| 01/04/05: I floated in a witches's cauldron all
morning; among boiled brains and machine membranes. I managed to
cling to a bouquet of flowers thrown in by a passing cortege. I eventually
knitted a ladder from metallic worms and reached a shelf of plastic monster
models from which hung a luminous skeleton found in an otherwise empty
packet. I would focus on this when falling to sleep.
June got the groceries - I hope to make a working aeroplane from the discarded wrappings. I found my dinner cast up on the beach; I put
a light bulb on my head and lit up.
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| 02/04/05: A busy day, spent mostly in an upturned
hat. I was hoping that the ladder which was hanging over my head
would descend so I could escape; but the string wouldn't break. I
finally pulled a pair of scissors from my ear and cut the rope. My
ear became a fruit bush to commemorate the event.
While travelling in a transparent tunnel, miles above ground, I remembered how to turn six into nine. Unfortunately the leader of the band had to leave early or I would have sung myself a song. Incidentally, I was told in a dream how to keep snakes in a handbag - the handbag is on a turntable and revolves three times a minute. |
| 03/04/05: I accidentally locked myself in the
castle tower and then made a working model of the universe from bird feathers.
The feathers had floated down from a passing Greek God - now old and decrepid.
I eventually made a door; but didn't have the time to make a wall to fit
it in.
When I finally escaped from the tower - having hid in a hanging basket which is winched down every night for watering - I stumbled into a garden planted entirely of eggs; hard boiled and fried. I answered the telephone and spoke to myself. |
| 04/04/05: I hung an exhibition of pictures of
the inside of my head. The exhibition was in a brightly lit room;
however, in an instant two bulbs had blown - looking like the eyes in a
sheep skull. If I had stayed any longer the room would have gone
dark.
I came home on a motorised pogo stick; hitting my head repeatedly on the underpass roof. When I arrived I became a cloud and floated over the town which, I hadn't realised before, was laid out on a snooker table. I pulled a game of scrabble from my pocket and invented a word. |
| 05/04/05: While standing in the crematorium I
found a story on a piece of paper being blown in the breeze. It concerned
a superhero that could never stop running - He just got faster.
I had to spend some time looking over empty fields so I placed a coffin in a small purpose built church and blew it up. There would be a large screen slow motion replay. I walked back to the car, which had been stretched to several hundred yards long; there was a girl standing alone - I knew instantly that she came from a far distant space. |
| 06/04/05: I woke, walked from one box into another
box, discarded the wrappings and found the very small object which was
left behind. In the afternoon, I found myself in a very large box
indeed; this was gradually getting darker. I had smuggled in candles
disquised as sweets but the light cast shadows that evolved into independent
beings - who soon got fed up and left.
On walking home I pictured a silent call floating over the town like a third moon. I had previously invented an artificial moon that hung over the garden and howled at dogs - the patent is pending. I opened the door and found a ship anchored in the living room. |
| 07/04/05: I spent some time as a bush in the
country. On returning to normality I sat in my studio; which had
become a cathedral.
I made a working model of a woman from parts of an old crane and turned my library into a bridge; across which I went to collect free range eggs before the local youths used them in seige catapults. They have been surrounding a house on broomsticks for some time. I am not worried as I know it can cast off it's clothes and fly if need be. The snail on the smoking pipe in the garden had a bungalow on it's back. I put out some modest sized houses for the birds. |
| 08/04/05: In the morning I rowed a house down
the rapids in lieu of a canoe. I managed to grab hold of a tree that
had bent down to take a drink, just before it went over the waterfall.
The giant eye in a passing cloud winked.
An afternoon in my studio, where I made a copy of the Venus de Milo from frog spawn, and an evening in the Lions Den with David. We didn't have time to talk but exchanged arcane truths using sign language. At home, I ate salad from a casserole dish and watched fish swim in a deserted television set. |
| 09/04/05: A busy day inside a cheap plastic toy
which turned all conversation into bee like buzzing noises. I felt
strangely embarrassed when a pair of lips came in to photocopy a smile.
I pressed dead leaves on a glass and made the three witches from Macbeth.
Of some concern was the black marks that suddenly appeared on all shiny
white surfaces. I brushed the pavement all the way home.
We went out for a meal in the evening. June sat under a saucepan of stars while I sat on a compost heap and drunk beer with a straw. While hanging from the curtains at the end of the day I heard voices from the past. |
| 10/04/05: A hot day in the garden. The
dog continually ran circles round the head that emerged in the middle of
a bramble patch. I flung in Brer Rabbit and pulled out a giant woollen
caterpillar which I could use as a sleeping bag. The head had a desert
on it's back so I took care to plant an oasis before I sat down.
I was expecting rain to descend several clear plasic pipes I had planted in the garden. However, a strange coloured liquid rose up instead. I decided this was some kind of sermon so I hummed a tune - as did the dog. I went down the road pulling a cheese pie in a
weather sock. I knew which way the wind was blowing before I entered
the building. This was heated even though it was very hot outside.
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| 11/04/05: The Ion Man had a totally free day;
the first for some time. I climbed to the top of a giant candle that
grown in the living room overnight and then decided to hang a flag in the
garden. It was a lovely day and the dog decided to eat a medieval
building of far Eastern origin. I dug a hole and found one of her
bones; it spoke to me in a strange language which I could only understand
if I repeated it backwards.
