Emma Payne

Ugh yes I hate this. So dismissive - as if anything that isn’t glum realism or about a serial killer is somehow twee & for children

Misty main sands

Tidal pool & harbour arm

Margate in the mist

That rhythm is so distinctive - I think it’s a certain kind of US journalese mixed with mildly dated ad copy. Makes sense considering what it’s hoovered up. Of course soon humans will write like that because they read so much of it

Chelsea Creek pictured in the early morning mist. Lot’s Road power station on the left, Chelsea Harbour apartments on the right. The tide has gone out below revealing the muddy depths.

Chelsea Houseboats approaching Cheyne Pier. Multi-coloured, the high rise apartments behind them shrouded in Thames mist. In the foreground, the mud of the foreshore at low tide.

The V-shaped Saxon fish trap at Chelsea, seen at low tide. Thames kayakers on the river in the background just appearing from under Battersea Bridge.

Another view of the V-shaped Saxon fish trap at Chelsea, upstream of Battersea Bridge. Still misty this morning, the sun had not yet appeared to burn off the cloud cover.

Distracting myself from *waves in the general direction of everything* by a stroll to Chelsea Creek and Foreshore to check on the wondrous Saxon fish trap. V-shaped, carbon dated to the reign of King Offa, 757- 796 CE. It’s comforting amid the madness to think how well this structure has survived.

Look forward to Trump & Vance sitting in Zelensky’s office being told to say thank you

This includes things like poems in anthologies, radio sketches etc - things you wouldn’t expect to make anything from add up if someone keeps an eye on them year after year

Confused by the reviews of this film, which seem to be either ‘life-affirming!’ or ‘too sentimental!’ Can’t see it’s either unless you’ve forgotten the beginning by the end. More ‘sad & frightening’. ‘Bittersweet’ at most surely

Enjoyed Life of Chuck. Especially finally realising the grandmother is played by the girl from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

I see this with so many men & I don’t understand it. Their wives will be signing up for classes & doing hundreds of hobbies & they just won’t. I think it might be something to do with feeling that having to learn to do something is somehow humiliating?

Hope this is enough of a kick in the balls for Labour to notice that constantly chasing Reform voters & just assuming centre & left people have to vote for them is a bad idea

This bird has had just about enough of your nonsense thank you

Watching Douglas Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession. Absolutely deranged

Yep MRIs & tilt table are the worst! Actually a VQ scan was the worst. Maybe I need to try EMDR - did it work?

I had this. Terrifying, that feeling of having to deliberately inflate & empty your lungs until they get going again. It somehow left me with really bad claustrophobia because of the memory of struggling to breathe

Why can’t cinemas show cartoons & then an exciting melodrama like the one in Brief Encounter? I would go all the time

This man needs to spend some time in an iron lung. Ideally the rest of his life

If someone could just explain why sometimes it feels as if my blood has been replaced with battery acid that would be a start

Argh back to aching all over in every single cell for no obvious reason at all, fuck long Covid

Fascinating how you barely need to break stride until 1600, & it’s pretty much comprehensible until 1200 when suddenly I’m lost

It’s so disappointing, though as you say unsurprising. The bit about people stopping talking about it is definitely true - I’ve had it for 6 years & used to tell everyone but now I’m fairly cautious about mentioning it. People just don’t seem receptive even if not openly sceptical

What do we do with our flags? Half mast? Are medals worn? Really rusty on my Royal Arrest Protocol

It’s just such a refreshing feeling to see an arrogant entitled prick experiencing consequences

Busy day at the Tower of London. Emergency clear out. Cells probably full of cardboard boxes, unused exercise bikes etc

Seems an excessive punishment to the other prisoners though

Should think it will be at His Majesty’s Pleasure, solves all their problems with his housing

They’ve got to have arrested him on his birthday deliberately surely. Perhaps as a treat for the rest of us after all the miserable rain recently

Pancake Day bringing out the American British food comments agaiiiiiiiiin 💀💀

It’s so expensive! But possible reduction of dementia risk makes it seem like it might be pretty well spent

Take EVERY NHS VACCINE when it is offered is a pretty basic & reliable rule. Here’s me trying to work out if I can afford to fork out for the shingles jab since I’m not eligible for years & people are turning down free ones. Idiots

‘I wanted to get my children vaccinated in a more bespoke, special, private way so I have left them unprotected from measles’ Jesus christ, well done ‘vegan mums’ you absolute morons