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Findings – Week 08

April 19, 2020
by Allysse Riordan BlogFindings

Findings - Week 08 Folk on Foot, Soundmarks, From up on Poppy Hill One of my aim for 2020 is to be more conscious of the time I spend reading/listening/watching new (to me) creative projects. I want to actively make time for other people's work a ...

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Day 1872

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 18

April 18, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

Heavy with cheese and dozy from the alcohol, we say our goodbyes and retire to the sofa. We put on a film and it isn’t long until I slumber on my partner lap, half asleep.

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Day 1772

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 17

April 17, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

For ten minutes, I get to know my neighbours a bit better. The short waves, the friendly smiles now extended to words and names exchanged. I want to help but I feel powerless. How do you help someone you do not know? How do you help someone who is healthy and secure but is finding it difficult to bear the mental weight of isolation?

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Day 1672

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 16

April 17, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

Walking is, in part, about not thinking. My body takes over and I am free to wonder and wander. There are boundaries that keep me safe. The pavement is not for cars, the red light will stop the bus. Those boundaries are gone and a walk now requires thoughts and analysis. There are cars to take into account but also cyclists, runners, and other pedestrians too.

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Day 1572

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 15

April 15, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

Today I have been feeling down. It’s not an overwhelming feeling, more of a presence hovering inside of me. It’s balanced on a thin line, about to collapse at any moment, break, and take over me. I pause every now and again and think about that feeling, that line. I imagine it stretched just right and I will the thing on it to keep balancing. And it does.

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Day 1472

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 14

April 14, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

I met J on the first week-end of February when we helped the local nature reserve volunteer group dig up saplings from the grass meadow. We hadn’t talk all that much. The work was solitary and she had to leave early. But we did figure out that we live in the same street. I knew her house by the cats surrounding it and the collection of teddy bears in the window.

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Day 11 to 1372

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 11 to 13

April 14, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

I roll over in bed and grumble at the sharp repeated note in the air. Who is taking so long to disable their alarm on a Saturday morning? The note carries on, shrill and loud. I turn on my back and listen closer to identify the culprit. It is not an alarm. It is a bird. I smile at my own stupidity. Of course it is a bird.

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Day 1072

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 10

April 10, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

It was exhausting to constantly calculate distances in my head, to stay fully alert to the world around me. I wanted to enjoy being back on the saddle. I wanted to feel the wind in my hair, the prickle of the early morning chill on my fingers. But I couldn’t let those sensations dominate.

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Day 0972

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 09

April 9, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

I can’t remember the last time I shot this camera. Now that I hold it I wonder why. It fits beautifully in my hands, its weight a comforting presence in my grasp. I open the back to load a roll of film and for a moment I’m lost. Was it at the top or at the bottom that the empty spool should go? I have to open the manual on my phone to find an answer.

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Day 0872

#LockdownDiary – One of many – Day 08

April 9, 2020
by Allysse Riordan #LockdownDiaryBlog

I apply hand sanitiser to the trolley handlebar, rub a drop more in my hands, step in line no further than the markings on the floor. I put on the face mask and enter in the shop at the guard’s order and try not to think about the stress rising in me.

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