While out walking in the afternoon I noticed that all the snake trees had started to grow again. I looked forward to anaconda fruit. A mouth in the road said: "It is reasonable to believe that all life is just scum on the surface of the true reality". Poppy chased leaves. Later I drew connected shapes in the living room and ate a pyramid. |
| 12/04/05: In my studio. The room had filled,
in a relatively short time, with the tendrils of jungle plants; many of
which had military insignia on their trunks indicating the campaigns they
had fought in. I was in a T-shirt, but turned an imaginary tattoo
into a Burmese warrior so managed to escape. Just in time to watch the
lightning flashes emanating from the tornados in the living room.
My wife was asleep on a shark.
In the evening I slept (standing up) while myriads of people went backwards and forwards carrying empty boxes. I later took the precaution of digging a trench in the middle of the room; however, no one came - not even an Ancient Egyptian Pharoah who I had been expecting for ages. |
| 13/04/05: The Ionic Five had another free day
but it was not as peaceful as planned. In the morning I sat on the
step looking through a hole and later I ran round in circles trying to
fit a tail to chase. In between I had dinner with Hannibal (who had
terrible manners!).
The end of the day was acted out as an Easter Island Head standing in the corner of the room looking at a blank screen. Every now and then a mouth would appear in the middle of the screen; however if you approached it would turn into a typewriter and you would enter the spoken words - then stand back aghast at it's effrontery. |
| 14/04/05: Today I found myself in a wild place
wrapped in black plastic. When people walked by I stood erect and
pretended to be a down pipe. This reminds me of a village I invented
in my youth where all the houses were underground with only the smoking
chimneys visible above. I eventually collected the plant I was not
searching for and went home.
In a dungeon in the evening, handing out soup. A gorilla in a human suit came up and pretended to be Shakespeare. I pretended to be Prospero. NB. When I was a teenager I had a best friend called Plant. |
| 15/04/05: On a tightrope reading a newspaper;
I knew if I stopped I would fall off. While up in the air I invented
a portable roof with ready made holes. I will eventually invent a
house that turns into a ruin each night - in the interim I will make a
topiary top hat and pull a green rabbit out of it.
Out in the afternoon to a place where fairies used to roam. Sadly, I saw nothing out of the ordinary, although the traffic ground to a halt when a birthmark appeared in the road. The mark looked like a snail with a window in it. When someone opened the window an old lady holding a dead fish climbed out. The fish was resuscitated in a bowl of water that, thankfully, I happened to be balancing on my head. |
| 16/04/05: An easier day in
the cellar of Jailhouse Sally. My first task of the day was to make
coat hooks out of dried worms and hang pictures of myself on them.
The only picture I could find had me changing into a fish. I eventually
became a flying fish in a bottle; my fins could be extended with a short
piece of cord hidden in a false moustache. I have a real beard
which I plan to sell to a property developer to make a modest estate of
2 bedroomed houses. I have felt semi-detached all day.
In the evening I was in a room that doubles as the eye that can see everything. Unfortunately, I had forgotten my glasses. |
| 17/04/05: In the garden all
day. This despite the fact that the Giant had descended the beanstalk
and was searching for my alias.
I first had to go to town to push a rolled up newspaper into the mouth of one of the heads that had recently appeared. The one I chose was next to the bridge where people are supposed to let their hair down. I climbed up the strongest strand of hair I could find and entered the next chapter of the book. In this book I am no longer the knight but turn out to be the dragon called Churchill. I am so big, people climb me like a hill. Rain poured down the hill at the end of the day. |
| 18/04/05: For the second time in a week I had
to pull a double decker bus up a mountain. It is a good thing my
strength is infinite. I then flew home carrying a collection of painted
eggs which I intend to put on show in a purpose built museum.
In the purpose built theatre I produced a standing still dance; even the audience were not allowed to move. To make sure of this, the only people invited were made of plastic. I ran off with a shop mannequin; however, the relationship is entirely platonic. I have long had a secret tree as a muse; I write poetry for it which has to be recited when buried underground. |
| 19/04/05: Many years ago I found a completely
deserted road which no one ever went down. I returned to the footpath
today. I put white wings on a road sign and ascended into another
world.
As part of my vocation I painted a series of dots on a large white hankerchief; each dot represented a person. I put the hankerchief in my pocket and pulled out a bottle: fish were swimming inside. I made a boat so that I could bend pipes inside like intestines. I lightly tapped on the outside and a girl swam out carrying a roof tile. |
| 20/04/05: As punishment for an unkown act I was
transformed into a giant and made to work all day. I spent most of
the time stacking houses on top of each other. The resulting piles
(some with still smoking chimneys) are designed to commemorate a battle
- I don't know which; but there was a lot of broken glass. I made
a bridge of cardboard and string for the judges to descend - then someone
said the gods were coming.
One of the stones in the amusement arcade churchyard read "I was dying for a drink so I am now buried in a bottle". In the evening I took a bungalow out for a walk. |
| 21/04/05: Today didn't go as planned: Instead
of a day as a masked warrior in an art studio I had to become a drainpipe
soldier and battle invisible demons. I sat astride a large dog that
appeared on the doorstep early in the day. It announced it presence
by whistling and offering treats. The dog could jump over buildings
but crawl under fences. I could climb through letter boxes.
We went to a battlefield of spinning tops, all of which had to tumble before the day was out. Kites danced to music under an orange sky. Blood fell from smiling balloons. If you walk the "hound from hell" all the trees run as you approach! |
| 22/04/05: I spent the morning in a trench making
mud pies while waiting for the enemy to appear. I was expecting birds
the size of buildings with machines guns in eggs attached to their legs.
However, it was robot kangaroos with glove puppets springing from their
pouches to practise martial arts. I wore an igloo as a helmet and
fended them off with palm leaves.
