Letter to D

Morning D!

Yeah, the last time I was in ASDA was the day I got back from Centerparcs. I walked in wearing my black face mask and everyone was still only concerned with stockpiling bog rolls and hand sanitiser. Bumper to bumper they were, in queues snaking the aisles, all chatting away with fervid excitement like kids about to go to Blackpool on a school trip. Absolute nutters! 😂

It's so important to be able to think for yourself these days and not rely upon others for your own commonsense.

Glad you've been going for nice walks. I think I'm only gonna go out from sunrise onwards now as I want each outing to be poignant and I like the sense of having time to converse with nature one to one, with no one able to eavesdrop.

Unfortunately when I got back in the house and looked at the pics I'd taken, I didn't like any of them. Not because of the scene or composition, but because I had this mode on my phone activated called HDR mode which imbues everything with a horrible saturating vivacity that makes everything look crap. So I don't even want to look at the photos I took never mind share them with anyone! 😂

But I did save one though, which was of the climbable tree next to the bench that faced the sunlit open field. I thought it best to have at least one souvenir people could use to help conjure up a sense of the space I'd being inhabiting. X

Lovemaking in the Time of Covid-19

What we need more than anything right now is to be able to touch each other. A handshake, a pat on the back, a hug, a kiss, a fondle...

Contact with those we love and cherish in all its myriad forms. But for the foreseeable future such essential life-affirming intimacy is forbidden to us.

How then can we physically touch without making contact?

With BODYDOM

Imagine standing in a box room which is partitioned straight down the middle, ceiling to floor by a see-through synthetic membrane as delicate as spiders silk, as flexible as a Queen's Variety Performance contortionist, and as strong as an iron bar. You stand on one side of the room, gazing longingly through the transparent veil at your partner who stands on the other.

How good would it feel to be able to just walk up to your partner or the loved one Lockdown has kept you apart from for weeks, and simply embrace them knowing it was totally safe to do so?

The transparent sheath that at all times maintains a safe distance between you is so thin and so light that its presence is quickly forgotten, allowing those feelings of love, longing and gratitude that have been on hold for so long to flood forth without restraint.

I'm asking for £100,000 for a 1% equity stake in the company. 

Ewan Davis: Well, what a remarkable pitch! I'd never heard of the Wirral before, but I have now! Such chutzpah! 

The dragons, hands firmly gripping their 50k wads, prepare themselves for the inevitable bidding war...

Don't conserve what little you have during lockdown. Generate more.

When you're low on energy, low on morale, low on self-belief, just low in general....it might seem like the best strategy is to conserve what few resources you have left for those parts of yourself you think are the most important or valuable. 

But you only have to look at how the The Conservatives operate to realise why replicating their mistakes and applying austerity to our own bodies will never leave us feeling better.

You have to invest your resources into things which are real and here, now. Not promises of what you'll get in the future. You have to invest your resources in things which are natural but also feed everything else, making the pursuit of dreams and ambitions possible to begin with. Investing in the living environment around us in order to help it make more of itself to nourish others.