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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 7

Posted on 30/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

He has the feeling he’s staring back in time, or at another part of time. And, as he stares, the white, blown carcass of a moon-like fish – a tench – stares back from the reed bed, its ripped flesh … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 6

Posted on 29/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 5

Posted on 28/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

The river is within us, the sea is all about us      T.S. Eliot – The Dry Salvages Julie is one of the lost. Sitting on the train to West Kirby, alone and enveloped in her thoughts, as ever, … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 4

Posted on 27/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

So the lockdown continues and all my river wanderings must either come from memory or take place in the virtual world. My other daughter, the middle one of three, is self-isolating too. She is pregnant and has been advised that … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 3

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

So now, with my youngest daughter back from university, we have three of us at home under lockdown. But my wife, as a key NHS worker, still has to go out. Her patients need her, which is why she and … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 2

Posted on 25/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

When Boris Johnson evokes cod-Churchillian wartime metaphors in place of any semblance of wise leadership when formulating our national response to COVID-19 and Emmanuel Macron repeatedly declares that ‘we are at war’ with the virus, we know we’re in serious … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 1

Posted on 24/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

In that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past. Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude Rivers have always played an important part … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Week 4

Posted on 17/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

Watching the water flow past a bend in the river. The same place, the same time of day, every week for 52 weeks. A year in the life. Week 4 The shops are stripped of all essential goods, the streets … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Week 3

Posted on 10/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

Watching the water flow past a bend in the river. The same place, the same time of day, every week for 52 weeks. A year in the life. Week 3   A gloom of gathering cloud – I blink to … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Week 2

Posted on 03/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

Watching the water flow past a bend in the river. The same place, the same time of day, every week for 52 weeks. A year in the life. Week 2 The rain is steady and insistent. Underfoot the ground is … Continue reading →

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