Ian McMillan

Black swan at Wintersett by Steve Milner

Lovely coffee and chat with my artist mate Iain Nicholls at Luca’s Cafe in Wombwell. Here’s his skatepark!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Morning stroll soundtrack: this brilliant dramatisation of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Well worth hearing!

First cup of tea: it has one job. It does it well. Very well.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Early stroll soundtrack: great to hear Jumoke Fashola presenting ‘Round Midnight with a fine selection of tunes @bbcsounds.bsky.social

This morning the wind is unknotting the year from the tree, keeping what it needs and releasing the rest. Leaves are a gift. Branches are a gift. Time is a gift #poetry #morningwalk

Having a bad mental health day but research shows that making something can alter brain biochemistry for the better, so l’ve made a cabinet of curiosities/small museum in a tiny antique Cadbury’s cocoa powder tin. This DEFINITELY helped ✔️

#TrainsOnTuesday Machynlleth Station #aofoto

Morning Dan

Hope so

I carry the papers into the shop. I race to open the bundles before the shopkeeper passes me the scissors. I fail. The shopkeeper’s colleague says ‘Another day’ then shows me where she cut her finger slicing papaya. The shopkeeper wishes me luck as she gives me my lottery ticket.

Early stroll. The moon is earth’s reading light. I imagine sewing those fallen leaves into a shirt for Jack O’the Hedge. The emptiness of the empty house. A puddle in the shape of a diplodocus. Old footprints in old concrete.

Aye

Yes

Someone gave me the jam when I gave a talk to the Barnsley branch of Parkinson’s UK in April.

Love this song so much. Played it out my phone while walking along a canal in Montréal last weekend, and you would NEVER catch me playing a song out my phone EVER, not even at home.

Tie time to a stone Throw them high into the air Then watch how time flies

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#MaintenanceHoleMonday Sawston #aofoto

I meant quote not quite

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Yes indeed

I like the line from ‘America’ ‘And the moon rose over an open field’ as the ‘o’s in the line rise over the open field of poetry

I like this Billy Joel quite about Wichita Lineman: ‘Ultimately Wichita Lineman is about an ordinary man thinking extraordinary thoughts.’

Yes it was

Time for a home made scone with jostaberry jam.

Couple of books borrowed from Darfield Library today; so exciting to read work by writers I’ve not come across before!

Late stroll. A solitary sad brown leaf on the road ponders its life choices. The dark house looms silhouettily befront a dark sky. An ink-blotty shadow is a memory of words that never were. Two one-eyed bikes abreast appear to be a single creature wobbling towards me. @imcmillan.bsky.social

Yes, definitely

Aye

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Louie’s picture of Grandad and Noah

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Hope you had a tour of The plaque on Penistone station

Looking forward to this soon!

In Darfield Library

Please do!

Me too

Part of the ritual

On me list!

Just a joke I’ve been doing for years where I pretend he wrote it on various northern stations and people correct me often with photographic evidence. Harmless fun. It was Gilberdyke.

Yes it was. There’s a plaque

That’s where he wrote it

I did!

Wonderful rehearsal this morning! Come and see the show!

Here we go!

Me too!

Just a little joke I’ve been doing for years where I pretend he wrote it at various northern stations and people correct me. Harmless fun. It was Carlisle.

Passing through Shipley, where Paul Simon wrote Homeward Bound. There’s a plaque.