Poppy the dog wore a wing attachment and was able to attack from the air; firing a lewis gun and dropping bombs. One of the bombs turned out to be ballot papers - another would have made me a millionaire if I replied. As I am an iceberg sheikh I didn't bother. A gondola swept down the canal that suddenly appeared between the sofa and the wall. |
| 23/04/05: In my sleep I was the fastest bowler
in the world. When I woke I had to sit on the telephone to help it
hatch - I didn't take any wickets.
. Out all day in a fashion parade of different worlds. There was loud worlds and quiet worlds and worlds partly eaten by mice. I chose the world with concrete flowers. I partly found and partly made an endless ladder; formed into a perfect circle, if you climb high enough you reach the bottom. |
| 24/04/05: In an outside room of golden light
all day. Mountains rose and fell in constant motion and the clouds
went one way, stopped, then went the other. I engaged a small shrub
in earnest conversation while my wife disappeared into a hole of sound.
I stepped into a lake of light.
When I finally re-appeared through the waterfall it was evening. I had to work in a bird song factory, then the whale song place and finally the building where cardboard boxes sing. I played a piece of wall as a musical instrument while my friend strummed on a strip of meat. I tossed a coin and he put the bone in his pocket. |
| 25/04/05: At home some of the day. It was
a still day with only the sound of monsters bellowing on distant hills
to remind me that I exist where dimensions meet.
I got caught in a super spider web when practising the Indian Rope Trick but bribed the serpent guards to let me go. I came home with new lampshades for the eye lamps that sit each side of the sofa mouth. I wanted to become a person in a bottle but couldn't get ashore. |
| 26/04/05: At home all of the day. I worked
as the Ion Man most of the time, I then retired to the garden to commune
with the silent figures that occasionally appear. If other people
approach they pretend to be fish, I pretend to take a breakfast cereal
packet instead of a taxi. I work in the city - a model of which I
keep by my bed.
I found a tunnel which had appeared next to a bush with red lip leaves, I stuffed two white mice into my holsters and slowly entered. I came out in a place where people walk with their legs in the air; they sleep upright and stand horizontal. I brought back two packets of soft rocks as souvenirs. By the end of the day I had made one line too light and the other line too heavy. |
| 27/04/05: Away from home all of the day.
Totally by accident I became a messenger to the Morphologicals. These
are a race of mythical beings that can live in more than one place at the
same time and in more than one time at the same place. I pushed rocks
up hill and mailed myself to three different destinations; it will interesting
to see at which one I arrive first.
It was raining heavily, conscious of the empty glasses in my pocket I put up an umbrella; a number of small birds flew out - none of which noticed the note stuck in a bottle rolling down the street. I stood in a bucket and became an island. The bottle was washed up and I took out my pen. Much later, I found a ladder and climbed up and down it simultaneously. |
| 28/04/05: In my studio, disquised as a crop circle,
all day. I went out in the evening. I am not sure where I went:
as when you pushed aside the medieval minstrel costume that acted as a
door you found yourself on a bowling green with giant balls heading towards
you. I flagged down a ball and bought a ticket; if you get a day
out one you can change balls as many times as you like.
I was annoyed as I worked in the garden when a pod of dolphins emerged from the gravel, somersaulted and disappeared again in the flower beds. I got Poppy the dog to dig a hole but she couldn't find anything - except the usual remains of a sacrificial victim with it's mummified hands bound. |
| 29/04/05: I had an early trip out. I got
a bus on caterpillar tracks as one of the detours was to a lunar landscape,
then the martian highlands before we turned round at the Crown Inn - which
is being changed into flats. I tipped my hat at the tall trees that
flanked an entrance to a place I didn't know.
When I came home I found a street of hollowed out stones, most of huge dimensions, into which windows had been cut. I found our house (I call it Starman Towers) and pushed away the stone that blocked the hole into the hall, the dog was inside smoking a pipe. I pulled a candle out of my pocket and plugged it in. |
| 30/04/05: All day in shops. Inside the
shops, fairgrounds were growing and propagating themselves. The various
rides were expanding and diversifying, with the space for everday life
gradually diminishing. I spent all my time going up, down and around.
Outside the sky had bent down to talk to the bare earth; I couldn't help overhearing what was discussed but I put on a hat that reached down to the ground and pretended not to care. Meteorites fell into a giant bucket suspended between clouds while I communicated with electricity pylons using semaphores. It is a good thing it is the last day of the month! |
| 01/05/05: Out today: to the land where people
stand on sticks - I have been there may times before. I served water
to the torrent of people who surged by and I spoke to shadows in as many
languages as proved necessary. All the others animals in this land
have the strange distinction of being totally black over the bottom half
of their bodies and totally white above.
I spent the evening moving boxes; inside the boxes there were cold winds. |
| 02/05/05: In the garden for a good part of the
day and out for a bad part. While in the garden I was transported
to different parts of the world where I would hang from trees and stick
in the ground. I was careful not to take root while in the latter
state; metamorphosis into vegetable man is a painful process. I would
regularly transform myself into a plant when a child and I have fond memories
of garlanding many an isolated path. However, I wouldn't want to
do it now as I am tall as a skyscraper. Inside my architecture, dragonflies
the size of airliners are emerging from their pupal states.
Without warning a space rocket shot out of a hole in the ground and headed for the stars. |
| 03/05/05: In my studio again. The presence
which all rooms have was pleased to have my company again. For my
part, I was pleased that reality had fractured and it was possible to squeeze
between all the separating real worlds to find solace in the antithetical
world of new reality. The now isolated realities may evolve into
distinct species; one of which I may name after a song - I am not sure
which.
I found a space full of books which were so big it was possible to enter them. I walked, then run and finally jumped into as many as I could. |
| 04/05/05: The first normal day for a little while.
