3BT – skin tingles, head tickles, dusk chorus
1. I’m too hot but the room is cool. The air tickles my skin and I feel equilibrium returning. 2. Boron follows me into the bathroom and I ask him if there is anything he needs – there is food, water and he’s just had some milk. He rubs at my legs to say he [...]
3BT – new project, on anti-cry patrol, quiet time
1. She started but didn’t finish embroidering the linen table cloth. For 50p, I take on the challenge. 2. After giving Katherine hell for a week, poorly Joe is all smiles as I push him around the supermarket. It’s the exciting boingy hair and buy one get one free offers that get his interest. 3. [...]
3BT – spectrum, mid-afternoon break, menacing
1. The purple dye transforms all the items but each ends up a different colour depending on its fabric composition and soak time. The colours range from dusky pink to mottled heather and glossy aubergine. The wool yarn, the point of the dyeing session, is a muted grape – I like muted colours so it’s [...]
3BT – light/dark, improvisation, pillow purr
Between illness and busy-ness, May has been a tough month – I need to start Three Beautiful Thing-ing again to refocus on the good bits! 1. I sit in a pool of light in the woods reading about mysterious things in the dark depths of the sea. 2. We’ve left it too late to go [...]
3BT – once our own, the afternoon’s colours, nightmare-inducing
1. It’s still early for Armley and the woods are our own again. I tell Lily about the adventures the cats got up to when they lived here. It feels like a million years ago now. I thought I’d never been able to let it go but it’s been surprisingly easy. 2. The dusky pink [...]
3BT – those glorious days, bugs & shoots, happy crimes
1. I stay in bed longer than intended, re-reading ‘How I paid for college’ by Marc Acito. It’s one of my favourite books because the spirit reminds me of the best bits of my own youth – although there are less illegal antics and crazy Austrian step-mums in my story. 2. When I finally do [...]