Creative Accounting

Shelagh Delaney = Joe Orton + John Osborne

proto-Joe

John Osborne's Look Back in Anger 1956
Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey 1958
 Joe Orton's Loot 1966

Starspot #446

Clare Short - politician
Trafalgar Studios

Star Spot No. 445

17/9/19
Robert Peston
Portland Place

Star Spot No. 556

Stephen Rea, actor
Malahide New Street
9/9/19

Star Spot No. 144

James O'Brien
Talk radio presenter
London Bridge 31/8/19

Coincidence

13/8/19 Donegal

I am sitting at The Rusty Mackerel pub in Teelin, Donegal. The woman beside me (a fellow painter on my course in Glencolmcille) is from Ballymena. I mention the recent indiscretion by Ballymena's finest son. She knows I am talking about Liam Neeson. She gives her view on his bizarre comments about taking revenge on a black man when promoting his last film. I tell her about when I met him in Kilburn.

I am sitting on Teelin pier an hour later. I open my new copy of Brian Friel's Translations bought the other day in Donegal Town. At the front is the cast list of the original 1980 production in Guildhall, Derry (where I was married). Doalty was played by a young Liam Neeson, early in his career.

Glencolmcille 8/19

10/8/19 Sat
Golders Green-Stanstead-Derry Loganair jet
(day of Apprentices March)
Derry - Donegal Town bus
Donegal Town to Glencolmcille little bus
Mairin Kelly
Irish College Oideas Gael

11 Sun
Glencolmcille tra
Teac The folk park
Initial painting class Colm Mcintyre
Recce Malin Beg
small harbour
first watercolour

12 Mon
roof watercolor
lunch Micki folk teahouse
outdoor painting Port in rain
Killybegs fish & chips
Carrick pub

13 Tues
@

Re: Cornwall - summer 2019

Thurs 1 Aug St Agnes

swim w N

beach St Agnes

drink with Alli

starry night chat with N

Fri 2 St Agnes - Truro - Falmouth

boat down Rivers Truro & Fal

Falmouth

evening swim St Agnes

Sat 3 St Agnes to St Ives

sea kayaking St Agnes

train from Truro to St Ives

wander around St Ives

tapas & beer at Tate beach

reading & sax at harbour view

dinner at Porthminster beach

Sun 4 St Ives

Richard Burton museum

Tate St Ives

Barbara Hepworth house w N

Portminster beach

Mon 5 St Ives to London

Portminster beach 

END

On 1 Aug 2019, at 12:02, Adam Gee <adam@arkangel.co.uk> wrote:

Mon 29 Jul
🚌 to Newquay
Fistral beach
Seaspray

to St Agnes

Tue 30 Jul

working on IOC looking out to sea & storm

cliff-top walk E

Finisterre HQ

walk towards cliff W - beautiful sunset, beautiful woman w short hair

Wed 31 Jul

walk St Agnes to Porthtowan along cliffs

via Wheal Coates tin mine

🚌 to Truro 

2nd hand bookshop Just Books

Truro Cathedral

Victoria Gardens

collect Noah

sunset beach Trevaunance Cove

Thurs 1 Aug

swim w N

beach St Agnes

On 29 Jul 2019, at 13:54, Adam Gee <adam@arkangel.co.uk> wrote:

Sat 27 Jul

🚂 Paddington to Truro train
🚌 Truro to St Agnes bus
Driftwood Spars BnB
Swim Trevaunance Cove 🌊
Mussels
Night beach

Sun 28 Jul

St Agnes
Smoked haddock, poached egg
Cliff-top walk - mine chimneys
Swim 🌊
Cerviche
St Agnes village - St Agnes museum
Swim 🌊
Lucy & Joya
Whitebait
Poldark in bed

Mon 29 Jul
🚌 to Newquay
Fistral beach
Seaspray
...

