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My Nanna is taking a plane to South Carolina at the end of the month. I've been a bad grandson for years. I always thought I would take my grandparents out for picnics in the car but after I passed my driving test I didn't drive anymore so the picnic never happened. And then my Granddad died and I moved to London and now my Nanna's going to America so now it’ll probably never happen. It's odd how time ends up making you feel foolish for having these good ideas and then not doing anything about them.



Nanna moved up to London from Wales in the 1930s as there was more employment there. She was beautiful and chatty and had a lot of boyfriends. She never had a Welsh accent and she doesn't know why as both her sisters never lost theirs even though they all travelled to London at more or less the same time. She is 84. Some of her boyfriends were killed in the war as they were soldiers or sailors or in the RAF. She said how as they never had to grow old they were somehow perfect because they died in their prime before they had a chance to spoil.



She taught me how to make pastry when I was very young. 4oz flour 2oz butter a spoonful of water. Use the leftover pastry to make jam tarts. My Granddad used to read bedtime stories to my sister and me and would always try and persuade Nanna to let us have chocolate and crisps and so I used to like him more than I liked her. Now that he's dead I like her more and more each time I seen her. She never tells the same story twice - the result of being extrovert with a jealous husband. Somehow I've inherited this even though I don't have a jealous husband. He could be really horrible to her at times but said he told her he loved her every day. She misses him but said it would've been cruel to make him stay - he was so ill. She has to have a constant supply of oxygen because she used to work in an office where everyone smoked. She'd make an ideal poster girl for passive smoking as she herself never smoked and now she has chronic heart and lung failure. It’s been like this for a few years now. How can you still be alive with chronic heart and lung failure? Anyway she is for the time being.



She says she was a bad mother and yet she’s done the best out of all her contemporary relations - no one's put her in a home yet. She has a carer who comes twice a day and a cleaner as well but I don't know how often the cleaner visits. She had some beautiful clothes. She stayed in the Plaza Hotel in Madrid when Granddad was a cameraman on that film shoot when Tyrone Power died of a heart attack. She said the director made him re-do this take where he had to run up a staircase 100 times and then he dropped dead of a heart attack. Gina Lollobrigida had a fur coat. So Granddad bought Nanna one too. It’s odd what seems to happen when you get old. Your whole life gets reduced to a few stories you're happy to tell over and over. Things that stuck. Things people said. Embarrassing moments. lt’s funny how these moments of embarrassment are so awful at the time but then they’re probably the things you remember most when you get old.

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from Tenmoth Electron, released December 1, 2017

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bens pens started off as a concept band where ben just asked people if they wanted to be in his band. at one point it had 7 flautists and no rehearsals performances or songs. often it's just him. tenmoth electron is the result of almost 10 years slowly turning a self published magazine into a piece with his friend tom loffill and voice of icelandair atli gunnarsson. ... more

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