19th Jan – A 19 year-old girl, just returned from 6 months abroad, told me her best moment was arriving in Istanbul at night and going into Hagia Sofia.\u00a0 I thought of the unlikelihood of me knowing what this was, except I’ve studied art history.<\/p>\n
20th Jan – A metallic violet Police ute drifted past me;\u00a0 number plate:\u00a0 RAPID 3.\u00a0 Its black and white checked stripe followed the lines of the ute, the back end of the stripe dissipating in the wind speed.<\/p>\n
21st Jan – A very British architect interviewed on radio said you have to tickle the boxes.\u00a0 For 3 seconds I imagined how I would tickle a box, before I understood he’d said tick all like tick’ll.<\/p>\n
22nd Jan – I was standing alone on the beach at 8.30 pm, the light almost gone.\u00a0 An adolescent boy rolled onto the sand in an electric wheelchair.\u00a0 For a few moments it was just him and me and the vast ocean.\u00a0 He did a u-turn and went back to the park behind the beach.<\/p>\n
23rd Jan – A distant relative rang after 9 years of silence and within seconds was asking me for help with French pronunciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
19th Jan – A 19 year-old girl, just returned from 6 months abroad, told me her best moment was arriving in Istanbul at night and going into Hagia Sofia.\u00a0 I thought of the unlikelihood of me knowing what this was, except I’ve studied art history. 20th Jan – A metallic violet Police ute drifted past … <\/p>\n