September 2020
This was perhaps the hardest month to choose favourite photos, as I took many more than 12 that I am proud of. Which is particularly impressive as I spent the first 2 weeks confined to the boundaries of my mother’s house. Being a responsible and law-abiding citizen was not fun but I am grateful to the garden and to Dom, Verity, Masha and Emily for the doorstep visits. The up side was that I finally cleared my childhood bedroom and streamlined all of my possessions to fit inside my bed and the garden shed, leaving me floating out of quarantine as light as a feather.
I said farewell to London doing my favourite things such as seeing art in private galleries and in one instance clearly somebody’s private home and eating delicious food in Chinatown and farewell to the UK with a romantic weekend pursuing vampires in Whitby and family and good food in Leeds and York. There were dramatic incidences of car failure and the kindness of many different Northern men. I left for Amsterdam, where there was open bars and great art and friendly cats and my beloved family. September was a good month for me.
top film: the incredibly hard to find 1989 BBC made-for-television film adaptation of The Woman In Black that Kellie hunted down on the internet for me - not because it was very good but because I watched it in bed with a doughnut in a hotel in Whitby on a Dracula pilgrimage weekend away with my extremely sexy girlfriend before I moved to Berlin, and at that moment felt a rare certainty that 15 year old me would be thrilled with how her life had turned out
top book: The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
top theatre: my friend Masha took me out to The Bridge to see socially distanced Alan Bennett starring Kristen Scott Thomas and it was exactly what I wanted
top art: photographer Alec Soth’s series i know how furiously your heart is beating in tandem with Johnny Pitt’s Afropean at Foam Gallery in Amsterdam, my all-time fave