99...

I'm on 99designs.com, a great site to pick up new briefs, expand your portfolio and get some feedback. Here is a design I submitted for a German kindergarten who was looking for a fresh, funky design for the children to wear.

Last night...

Mum took me along to what we thought was a poetry reading, in Helpston, to the cottage of John Clare, no less. £5, including a glass of wine, not bad. When we arrived with two friends, and spied the pieces of paper and pencils strewn about on tables, we quickly realised this was not going to be a sit-back-and-listen sort of evening. The poet cheerfully explained that to celebrate the launch of her new collection it would be more fun if we all wrote our own poems instead of listening to hers.

I've not written poetry since I was a kid, but the evening was so great, I felt like something long dormant inside had been woken up again. Now I think I have an idea for that lined notebook Karen bought me.

Poolpardon

Poolpardon's legs stretch outwards

Bones crack, soothed by shaded grass

The nodding off heads of cottages

Sit in the road

Smoothing over

New ideas

The chaos is not far off

But no bustle for us, no din.

We're scared of being swallowed.