1. Jane Roberts said, in some of her books, that time present is time past is time future. 2. It’s a point of view I subscribe to. 3. My grandparents’ longcase clock, a dark brown wooden-cased Victorian beauty with an enchanting ivory face, disagreed with me and marked linear time all day and night long, ticking off the seconds one by one in the cold … Continue reading Timing

Of all your designs, this is the one I loved the most – the foundry-boot-tap-shoe fusion. Polished applewood soles, percussive silvery blakeys tapping tempos, all fake flamenco and Flateley rhythms. Brass tack-spangled, red-laced, copper-capped. Useless in a foundry they’d let the hot metal sluice in through the eyelets, burn to the bone, but for dancing they were perfect, with their heavy weight swing, clear wooden … Continue reading Re-boot