october round up
I feel FINE that this is a week late because other than the fact that no one really reads it I did manage to hit all my other deadlines this week, of which there were many. I have had two glorious branding projects in at the same time and some very exciting clients. Just when I had decided to find a full time job. What is the universe telling me?
Read:
Joan by Katherine J Chen
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Under The Same Stars by Alexandra Hemingsley
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Sunburn is a brilliantly written sapphic coming of age story set in small town 90’s (this is the theme this month) Ireland. The way it describes all the anxiety and despair of first love is a stab in the heart. Brilliantly edited and beautifully put together. I am really looking forward to what Chloe Michelle Howarth does next.
As the memories of Demon Copperhead faded away I found myself knee deep in another 90’s poverty stricken, definitely neglectful, at times abusive boys childhood. This time Young Mungo, growing up in the tenements of East End Glasgow. Different continent, similar sweet hearted boy, a struggle to survive. Just so beautiful and unputtdownable.
Eat: I went for dinner at Bonsai Plant Kitchen and I am far from vegan but it was one of the best dinners I have eaten in a long time. If you are in Brighton I highly recommend.
Play: The kids and I headed to the beautiful Fforest in Cardigan Wales for half term. We walked, we pumpkin carved, we ate, we gazed into the fire, we sauna-ed and cold plunged, we chatted and me and the other mums drank a lot of tea. It was stunning, full of rainbows and I miss the granola (and having a prepared breakfast every morning) very very much.
Obsess: I found myself getting sucked into the topic of the Opioid Crisis in America. It all started with Demon Copperhead as I keep mentioning, then I found myself watching A Good Person on the plane back from Canada, I followed this with the series Dopesick and then at the recommendation of a good friend Nan Goldin’s All The Beauty & The Bloodshed. This documentary, like Dopesick, details the Sackler family who are worth over 13 billion dollars, made primarily through their pharmaceutical company Perdue Pharma. They have somehow hidden behind their wealth and none of them have taken responsibility for the millions of deaths Oxycontin has caused. If I needed a validation for not moving to the US when we got our Green Cards, this was it.
Recommend: Gone Fishing is back for it’s sixth season. If you are in the words of Katherine May Wintering and you need to be in bed and want something soothing, this is it. Comedians, chat about mortality, glorious green British nature shots, Bob falling over. It’s perfect.
Treat: See play!
Until next time x
