One Night Stanzas

ONS was gone for a while, you may have noticed. It was the end of term, my camera broke, I went to London for a while, I’m about to move house and am packing box after box after box. It’s also Refugee Week, which means I have been on the road with the Making It Home posse, attending screenings of our films, speaking on panels and reading poems. All extremely exciting! I’ve also been blogging elsewhere — I’m the F Word’s guest blogger for June, so I’ve been kinda cheating on ONS a little. But I have finally had chance to sit down for two seconds and share with you some of the sweet sights from the past couple of weeks.

The Making It Home gang visited our partners media co-op in their lovely offices at Templeton in Glasgow — yep, they’re based in that building up there (fanciest former carpet factory I’ve ever seen)! Our lovely filmmaking co-ordinators Vilte and Catherine handed out flowers for everyone after we watched the rough cuts of our films.

On a visit home I helped (well OK, watched) my sister, the craftiest of craftmistresses, make a rainbow-tastic button-covered waistcoat for a fancy dress day at Hobbycraft, where she works her magic. She also made me a fancy bonnet out of yellow cellophane.

As always, Edinburgh was being totally fabulous, and being away in London only made me appreciate it more. Moody skies, cherry trees like candyfloss, punctuation marks on the sides of buildings.

The Making It Home tour did a gig in Glasgow, though it was too dark in the venue for me to take any decent photos. However, I did see pink flamingos, hang out under fairylights, and take a silly public bathroom self portrait.

And yeah, of course, I ate some tasty food. Vegan sweet potato pancakes, made by Lovely Boyfriend of course; and courgette and mint soup with a tofu wurst sandwich, courtesy of Saramago. (That bright orange typewriter, by the way? It’s a resoration/upcycle project I’m working on. When it’s done, there’ll be a post.)

What are YOU loving this week?

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You may have noticed that ONS took a little hiatus there. Life got kind of crazy for a while… and not necessarily in a good way. BUT, some good stuff did happen to me between 14th February and now, so in true TiLT style, I’m going to say, Thanks, Universe.

Oslo was awesome

In our February half-term holiday, Lovely Boyfriend and I visited Oslo. It was very cold, very snowy, but also amazing:

I made it home

The wonderful Making It Home Project moved into a new phase. The inspiring women I’m working with have now moved through storyboarding and will, very soon, begin to actually film their scripts. You can find out more about the project on the Making It Home website.

There were birthdays

Lots of birthdays — one of them was mine! 27 whole years young.

Edinburgh and I hung out a lot

& Barcelona was beautiful

During the Easter holiday, Lovely Boyfriend whisked me off to Barcelona for a much-needed break. I was so happy to go back there again, almost exactly one year on!

It’s good to be back, folks.

What are YOU loving this week?

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