a set of practices which are immediately when felt [felt] to be good by almost everybody. and which a small fractio of the corporate agents the aim of th[e] corporate entities now yesamong us in the form of bloated
personal entities — striding like enormous inf ruthless toddlers through the fields &mddash; these are the big american babies that are bring attacking the crops of the farmers, and the swahili teachers. and the gardeners leaning on their fence.
when those enraged red babies come over into / sight, take cover!
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heights
sam: 160
max: 155
'As a peasant [person?] who doesn't read or watch television, I can't make any judgement on it.'
[reference]
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SAT 11 FEB 2012
it's 6.34. you're lying in bed. ____ under the roof. yx the roof windows are covered in a thin layer of snow. it snowed you're lying against somebody[ ] legs wondering if www what they're thinking. you wonder what you're thinking yourself. you watched that boat go up the yangtze to the three gorges. it
[cross hatched p passed
area] through enormous
vast concrete
locks. they were talking
to the tour guides about
the changes in their lives. it's getting light. light begins to show through the frosted glass. xx they aren't really tour guides. they're workers on the boat but they have a hospitality role. it's a luxury cruise up the yangtze. one of them was homesick, she said, every day for her family who lived in a makeshift shack by the river. they lived were growing food and living among dogs and chickens. they had to leave. their house disappeared under the water as the level rose. the whole landscape was submerged. all the think of the landscapes that have been
covered by water. in Spain, Oklahoma, and India. people protest the dam. in China they were not protesting or it was too late. the protests happened perhaps many years before: Mao Tse Dong swam the Yang Tse river with some colleagues and wrote a poem about its it. develop in the poem he talks about bridging the Yangtze, controlling flooding, and creating a lake in the 3 Gorges. that poem, it seems, became a blueprint for development in that region. the dam project. protest is difficult. the project is prepared to destroy great tracts of land. how will it hesitate to sweep away a few people: ants in such a scheme — we
ants clung to the floating sandal in the face of flooding and destruction to the mo iconic landscapes in the culture, what is left but memories? people break down in tears at the thought of what is being done to them. the tourists are taken to see some model houses for the relocatees. the tour guide is a stooge for m the administration. we do not hear fromthe people themselves living in these houses. are not they may like it: who knows? it's a millenial project on a vast scale. x we saw the farming family picking maize and we noticed the pumpkins by the house as the daughter, who wanted to go to college, went off to the boat. she was re named Cindy. it's really bright now.
the snow in the roof window is cracked: the cracks are bright white: the rest is mottled grey. what will happen to the silt? all that silt will settle in the bottom of the dam, I think. all silt that alluvium for the crops in the lower Yangtze will be trapped, surely, and crops will be lost. not flourish. fertilizer will be made available and new kinds of crops engineered. by comparison, how do we envisag contemplate the landscape of the person, compared to such an engineering project on this scale? Experience, Confucius tells us, is the bitterest way to learn. it is bright enough now to read and write. you're writing, as usual in a small
grey notebook as usual. it's from Muji. it's probably made in china. the farmers and p the micro landscape of a person is a micro landscape. most poems are not blue prints for schemes, clearly. the boat passes an illuminated city: lit up like a fairground. people in it appeared dazed, amazed. Cindy would return to her family shack. But then the shack was gone. we saw her being taken in hand a[s] a project herself by another steward. she was made up and re-dressed. we think of her scrubbing that scrawny kitten. it seemed to survive. traffic has started on herne hill road it will soon be time
to get up and take S to Laban. you live by accident
owe Minet library £3
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10.00 Guildhall Silk St
Entrance
(room 208 + 209)
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[drawing of a fox-proof enclosure for hens showing A frame coop, and run with 'mesh skirting eg 3"–4" with hedge plants + climbers planted through']
SONG DONG : WASTE NOT
· containers used to feed stray dogs
· red entrance mat
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song que
[indeterminate sketch (routes, pipework, crossings, runs, etc)]
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[drawing of a hole for testing soil temperature at depths of 5, 10 and 15cm]
[table of results arranged by month (columns headed: Feb, March etc. rows labelled: 5, 10, 15.]
see The Georgics on
beekeeping
sharongabriel@
tiscali.com
(Sharon & Brandon)
· projector
· things for Vicki
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