pete mcgovern

Broken TV fix - bake the main-board for 10 minutes at gas mark 5. All the really important stuff is on the internet.

Tritton Road, Lincoln: south-west corner. First stage due to complete September 2021, with a total of 1400 ensuite rooms by 2022. 40 weeks rent £7,017.60.

The neighbours must be wondering what's going on.  It's a Sunday and where is my usual half hour Alanis Morissette playlist at volume, which they must look forward to all week. I do my ironing in one room and the speakers are in another and so they need cranking up a bit to get the full benefit of Alanis. Alanis Morissette. Every Sunday. For months. But today she did not accompany me, or me her, with my singing along while ironing, and the random mix that got selected instead opened with a song by Ryan Miller (singer with US band Guster), 'This Is The Only Time We Have' .  I met him once after a gig in North London. I liked him. He liked my camera, (a Sony R1). I took a picture of us. So we're basically best friends. I first heard ' This Is The Only Time We Have ' when watching ' Fundamentals of Caring '. It was played over the closing credits and it was an ' I know that voice! ' moment. That film was a recommendation from Alexy at work in th

 I saw musicians setting up at the band-stand when I hit the park on my run this afternoon. I said hi and they said they were starting at 4pm so I headed back later to watch and listen. They are Ignite (Elim Pentacostal Church) who are more usually based at the library located at the north west entrance to the park. About 30 people showed up and there was free hot chocolate and coffee. Very small children danced enthusiastically.  I got home feeling I had participated in a triathalon. Running, cycling and home in the rain. It has been the year of doing random things - like Jim Carrey's character in the film, ' Yes, Man '.

I saw this painting when dipping into a book on her this morning and was immediately entranced. A few months ago I stood at the spot where she painted this, outside her cottage in the tiny village of Catterline in Scotland. Years ago I wouldn't have thought this loose figurative style innovative enough. It was - and still is  -  popular with many British artists. For me though she is the bestest of the best. Last week I was amazed to read that in 1945, at age 25, she came to Lincoln and briefly worked with the children in a school just a few hundred yards away from where I currently live.

Bigger than the Deutsche Borse Photography prize , it's the office photo competition: What A Year. 22nd March 2020 -  Tesco filled the shelves left empty from the panic-buying of loo rolls with buckets of flowers for mother's day.  The scent of the end of civilisation has unexpectedly turned out to be fresh and lovely. I don't think it will win any prizes for being an amazing looking photograph. It's a snapshot, and without the context doesn't mean anything particularly. Only with accompanying words does it carry much meaning at all, and even then perhaps only to me. I think it will be easy to forget the day to day experience early on in the pandemic. When a trip to the supermarket meant going to the back of a queue around the side of the building, maintaining social distancing from the person in front and accepting the rhythm of life had changed; feeling the sun on one's face, looking at distant tree tops waving in the breeze and the stop-start rhythm practicin

somewhat suprised and happy to wake to a sunny day. And it's the #1 weekend since lockdown #2 ended and my priority #1 was to get to TK#Maxx to see what new-in plant pot stock they might have waiting for me.  There were #millions of people out and about today; it was sunny and we were un-locked. At the shop I fought my way up to floor #1 past men and women wanting new clothes and was massively relieved to find the #2 shelves of plant pots without a #single person around them.  This is the #one. This is the #one I've waited for.  Hello, medium size pot.  You came from the land of Portugal, and not so heavy unlike #most of the other ones I've bought lately. A lovely pale cream glaze ceramic with textured detailing around the rim, and while the melted dark chocolately coloured splodges are not the best colour it's interestingly done.  I'd bought a huge #XL hoodie so could wrap it up in and carefully place in my rucksack for the ride home. I reminded myself not to do an