I knew this was going to be the case when a jet powered bird erupted into
flight from it's hiding place in the herbaceous border. It streaked
up into the sky leaving a trail of plastic bubbles behind it. I thought
these would prove to be crisp packets but they turned out to be encapsulated
snatches of song. Like islands it should be possible to swim between
them.
I didn't have to go out in the evening so it was possible for me to change into an item of furniture; a favourite pastime of mine. I decided I would be a standard lamp. Unfortunately my bulb had become angelic and would only light in a higher state. I stood to attention and refused to smile when american tourists photographed me holding their dog. I had the last laugh however as when I put it down it turned into an old lady and ambled away muttering to itself. |
| 05/05/05: Another, more or less normal day.
I practised being a crop circle and communing with aliens in the morning
and in the afternoon I became the alien and empathised with bare tracts
of land in an otherwise productive field. In the evening I held onto things
you cannot hold, fire came from my eye and went into my mouth; when I opened
it again I spoke in seven different languages at the same time.
I painted a picture while the picture simultaneously painted me. |
| 06/05/05: A day of myriads
of masts - and I was tied to none of them. While pretending to be
asleep in the crow's nest I overheard a conversation between the librarian
and his post mistress on the subject of buried treasure. Apparently
the clues are hidden in a book I didn't take out. The books I did
take out walked home on their own.
I was annoyed when I finally got home to find that I had forgotten the stamps. This will mean a spell in the bull ring in the morning: first as the matador and then as the bull. Cryptically, the birthday girl was sprayed gold while I engaged two mannikins in a deliberately vague discussion on immortality. Ended the day looking at photographs of yachts; my favourite was embedded in concrete. |
| 07/05/05: I spent the day scrambling about on
a net several miles above the surface of the Earth. Many others were
with me, although I suspect I was the only one with the power of flight.
I had a brief respite at home and then I was in another net, this time
underground, where I could feel the steam from volcanic vents and
hear mysterious voices.
I made sure I was polite to all robots I met. Robots come in a multitude of sizes; some are as big as trucks while other can sleep in your breast pocket. It is annoying when you open a cupboard door and a large head pokes out. |
| 08/05/05: A day spent mostly in the garden.
The mechanical giraffes which I invented continue to trim the shrubs and
observe the neighbours. To counter the possibility of invasion from
underground forces I strung a string vest over the earth.
The dog dressed herself in a kilt and tried tossing the caber. I taught her to do the highland fling with caterpillar tracks attached to her feet. We dodged the showers by becoming invisible; I haven't yet worked out all the ramifications of this feat. I finally put a gate right in the middle of the garden and called it a sculpture. |
| 09/05/05: A day home; which I spent high up in
the imaginary tree I had previously planted. The garden had a cosmetic
extension so that it ended with a gently flowing river. Whole families
could float by holding onto portugese man-o-war and other giant jellyfish.
I would pretend to fish.
While in my tree, I practised hanging from tolling bells; I could see for miles. I opened a book which had been cast aside several thousand years ago and remembered the child who could read the flames. |
| 10/05/05: A day on the glass lake which is my
studio. Wearing a skyscraper for a hat I painted in the air between
a gilded frame. Poppy, the dog, decided to eat the ball she was bouncing
- all that was left was the moving space it once occupied.
Later, she and I explored the ancient cave system that is hidden in the black clouds that shuffle over head. We could hear the bellows of the strange beings that live in the clouds. The cloud shepherds traipsed after us. The night was spent in the oldest forest in the world: all the trees were made from human hair. I slept in a braided one; Poppy wore a wig. |
| 11/05/05: In elf halls for part of the day.
This is where the four winds meet. People with two heads congregate
beneath the slowly turning fans. I wore my Sunday best head.
Earlier I was in my underground studio, where the date is permanently 1939. The wall are covered with lengths of rope: some you can pull, others are just knots - each one a message. I threw down a handful of brown lines and read them. I borrowed a moustache the chair was wearing and left the house in disquise. When I returned, the house was wearing dark glasses but I recognised the mole on it's cheek. The garden had a long raincoat; one button was provocatively left undone. |
| 12/05/05: Abroad in the echoing lands at the
break of day. I then retired to my studio with the dog standing guard.
She built a sentry box from driftwood and saluted the queen as she sped
by - this was after burying the postman in the garden.
The letter box was rattling; on inspection I noticed hundreds of people standing in the front garden blowing as hard as they could. I threatened to get the mower out and they dispersed. However, not before admiring the drain cover which was sparkling in the sunlight like a rare gem. They didn't realise that underneath was the cockpit of a submerged spaceship which I use for shopping on Mars. When walking downstairs I spoke to an area of wall which was recently given the gift of consciousness. |
| 13/05/05: A busy day which was artificially stretched
so that it looked better in a swim suit. As I cannot swim I was unsympathetic
to the idea.
Later, I stood in a bottle with smoke coming out of the invisible hat I occasionally wear. I opened my mouth and bubbles came out. Someone dropped the bottle so I was then able to scurry around like a clockwork toy for most of the day. It is prophesied that the house will be full of toads. |
| 14/05/05: A dog bone day: I metamorphosed into
a canine and scurried to and fro. I guarded a piece of ground during
the day, came home and then guarded another piece of ground in the evening.
The invaders come in all guises; some look real while some look plastic.
Just in case I balanced a fish bowl on my head.
While talking to some friendly electric eels I was startled when a small man playing a guitar jumped out of a cake a passing terrapin was carrying. The eels mentioned the possibility of layers of reality like cellophane. Out of politeness, I pulled an electricity pylon out of my top pocket and hummed a tune - unfortunately noone else knew it. |
| 15/05/05: In the garden for the morning, which
resides on the surface of a large metal plate; I have a sneaking suspicion
that it slowly spins but I haven't been able to prove this. I did
very little except move giant chess pieces about - I was playing against
myself so I knew I couldn't lose.