Re: Cornwall - summer 2019

Mon 29 Jul
🚌 to Newquay
Fistral beach
Seaspray

to St Agnes

Tue 30 Jul

working on IOC looking out to sea & storm

cliff-top walk E

Finisterre HQ

walk towards cliff W - beautiful sunset, beautiful woman w short hair

Wed 31 Jul

walk St Agnes to Porthtowan along cliffs

via Wheal Coates tin mine

🚌 to Truro 

2nd hand bookshop Just Books

Truro Cathedral

Victoria Gardens

collect Noah

sunset beach Trevaunance Cove

Thurs 1 Aug

swim w N

beach St Agnes

On 29 Jul 2019, at 13:54, Adam Gee <adam@arkangel.co.uk> wrote:

Sat 27 Jul

🚂 Paddington to Truro train
🚌 Truro to St Agnes bus
Driftwood Spars BnB
Swim Trevaunance Cove 🌊
Mussels
Night beach

Sun 28 Jul

St Agnes
Smoked haddock, poached egg
Cliff-top walk - mine chimneys
Swim 🌊
Cerviche
St Agnes village - St Agnes museum
Swim 🌊
Lucy & Joya
Whitebait
Poldark in bed

Mon 29 Jul
🚌 to Newquay
Fistral beach
Seaspray
...

Cornwall - summer 2019

Sat 27 Aug

🚂 Paddington to Truro train
🚌 Truro to St Agnes bus
Driftwood Spars BnB
Swim Trevaunance Cove 🌊
Mussels
Night beach

Sun 28 Aug

St Agnes
Smoked haddock, poached egg
Cliff-top walk - mine chimneys
Swim 🌊
Cerviche
St Agnes village - St Agnes museum
Swim 🌊
Lucy & Joya
Whitebait
Poldark in bed

Mon 29 Aug
🚌 to Newquay
Fistral beach
Seaspray

Star Spots - May/June 2019

11/6 Chris Evans - Endell St

16/6 Sandi Toksvig - Cafe Rouge, Highgate

18/6 Festival Hall
Alex Jennings
David Dimbleby
Paul Gambaccini
Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen

Israel 5

Wed 5th June

Ashkelon
- sea swim
to Tel Aviv - Kfra Saba
- Dalit & 2 daughters
to Petach Tiqva
- Ronen
to Hod Hasharon
- Jaffa & family

Thurs 6th - Dora Gee's birthday

Petach Tiqva - Ronen
Tel Aviv port - breakfast
Tel Aviv beach - walk R & N

to Ben Gurion
to Luton

Israel 4

4/6/19
Ashkelon
- sea swim
Sderot
- meeting Ricardo
Sderot to Beersheva
- train museum
- old town
- Lola's
Ashkelon

Israel 3

Mon 2/6/19

Ashkelon to Sderot
- meeting with Sapir
Sderot to Jerusalem (solo drive with music)
- route 1 into Jerusalem (remains of armoured vehicles)
Jerusalem, near Old City
West Bank
St Saba monastery with Adam Z & N at sundown
edge of Judean desert
dinner at old Railway Station
Jerusalem to Ashkelon night drive

Israel 2

Sun 2/6/19

Ashkelon
Yad Mordechai kibbutz
- cemetery & closed museum
Sderot
- cinematek
- Cinema South Film Festival
- screening students' films
- hummous/falafel restaurant
- opening film premiere Mosad

Mon 3/6

Ashkelon
- swim

Ashkelon trip 1

Fri 31/5/19

Luton to Tel Aviv
(Deneese pearlmn michael c)
Evening drive to Caesaria - C's
(Cecelia, Shea) N reunion

Sat 1/6
Caesaria
Reading in garden, early morning (Biggie)
Caesaria aqueduct to port walk - C & N
Caesaria to Ashkelon
Regina Goren
Archie's dinner
Scubar - Champions League final Spurs v Liverpool

Star Spot No. 572

John Simm - Marylebone/Harley St 21/1/19

Star Spot No. 567

Mary Beard - Hampstead tube

Star Spot No. 556

Gillian Anderson - Fischers, Marylebone 10/4/19

Story Snippet

I find myself sitting next to Sissel on the six-hour train journey from Trondheim to Oslo. She is an elegant elderly lady with a wicked laugh. She is a native of Trondheim who used to be the projectionist at the Cinemateket where I delivered my lecture on Thursday. She is on her way to Oslo airport to head for Berlin, her first visit there since 1977. The last time she went she tried to call David Bowie and Iggy Pop. She found the phone number of their flat under James Osterberg in the phone book. She rang but a woman answered and said they were out.

