Time to disinvest
Today we had a blip. Blip is the word used by a colleague in a moment of genuine comfort, except today it …
Triggers
In the process of learning what triggers our children, we learn what triggers us. This hasn’t been a natural process for me. …
Genuine Goods
This evening we started planning this year’s Christmas presents over a perfect pint in the Crafty Devil bar on Llandaff Road. It …
Rediscovering DJ Andre
I rarely see my DJ friend Andre these days. Our lives that were once so intertwined have taken on different paths, much …
Collecting Glasses
Kristian was a happy accident courtesy of my mum. Puzzled at my lack of enthusiasm for a night out one Friday evening, …
Managing Truancy
I had a really helpful chat with T about S’s fifth week of truancy, the excuses he is making, and his difficulty …
What They Don’t Prepare You For
It’s a job. It’s rubbish. It will bring external influences into your home and life. It is largely thankless. It will be …
Coping Mechanisms
There is no beginning to this, and realistically there will be no end. So I’ll dive straight into it and try to …
Disengaging
As I write off the rest of my working day and appear at the school my partner works in, I notice the …
Finding Jon John
I’d spotted Jonathan John some time before introducing myself to him. He’d been standing in the Golden Cross with a likely looking …
Following Pete Burns
I think we’d been to see Pete Burns do two or three songs at the Red Cap in Camden, the night I …
Meeting Rollo
The night I met Rollo was so unlikely that I’m amazed to this day it happened. It was a Monday night, Faithless …
The First Rebirth
Jones & Stephenson – The First Rebirth. I must admit that I can’t remember actually hearing this in Club X one Friday …
The Flowers In Your Garden
Your garden on the corner sits and waits to alure to lead astray innocent passers by. You cannot live the scents you …
Frozen Ices
Blind I am, and Deaf I am, and Dumb though I trip go The smells get over, No odour more spelling Than …
Left Evidence
THERE IS A BUSH THAT BURNS, THERE IS A FIELD THAT NEVER LEARNS, AND TAKES IN CHILDREN SUNDAYS JUST FOR GAMES AND …
Curl Up And Die
2 nights running the bird with the cobalt blue beak and neck which this family had acquired as new sat in the …
Mine
down here is close and stale and egg-like, my head is small and tense and tight. down near by you is dense …
Mist
what will I wear, what shall I wear, what shall I do with my hair? I’ll wear my black, my sweet, and …
Raindown The Window
He peed against the trough like rain against the roof. Take me there. Newspaper cutting walls and drunken acoustic balls. Take me …
Tease
the movement in my arm from warm to gradual chilled existence as the nerves begin to wake and regain sense. both limbs …
Little Things
little things please little minds if you can get them up, if you can find a mouth to fit your dreams tonight. …
Spontaneous Human Combustion
explosive character – you ruined my night! I bought you a drink and you went and combusted. clever tricks like that aren’t …
One More Taste
don’t look at me, I’ll only laugh; you’ll say I’m such a waste. don’t touch my tongue, when I say stop, don’t …
Instant Bereavement
What would you like? All I can make is tea. What shall I say – all I can think is lines of …
The Inner Within
I’ve been as fas as I can go, but only with myself. through the physics of love and mental breakdown; depression and …
Sourgrapes
what shall I do? whatever it is, it won’t involve you. whereever I go, away from here where you can’t know, YOU’LL …
10 BEARS
through the doors of bedrooms you can hear my songs. if you listen close enough you can hear my heart. I fill …
Go Home To Mother
even his long-time love who said she’d never desert him has failed him. where is she now the line has cleared? the …
Headache
morning sweetness! I woke today with you on my mind. while hot and bothered I felt your arms as I showered. hot …
I’ll Phone You
I’ll phone you from work – I’ll feel safer there. my brain will be on, have been exercised and I’ll be amongst …
Charming,sensitive
you like talking and the sound of your voice. I like listening and playing your accent. you give what you want and …
Modelling
I could have been a model, so I haven’t been told: I do not have a neck which could commercially be sold. …
Glass Box In Vision – Part 3
I wilt and I thin For glassier days, Of insects on the playground. Sun scorched tarmac Warm to my heart, My golden …
Glass Box In Vision – Part 2
Oh’ man in the moon… Thou art lunatic, In looks, In race, And in mind. Oh’ you are so distant From this …
Glass Box In Vision – Part 1
To calm my heart And quench my need, Hold me close to your harvest seed. Give me what Belongs to me I …
Glass Box In Vision
Glass Box In Vision was produced in 1985
Show Biz Superstar
A selection from “Show Biz Superstar” by Scott Hill. Originally 81 works spanning August 1988 – August 1990 Executive producer: Bobby Bristol …
Fat Cat’s First Book
Fat Cat’s work is copyright April 1989 S.C Hill Originally a Rush Job production for Scottsburg Productions.
East India
A selection of East Indian overtones. East India was published in 1987 by Scott Hill. Copyright S.C Hill 1987, Patent S.C Hill …