In the afternoon, the garden vanished and I was standing on bare metal which felt like it was slowly getting hotter. I could hear music in the distance; I assumed this was a youth band of the local soldier ants. During the evening, I almost had to dance with two drunken scarecrows but turned myself into an iron man just in time. |
| 16/05/05: For some reason I built a cage in the
garden and locked myself in it; when I finally gave myself the key, most
of the morning had gone. When I came in, snakes were festooned all
round the walls of my studio. I picked one and turned it into a paint
brush, however I didn't do much with it so I went and ate an apple.
There was two teaspoons of rain in the afternoon which I kept in a gold chalice. I thought about wearing a monks robe and attaching wheels to my shoes but accidentally went to sleep in a cheese roll instead. I thought the nascent waterfall hanging over the garden would bring the frogs out but all I could find in the garden was miniature dumper trucks which endlessly raced up and down. I offered to fit mechanical wings onto Poppy the dog so that she could chase after them; however, she ungraciously declined the offer. |
| 17/05/05: I spent part of the day hanging from
a burning rope - this was over the pond with the fountain of youth in it.
The pond at the top of the garden is the fountain of old age. In
between there is a statue of a young girl which I have dedicated to my
late mother.
I locked myself in my studio during the afternoon using a strand of my own hair. Later in the day I was in the Samson Tea Rooms; complete with fallen pillars and broken glass. I served myself tea and everyone else alcohol. |
| 18/05/05: Out and about today. Following
snail slime to the sea side and back again, without actually seeing the
ocean; only huge ships that completely obscured the view. Part of
the time I used caterpillars instead of trains; some were so old they still
had British Butterfly on their sides.
When I came home I curled up inside a conch shell waiting to be blown out by the invisible musicians that continuously drift by. I had pictures of imaginary gardens in my head, which I hope to paste into a stamp album when I am young enough. |
| 19/05/05: A chill out day; wet outside.
Inside I marched round in circles until I made a deep hole in the floor;
from which I was able to vist the underground lands. I brought back
subterranean fruit and likenesses of the people. Everyone lives in
hollowed out fungi and the light is provided by bioluminescent moths -
burning candles revolve around the latter in ever diminishing circles.
While underground I made myself a studio and did some work I could be proud of. Much of this was done in sand. I had planned to visit the Ladder Lands but didn't have enough time. |
| 20/05/05: Out all day in places where cardboard
boxes confine candyfloss thoughts. I manage to drill some holes to
let my pink dreams escape. Finally, using my new hat as a hot air
balloon (shaped like an orang-u-tan holding a laptop) I lifted into the
bad hair day sky. Below I remember seeing fully automatic chess pieces
on factory quilts. A row of rooks floated by; all connected with
pink tape. On the tape was written goodbye in a hundred and eleven
languages.
I used a tightrope to move between different dolls house. The last one I alighted on had a miniature skeleton in the cupboard. |
| 21/05/05: I flew on a cuckoo today. Some
of the time I was down a mine, and some of the time I was tied to the mast
while the elephants strode by. Atop the elephants were modest houses
with tiny gardens. I nodded then jumped into a haystack with a needle
on my back.
I stood in a sarsen circle while different coloured people fought. In one corner they were red while in another they were black and white. The police arrived in a toy car. I retightened their elastic bands. I went home disquised as a frog. |
| 22/05/05: The world moved in slow motion all
day. I was slowest of all, each step took several hours and each
hand shake took longer still. Flowers fossilised in my grasp and
by the end of the day, the pile of stones hadn't grown an inch.
The afternoon was spent as a laughing cavalier; helping people made from bottles to their glass car. I went to bed as a flower pot man; I dug a hole and planted myself. |
| 23/05/05: Out in the waving tube lands during
the morning. Full of squirming tentacles that can suck you in.
I avoided most of the temptations such as voices emanating from trees and
smiling faces in lakes - although I did tie my shoe laces using magic
string.
When I got home I worked alone. Poppy mutated into an armchair and sat on herself. I watched flowers within flowers while June threw paper darts at her memories. |
| 24/05/05: When I opened the front door I was
bowled over by a steam roller; my flattened body was subsequently stretched
and used as a drum skin for a local military band. I didn't feel
sorry for myself, only for the foot long earthworms which were used as
drum sticks. To my relief they were rescued by the blackbird police.
I then took my imagination pill and dreamed up my escape.
When I got home, jumping clouds across four continents to get there, I found the dog chasing dust motes (I had thought it would have married the sofa). I pulled a rabbit out of hat and it played a tune. In the evening I was inside a walking glass case, my arms protruding from pre-cut holes. |
| 25/05/05: A day I could spend in any book I wished.
I chose (as I always do) the art book. Poppy Dog had overnight grown
legs which were four or five metres long. I had to use a ladder to
pat her. We played games around a wigwam in the American North West.
In an orb hanging from the sky I could still view the flowers of my childhood.
While jumping on a trampoline built into my studio floor I invented a form of arithmetic which only uses noughts. This simplifies calculations - an important consideration when your head is continually hitting the ceiling. While in the garden I built a hut for invisible animals - I am wondering now how I will know when it is being used. |
| 26/05/05: I spent the day hanging from ropes;
some were connected to bells others became elephant tails and I could balance
houses on my head. In the jungle pictures became sounds and I constructed
a symphony from jigsaw pieces.
