Savour - savourites #49
This is savourites, my Friday dispatch of notes from the week, along with recommendations of things to read, eat and generally indulge in. Subscribe to read the rest. Last week I wrote about longing for a bike ride through a park in the minutes before it closed. Last night I got one! Big skies, sun a milky orange blob behind me, drifts of lime pollen by the curb side. I’d just given my first book talk since the baby arrived and I was giddy on it, letting the peddles spin beneath my feet as I rode down the hill. As I described in Rootbound, nearly seven years ago I turned up to Brockwell Park Community Glasshouses for my first volunteer shift. It was November, and it was drizzling, and I spent a couple of hours unearthing couch grass from a sloping plot of boggy clay. Now, there is a perennial meadow on that land and it’s this meadow that the new Brockwell Barn faces. It felt fitting to make a kind of public return here. The hall was full, the crowd generous. I signed books and spoke to people and after a day of being grizzled at and lightly vomited on by the baby I was reminded that my mind and body had other functions. I’ve not entirely stopped working since C arrived. I’ve slowed down. I’ve said no to things, and plain ignored others. I think I am more firm in my boundaries than I was before he existed. But it’s strange to navigate this time of doing both when I feel, societally, I should be giving all of myself to him. Earlier this week a friend managed to explain it in a way I had been struggling to: that this time is rare and short and precious, and that in writing I am able to preserve it in a small way. I appreciated that. As I type this C is by my feet in his basket, gurgling, the windows he loves to stare at reflected in the deep, shining blue of his eyes. Other good things from this week:... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to savour to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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Key phrases
Older messages
rekindling
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
on old friends
#savourites 48: comeback special
Friday, May 12, 2023
seven weeks of a whole new kind of life
yearling
Friday, May 12, 2023
on anniversaries
savourites #47: indira birnie takeover
Friday, May 5, 2023
brothy beans | the freedom of being cringe | birdwatching
lover
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
you should've come over
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