Kate ClarkeFeb 112 minMusic Wednesday I had those videos digitised The ones that sat in a slouching stack. “Yeah, I must get around to that," you said. Too late – they’re...
Kate ClarkeAug 15, 20212 minGladiolusAs soon as they came into season Terry would buy gladiolus - for me, for the house, for those audacious colours, but mostly because they...
Kate ClarkeJun 24, 20213 minSteve GibbonsThere's a petition going around to get Steve Gibbons a star on the Birmingham Walk of Fame. While they are at it can someone get him a...
Kate ClarkeMay 15, 20212 minArrest This Moment I'm reading that book about Michael Marra that I bought for you but you hadn't yet read. 'From Kate, Easter 2018' - you always wrote the...
Kate ClarkeApr 22, 20214 minCal VincentTerry wrote this piece on his website, March 2, 2017. Back in the day, Cal looked like Elvis Presley's older brother who might have been...
Kate ClarkeFeb 17, 20212 minA Red Coat, A Red Apple I've spent a few days back and forth to the hospital. It's the same one Terry and I went when he had a heart issue a couple of years ago....
Kate ClarkeFeb 13, 20212 minWe're All Idiots I've been going through some photographs, looking for something. There are hundreds of them, all carefully archived and dated - Terry had...
Kate ClarkeFeb 3, 20211 minJack and that Beanstalk I don't know why I think a song is a sacred thing, to be elevated and adored above almost everything else. Particularly a profane song....
Kate ClarkeJan 3, 20211 minNight Ride to BirminghamJust received a letter from someone Terry had good times with 50 years ago. They drove to Birmingham together in '68, in Dave's dad's...
Kate ClarkeDec 16, 20202 minJewellery, Windows and WineIf you don't get a Christmas card from me I can only apologise. I have never sent one in my life. Terry did all of that stuff. He was the...
Kate ClarkeNov 16, 20201 minThose Clarke Boys I may have said this before, I lose track. When Terry's son, Joseph, visited us, there was a ritual. They would come into the house,...
Kate ClarkeNov 5, 20202 minTrailers For Sale or Rent I don't do much socialising. My mother worries about it. If I go to a gathering it tends to be a business event and I'm there for my...
Kate ClarkeAug 29, 20202 minCashing in Chips That Aren't Mine There are people in this shabby world - some I have never met, some I have met for the briefest of times, and some who I have spent scant...
Kate ClarkeJul 31, 20203 minA Stranger To My BirthI've been listening to Honky Tonk Masquerade. It is one of those albums I hadn't dared to approach since Terry died. He was so into Joe...
Kate ClarkeJul 28, 20202 minThe Full Neil Diamond I dreamed about Terry again. He was sitting in my mum's sunny kitchen, singing us Neil Diamond songs. I heard the whole of Signs,...
Kate ClarkeJul 13, 20202 minAs Sweet as New TobaccoThat Western jacket I have been obsessing about? The last time Terry wore it was at The Luminaire, in Kilburn High Road. He and Wes...
Kate ClarkeJul 8, 20203 minThe Good Ones Dream Of Their Grandmother I’ve started to notice women in the supermarket queue who wear a large wedding ring on a chain around their neck. It’s a little moment of...
Kate ClarkeJul 5, 20201 minProper PoetsThere are some words only poets use, in order to sound like ‘proper poets’, aren’t there? They always set my teeth on edge: Shards...
Kate ClarkeJul 2, 20202 minElvis, Terry and the Brando of Theatrical TailoringAs you know, Terry’s beautiful clothes are grieving me. There is one item in particular. A lovely, Scully Western jacket: fluid, inky...
Kate ClarkeJun 25, 20201 minPeople Are Stupid I've been wondering why it bothers me so deeply that some folks who really should have valued Terry didn't. I'm not talking about his...