During the evening I went down a tunnel and heard a heart beat. I played the drums in a subterraean rock group before finding the light. Unfortunately the light came from a solitary match which went out as soon as I approached it. I turned on a torch and pushed it down my trousers. |
| 27/05/05: The morning was spent as an ocean liner;
hundreds of people scuttled about on my decks. I heard the voices
in the deep and saw the hands that emerge from clouds - some would shake
hands with me and some would shake hands with each other. I escaped
the iceberg by pretending to be a hot bath.
Later in the day I had to stand on a plinth and move in slow motion. All round me people moved as fast as they could. I stuck out my hand and won a prize. |
| 28/05/05: A very busy day in the factory that
doesn't make anything. The rooms look like bad hair with myriads
of beams sticking out at all angles. Escalators and moving pavements
occupied all the free space so the only place to have a tea break was floating
in mid air. Luckily I had spare wings in my rucksack. I kept hold
of my tea but dropped the cup. I had to take the moving road in the
afternoon to receive my medicine.
I came home to find my wife wearing the dog as a hat. I clapped my hands and she gave me a bone. |
| 29/05/05: I went through the magic mirror today
and ended up having tea in a chandelier. The rest of the party could
be seen in bubbles that floated across the room followed by noises which
had escaped from the zoo next door. I knew the zoo when it was a
bronze age earthworks.
I left by flying up the chimney with a chimpanzee on my back. When we parted it continued skywards to become an airline pilot and I fell to earth and dug the garden. I returned in the evening to living in a goldfish bowl - where everyone could blow bubbles except me. |
| 30/05/05: I spent most of the day in the igloo
that had suddenly emerged at the top of the garden. I installed an
ice television with icicle aerial and then steamed up the window.
While playing on a cold floor, a string quartet emerged from the fridge wearing bikinis and played among poles. The plants I was dancing with eventually became wallflowers. During the evening I moved cans of pickled specimens like pawns in a chess game. I threw the dice and lost. |
| 31/05/05: Back to my studio; which is swaying
in the breeze atop a wisp of grass. I keep an eye out for insects
the size of double decker buses - three always come at once. Most
of my time is spent drawing eyes; which stare back at me with synchronised
blinking. I put down my paint brush and it becomes a crab scurrying
away into the corner of the room.
I then went out into the magical garden to make a bed of step ladders; tall ones at the back and short ones in the middle. When I come back I notice goal posts in the living room. The cage birds were wearing scarves. |
| 01/06/05: I worked in a house made from underpants
today. A giant palm grew out of the garter chimney while I drew lines
on stocking hammocks. Outside the rain came down in bed sheets.
I was glad I had a submarine in the fish pond.
I opened the door to a complete stranger and I was surprised when we communicated solely through smoke signals. I put out the fire in my hat and made a cup of tea. Notes were written on pieces of paper which we crumpled up and threw on the floor. I gave the dog a football and she played the harp. |
| 02/06/05: At the break of dawn, on the approach
of rumbling sounds, I had to open my mouth wide to let out a speeding express
train.
I then spent most of the day tied like a washing line between the walls of the Giant's castle. However, this did not stop me from painting (using a finger nail that miraculously grew a hundred feet in length). Later in the day I walked under a waterfall of lemmings to find the treasure of a hundred eyes. When, eventually all were closed, I sung myself to sleep. |
| 03/06/05: I went to a place of work - by a weeping
tree and burning bush. This is where the whistling trains go
flat while I ascend or descend. In my mind, a bird in a cage is singing.
As I walk by people pull plugs out of baths causing me to invent a dry
swimming pool where the whole family can walk or run in complete safety.
After a dinner of doormats I watched the spectacle of a huge umbrella coming in to land. Once landed water gushed everywhere from holes in it's sides. I went home to dance round the maypole with the dog before we turn it into a totem pole for the year. |
| 04/06/05: Most of the day was spent walking along
a fence that went from one side of town to the other. From this fence,
with gardens one side and the imaginary sea the other, I would serve people
with paper and drinks. Some people would ask for a pencil so that
they could stir their drink.
I burrowed into the loose soil during the middle of the day and found the mummified remains of an ancient footballer. He played before the game was even invented. I was annoyed when I returned to the surface that I hadn't asked for his autograph - however, I signed my book for him. |
| 05/06/05: My last day for a little while manning
Hadrian's wall. I wasn't on the look out for barbarians but rather
scraping algae off the Roman television cameras. I looked away when
I realised I was being watched by an estimated audience of eight million
people. However as they had all been dead for almost two thousand
years I felt possible proposals of marriage would be unlikely. If
I got one I would probably have accepted.
Before this I practised being a piece of turf in case I have to hide when the Martians return. They came once before but I pretended I wasn't religious. I did this while a perfectly accurate model of King Kong was climbing up my side. |
| 06/06/05: In the morning I discovered a revolving
glass dome buried in scrub. When I finally worked out the strange
hieroglyphs on the control panel (they appear to have been based on english
of the time of Chaucer) I made the telescopic support rise into the stratosphere.
This is where Merlin still swims in the lake in the sky. Typically
at the end of the day, I couldn't find the button which opened the door
so I escaped through the machine that draws wallpaper onto cumulus clouds.
Incidentally, I also met a knight from King Arthur's round table: he was busy cutting the barbed wire left over from the time of the Norman Conquest. |
| 07/06/05: I spent the day in the room that nestles
between ploughed furrows. I call it Marcasite Mansion.
Because I was reduced in size, the birds flying overhead were as big as
cities - they towed their cathedrals behind them. I climbed up the
plant phloem to reach the revolving sun head.
I eventually made a wig from the compost heap and walked like a dog. The dog had discovered religion; I discovered a motorway in a suitcase. I hear the shake of dice and one half of me climbs the ladder and the other half descends the snake. |
| 08/06/05: I said hello to the matchstick men
in the morning, these were the ones with one large eye. Large trees
were weeping in the breeze and the sky railway goes right through the harvest
mice nests that have been blown up to a hundred times their normal size.
I come back along a Scaletrix roadway, pass the standing and sitting stones to the only Indian restaurant on a desert island. The island is in the middle of a cornfield; sea water being in short supply. I open the paper and a hurricane blows out; I close it and a polar bear ambles up to collect it for his master. |
| 09/06/05: All day in the spiral house.
I am working on a wall from Pompeii. I have added the adverts for
primeval toothpaste and I hope to add the signs to the only dating agency
on the moon shortly. I was amazed when scratch marks appeared over
night. These started in Pompeii and ended in Andover, Massachussetts.
On a good night I hear the calls from the pyramid which hangs over the
double bed - while I am tucked up with the sword of Damocles. I am
reading the "War Of The Other Worlds".
In the morning I played as the organ grinder and in the evening I played as the monkey. |
| 10/06/05: Out today where it is possible to be
blinded by flashing lights - I put in ear plugs. In my spare time
I dreamt I was on an island, then I dreamt I was an island. Robot
Friday pretended to pray before letting slip that God is a machine.
Friday is the beginning of the week for me - except when the trains run
like game on the plains of the Serengeti.
At midday I descended between poles of amber light to the subterranean honey pot. I only got out again when I pretended to be a zombie. When I looked back, Eurydice was still there. I did little more than stampede in the evening. |
| 11/06/05: I went to work using wings that grew
from my flowing hair. This when two dwarf men were playing tennis
on my head - I had a good thought whenever the ball hit the court.
The painted dwarves fell on me when I passed under two old trees. The trees
can be heard talking to each other at night; I whisper to the wind.
Flames ascended from the mountains on the edge of town. These are glass mountains which change into glass slippers at midnight. I spent my time as the Leaning Tower of Pisa feeding birds with crumbs of knowledge. I came home as a paper man; holding hands with myself. |
| 12/06/05: I had planned to go to Mars to collect
some sand for the new beach in the attic. However, none of the trains
at the bottom of the road would climb up the vertical rope I hung in front
of them. Unfortunately you have to go up to get anywhere in this
place. I had thought of capturing geese but didn't have enough helmets.
While this was happening the toy house by the sand museum confessed to being an enemy spy and was arrested. I thought it was up to something when it insisted on calling itself the Desert Fox. I called myself the Breakfast Cereal and poured milk in my lap. |
| 13/06/05: A Monday that came folded like a pair
of jeans. I managed a long sentence in my studio before escaping
with the help of a filing cabinet hidden inside a cake. Luckily I
noticed long hair hanging from a cloud and climbed up into a flying car.
It didn't travel very fast and I had to make all the engine noises myself.
When we all arrived, everyone at the meeting had to line up and be shown
how to administer first aid to a cheese sandwich. I had to leave
when I ate the patient.
When I got home I tied myself into a knot and turned into a cushion. |
| 14/06/05: Out in the morning; using a road inside
a giant anaconda. Lights are attached to it's ribcage and the road
forks when you reach it's mouth. When I arrived at my destination
I celebrated by cutting a long thin path in overgrown grass.
I took a hedgehog taxi home. It's spines meant that you could (if you wish) collect letters as you travelled along. I spat mine out before I drunk an orange. In the distance legs pushed out of giant balls and waddled away. |
| 15/06/05: A day wrapped in cellophane and displayed
in the window of the only shop in the world stuck in a tree. I remember
as a very young boy finding a path between two hedges that had almost grown
together. I could walk all the way round the garden without being
seen - however, I could not stick out my arms to take off so I would have
to think myself into the air.
In my teens I used luminous skeletons as landing lights, now I navigate my smell - despite the fact that I often incubate crocodile eggs in my cheeks. I am hoping to one day find my childhood garden
in a shopping bag so that I can take it home again.
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| 16/06/05: Out today; in the internal wilderness.
I wore two heads for a dare. One advantage of this was I could more
readily engage myself in conversation.
The air was seen to be in strands that touch and mingle like bed sheets. This meant the steam fans were not needed in the Piranesi village where I work. They will be tomorrow and I could see the dwarves bringing coal to the furnaces on the way home. These are kept burning day and night in case the flying fortresses need to light their supersonic cigarettes. I pretend to light my walking stick but stub my toe on a miniature seaside pier attached to the kerb. |
| 17/06/05: I walked a tightrope to the high perch
where I work all day. I was able to watch the jelly fish float under
the bridges that think for themselves. One, I noticed, was reading
a copy of "The Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells.
After dinner I opened a package and spoke to someone in the past. As I put the phone down it changed into a galleon which sails the high seas. After supper I saw the gothic mansion that occasionally appears fleetingly within the space I call my garden - one day I will knock on the door and go in. |
| 18/06/05: Another day hanging in a net that sways
precariously above the burning boats. I posted myself to work and
then swam through the earth back home again - only to later re-emerge on
a pogo stick to traverse the mine field like Socrates in an early painting
of mine.
The evening was spent in moth costume; bumping into lights and slowly flickering out - arguing with my reflection in the mirror as I did so. The day disappeared into the distance, walking on stilts to keep it's more tender parts safe from the baking heat. |
| 19/06/05: A day home in the magic garden I have
made from the pages of Malcolm Saville books. It was extremely hot
with the sun a malicious eye which never blinked. I pulled the wreckage
of a Second World War aircraft out of the wildlife pond - where it disturbed
the frogs - and made telepathic communication with the musician who lives
in the centre of the Earth.