Norway - April 2019

Wednesday 3rd April 

• Abram Games blue plaque unveiling, The Vale, London NW11
• LHR-Oslo-Trondheim

Thursday 4th April

• TRONDHEIM
• Dromedar cafe
• Delivered lecture at Cinemateket
• Workshop at Isak cultural centre
• Walk with Line - cathedral, Bakklandet (old working class quarter)
• Cinemateket - Brief Encounter
• Svartlamoen with Line - hippy area & great bar (Lars & Kay & Kristin)

Friday 5th April

• TRONDHEIM
• Breakfast at Scandia hotel
• Walk through Bakklandet & back lanes
• Workshop at Isak cultural centre
• Podcast recording with Audun
• Walk to shore of Trondheim Fjord
• Walk back to Bakklandet for dinner (Folk & Fe)
• Sunset by river app. cathedral

Creative Accounting No. 488

New Order / Bernard Sumner = The Cure / Robert Smith

Creative Accounting No. 366

PJ Harvey = Patti Smith + Kate Bush + Cher

Star Spots No.s 667 & 668

Matt Smith - Waldorf Hotel, The Strand

Jennifer Saunders - Noel Coward Theatre

Star Spot No. 766

Jeremy Irons & Sinead Cusack 30/1/19 Barbican after party

Trevor McDonald, Charlie Brooker
6/2/19 Broadcast awards, Grosvenor Ho.

Star Spot No. 238

John Simm - actor
near Harley St
21/1/19

Star Spot No.566

Simon Callow - Highgate high st.

Story snippet

Brian works in our excellent local second-hand bookshop. I was in there the other day and bought a slim volume about the 60s by Jenny Diski. This prompted me to ask Brian where he was in the 60s. He told me that for one year he was in Vietnam. He had been conscripted from his home in Texas and found himself in the mobile air corps, buzzing around in helicopters. When I asked him whether he'd found himself in the front line he explained that while serving on the choppers, he jumped off one day as they were landing and his glasses fell off, got lost. At this point they moved him to an admin job because unusually he could type. It took them a long time to replace the glasses, they had to fly them in from Japan.

When Brian got back from Vietnam after the standard year (half a year for officers) there was a GI Bill which enabled him to go to university in Texas, in Austin, where he studied history. It also enabled him to come to London in 1972 to do his Masters, at LSE I think. He's been here ever since.

He also told me that he recently got his UK citizenship at a ceremony in Islington town Hall. He was impressed by the lady Mayor who helped make a real event out of it.

Star Spot No. 337

Mandy Patinkin - Saul from Homeland
Parliament Hill

Mouse moment

I am sitting on a bench outside Kenwood house, slightly set back from the sandy path. An Irish woman appears beside the man and woman sitting just forward and left of me. She is exclaiming about a mouse she has just seen, along the benches to the left which are out of my sightlines. She hates mice, she tells the couple on the bench (I don't think she knows them). Then her husband appears at her side. He looks like a cartoon mouse. Big front teeth. Long nose. Thin face. A cap right out of the Aristocats. The man of thr bench couple surmises that it was perhaps her bright red shoes which attracted the mouse. She said she had seen a rat at her feet at the nearby cafe once. "Perhaps it's a baby rat" she muses. "No, it's a mouse" says the mouse husband.

2019

First music of the year 🎶 U2 - New Year's Day

First food of the year 🍉 raspberry

First viewing of the year 🎥 scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody