My Pictorial History (12) : Heather Lodge

Love, life & parties on the Whittinghame Estate

May 2007 – September 2009

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Hogmany 2008-09

My very first Conchord

My teeth in 2007

East Lothian

More acting – Edinburgh Fringe Festival – summer 2008

Northern Green Gathering 2007

Back at Heather Lodge – Logstock, 2009

Inside Heather Lodge

Milan Film Festival 2007 – trying something different

Nunraw

Some booty from my job doing the fences at T in the Park, Kinross

Taking Alibi to Yorkshire

My Pictorial History (11): Turnin’ Thirty

Photos from different periods between 2004 & 2006 – I turned 30 on the eleventh of June, 2006

SCOTLAND (2004-2006)

Skye

More Skye

Loch Lomond

Glen Coe

On Glen Coe with Glenda’s brother Mitch (far right) – his girlfriend (far left) & pal steve (bald head)

Glen Coe

With the rest of the Romes

Edinburgh

Glenda’s dad chairing a Burns Supper near Dumfries

The new band – a trio

Inside 14c Scotland Street

My first poems ever published – 2006

Partying with Kenny & Paul

Fending off the student loans company with the Statutes & Limitations Act (Scotland) 1974

The death of my grandmother, 2006

TUSCANY (May 2006)

Squatting an old pizza restaurant in Saltino…

… & being evicted

With a new admirer in Barga

Portovenere

With Andy & Analene – Cinque Terra

INDIA (September-October 2006)

Visiting Baldy, Kristian and Duggy in London on my way to India

I also did a little of the Camino de Santiago before flying to India

Bundi

Mount Abu

With Andaman Steve and the chief of Rajasthani police, Jaipur

SICILY (Nov 2006-Jan 2007)

Ferrywatching – Marettimo

Fiodo adopted me for my walks across Marettimo

Marettimo

On the slopes of Mount Etna – Jock is in the middle at the back

Marettimo

Etna from Enna

With the Romes on Enna

The only pictorial record of our two month stay in Malta: Jan-March 2007

My Pictorial History (10) : 2004

Stockholm

Early phone camera shots – on a journey between Stockholm & Tallin, 2004

From an Estonian travel brochure – Haapsalu

Early phone camera shots – Belfast, 2004

Early phone camera shots – With Glenda in Connemara 2004

I met Glenda at the Wickerman Festival, 2003 – this is early the next year in Edinburgh – she’s 31 here, I’m 27

My first visit to Calcata, near Rome, Spring 2004

Defending my squat with a section 5

Sending off Axis Allies to the upper echelons

My first trip to the Edinburgh Fringe festival – it was a Wednesday

Fighting for my squat

Axis and Allies – the first 700 tryptychs

The family schism

My Pictorial History (9): Bohemian

Finishing Axis and And Allies (for now) – June 2002

The onlt relic from my short stay in Leeds, Winter 2002-Spring 2003

I got a part – the black sailor – in A Tasse of Honey, Penrith Theatre, 2003

London 2004 – I had two squats to myself – Dorothy Road Clapham & Bulwer Court, Leytonstone

Some of the Gallery / 414 posse, Leytonstone

Inside Clapham Library

Sending off Axis and Allies to the powers that be

Partying with Nichola, my friend from Carlise who lived on Bulwer Court and found me the squat

Dorothy Road

Fighting my Dorothy Road eviction – Battersea and Chelsea housing associations had merged, but the title deeds didnt have that new name, winning me a couple more months

I had a job as as as a steward – Chelsea and Fulham games

Pay what you like theatre in Battersea on Tuesdays) – it would take the Edinburgh Fringe a few years to catch up with the idea

The legal Kevlar armour of the Section 5 – pinned on the doors of my squats

My London band – Armitage Shanks – I thought wed get free advertsing everytie people went to the toilet until I found out someone was already using the name)

Parting with Charlie in London – a Clitheroe lad moved to the capital who sorted me out lets say

Magic Mushrrom Shaman

One of my girlfriends from the London period (there was a few – I was 27)

On getting kicked out of my squats it was off to Italy –

My sketch of Ostia, near Rome

My Pictorial History (8): Epic Poet

With my gran, late 2000

I began work on Axis & Allies in Royal Tunbridge Wells, early 2001

Stevie Vickers AKA Victor Pope, from Barnsley College, one of my flatmates in Tunbridge Wells

Revisiting the Tunbridge Wells bookshop in 2019 where I used to buy books to fuel my epic

In my flat at 34B Camden Road, with Duggie from South Africa

A profile of DBB done by Kate, early 2001

The poem wasn’t always called Axis & Allies

Meeting up with Kate & Gran in Brighton, 2001

Mi mum & mi gran in London, 2001

Squeezing 9-11 into my epic poem began the process of making it VERY epic – October 2001

On Monte Cassino, Italy

On my return from Italy I began seeing Alice in Tunbridge Wells 

Being overpaid by TW council funded my European composition trips then my journey to India – I think it was the Muses work

Thiruvalluvar statue at Kanyakamari- I would soon begin transcreation his Thirukural

At the feet of Thiruvalluvar 2013)

The copy of Thirukural I picked up in Madurai

On the boat to the Andaman Islands – Duncan R) Jimmy Van de Mer R)

Jimmy Van de Mer r(ight) on the Andaman Islands

Phil, Kate & Steve

My Pictorial History (7) : Brighton

 

My Brighton band – Chris Baldy from Barnsley College was on guitar

My favorite walk was the Brighton to Lewes over the Downs hike & back – the photo is looking back on Brighton

Descending into Lewes with Emily, 2019

My trainjumping map for 2000 – I was approaching the peak of my UK skillset

My Brighton girlfriend, Kate, in the bath

With gran & best mate Nick, summer 2000

The evolution of Testamundi Imperatrix, my Keatsian ode to the British empire, composed in Brighton 1999-2000

Getting caught shoplifting red wine in Brighton

My trip to Provence & the start of Axis & Allies, May 2000

My trip to the Waterloo battlefield, June 2000 – at the end of the month I moved on from Brighton

My Pictorial History (6) – The Sable Rose

Visiting my unofficial godson in London in 1998, Adam, son of Nichola & Lee, fans of Sphere, my Carlisle band

Tim & Alison – a couple who befriended me in Portsmouth, 1998-1999

A portrait of me by Alison

Alison

Odd Job Man – Portsmouth

Jamming with Pete & Tim

Tim getting caught fare evading in Portsmouth

First class fare evader

Working on THE SABLE ROSE – my first ever major poem – a 140-strong sonnet sequence

Busking in Chichester

One of the pictorial images Tim & Alison created for my sonnets

My handwritten, mud-coated line-up for Glastonbury 1998

Burnley 1 Blackpool 0 – 28/11/98 – from a poem published in the Burnley Express

Sonnetically remembering a trip from Burnley to Amsterdam with the lads in 1998

My Pictorial History (5) : The Death of Shelley

My first proper poem…

Me at 21

My travle kit – for my first ever adventure abroad

My notebook for the poem – bought in Florence

I begaqn composing the poem in Florence

In Pisa – 2017

Byrons grottto, Portovenere, 2012

The clifftop wher mu soul fused with poetry

The Norman church, Portovenere

Viareggio – the beach where Shelley’s bopdy was washed up

In Rome 2011

The Forte Prenestina in Ropme – my base for the final stanzas

At the fort in 2018

Insdide the fort in 2018 with Michael Beeson

Revisiting Shelley’s grave, 2009

The grave of Keats – the Protestant Cemetery, Rome

Revisiting Shelley’s grave, 2017

My Pictorial History 4: Acid Daze

One of numerous psychedelic sketches & drawings made in 1996 – a year drench’d in LSD

My ‘contacts’ list in the days before mobile phones

Off to uni & a Popular Music Studies BA at Barnsley – I moved into 66 Sackville Street – my room was in the attic room above facing the street in the photo

Me & Chris Baldy – Kula Shaker is probably on in the background – one of my paintings in the bottom left corner (all are now lost)

Forge FM in Sheffield: I used to DJ/MC a late night weekend slot after partying hard

Weekend ‘Wind-Up’ & ‘Wind-Down’ – inbetween was the rave around Sheffield

 

With Ian, Baldy, & bending down comedienne & Fringe Star Eleanor Conway – I’m dressed up as the Magic Mushroom Shaman

My Pictorial History 3: Carlisle

1993

My first girlfriend, Jane Holdworth, with my beloved Grandma Joan, c.1993

With Jane, best mate Nicky & a load of Jane’s pals, Newquay 1994

After Janes dad got a job teaching in Sanqhuar, we set up home in a bedsit together late ’94 – flat 6, 6 Chatsworth Square – from where we attended Carlilse College

One of my earliest paintings

By Eli

My band, Sphere – top left author, David Mark, top right famous online music teacher Scott Devine

A young Byran Dick, future actor, in the audience

After the gig