I actually wrestled with plants all day, some of which (I believe) are not from this solar system. I even pulled a cooking pot out from the clouds of Venus and planted some beans. By running backwards and forwards very quickly I was finally able to converse with myself. |
| 20/06/05: A day spent mainly in the little room
above the gate though which the mind warriors of history march. Even
so, I had time to write down all the good numbers I could think off; I
pretended not to know the bad numbers.
I am hopeful one day off finding the walking octopus which would provide the links with past days and people. I am sure it has more than eight arms and moves backwards as well as forwards. I went out in the evening; to a house made from Bertram Russell's arm pit. This is where I lit a match. |
| 21/06/05: I had to go to the coast today.
It took a long time as I travelled by hopping: I was taught this by a kangaroo
who I later discovered was the world's first philosopher. While by
the sea I took time to see angels and devils. I was surprised to
find that everyone always danced with each other: walking alone was frowned
upon. I ran back like Superhare but still missed the train.
As I was late in I decided to become a goblin in my studio - The only room that could contain me. I eventually slid into the "Enchanter's Garden" to cool out. While there I discovered a cruise liner made out of ice. I went, briefly, to the Roman Forum in the evening; but only to stand on one leg. |
| 22/06/05: Woke up and walked through a spiral
tunnel - like the skeleton of a giant wood screw. At the end of the
journey, I had time to spin a hen's egg before making my return inside
a whale. The whale brought back memories of my days as a smuggler
in the late Eighteenth Century.
When I got home I set to celebrating a sunny day by building a cloud the size of King Kong. I am hopeful it will attempt to swat biplanes as they pass by the pages of history which stand high in the garden. I sat at a table made from the thigh bone of a flesh eating dinosaur (even though I am a vegetarian). |
| 23/06/05: An extra busy day - often spent in
several places at the same time. I am now so elastic I can catch
all the cosmic dust that enters the earth's atmosphere.
I was the tea boy at first and was dangled in the teapot until properly brewed. When I finally came out it was decided it was too warm for hot drinks and I had to pretend to be an ice cube. This is something I find very easy to do. I was rapidly promoted and ended the day as Lord Ice. I came home and pulled my wife out of the fire. |
| 24/06/05: Another busy day where I was the lion
tamer and the lion. I am glad that the little man that lives on the
top of my head is more talkative than me as there were too many people
milling around the entrance to the time capsule caves for me to cope with.
I wish that the hole in the hedge by the woodmill was a hole in time itself and I would crawl out into my early life where all hedges had secret passages in them. Talking of secret passages I made one between the cupboard in the shape of a gorilla in my studio and the invisible obelisk that I have sited in the garden. I can now enter the garden without being seen. |
| 25/06/05: A day in the desert where the cauldron
heat could be seen by it's effect. I was still Janus and saw everyone
coming and going.
At work I could run around on tracks like a model train. I started off as a shunter but ended up as a "Battle Of Britain" class with a string of carriages. When I walked the dog I pretended to be Poppy and she pretended to be me. However, I was a bit annoyed when she talked to every stranger we met. |
| 26/06/05: A day as a neanderthal in my paradise
garden. It was possible to hear the barbarians in both the future
and the past. However I lived for the moment. I stetched the
garden deep into the oceans where ancient marine animals still roam and
cultivated HT seaweed. Unfortunately I still missed the whale song
hidden in the tree roots.
I weeded like an archeologist and made a number of important finds. However, it was still very hot and June and I had to have Bedouin tents on our backs. I put my finds in a camel's humps. I followed the foot prints of the plant people
who know all our secrets but they had already spoken.
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| 27/06/05: Less hot but the semi-magic garden
still feels like a steel works. I face the furnace and pretend that
Dante is asleep in my top pocket. I carefully take out my hankerchief
so not to wake him and mop my brow.
In my studio I draw shapes in the air, blow lightly and they float onto the canvas like kisses. Rain clouds marched across town but did not deposit enough water to put out the fires constantly burning on the heads of everyone walking down the street. |
| 28/06/05: A more or less normal day. Hands
emerged from the brickwork at the top of the stairs and I shook them.
At the bottom of the stairs I grasped the nettle. I plan to plant
climbers that grow bricks so that I can add an extra floor to the house.
This will save me from using the missile silos which are placed beneath
the floor in the dining room.
Out of the cuckoo clock came a dragon. I thought this might be handy to light June's cigarettes but I am still hoping she will stop smoking. If she does I am pretty certain that a Swiss railway will run down the hall and out through the kitchen. In the kitchen red indians have set up their camp. I am hoping to learn their language but for now I just drew signs on the floor. |
| 29/06/05: A chill out day which is always a challenge.
Especially for the occupants of the Nordic Court which reside in my room.
Today they did not have anyone to try but filled in the time by making
a new gaol in one of my greenhouses. While they did this bluebirds
flew over the cliffs of Dover which float on one of the artificial horizons
I use in my wargames.
I disappeared for a short time though the secret doorway in the garden pond. I re-emerged as the Creature From The Black Lagoon, sung a song and disappeared again. This was part of a new ritual of enlightenment I am initiating. I threw a tractor tyre in the air and ate a doughnut. |
| 30/06/05: I woke up to the sound of seagulls
and for an instant I was somewhere else.
Before breakfast I flew to the village of my childhood on a big bird - it was raining worms. I had some time when I got back to continue building the fortifications around the hill that isn't there. On the news, aliens on flying carpets (sickles in hands) are reportedly heading this way. I noticed that the wheat is already ripening. |