Listening notes: While you have Big Star’s Radio City (1973) on the turntable, listen to the track What’s Going Ahn.

Reflect on how you would leave things if you knew that you wouldn’t get a chance to come back to them.

Gillian Finks left her papers in a mess. This story will need editing (eg for tense, grammar, spelling). This particular green tea slip is particularly sloppy. It’s almost as if she was on the ferry with Little Grapefruit and Michelle, writing it leaning on the railings, looking out over the Mersey, pencil falling off the edge of paper as the ship slipped out into the open sea.

Listening notes: dial up Susumu Yokata’s 2005 album Symbol. Listen to the first track, Long Long Silk Bridge. Think about things you have always wanted to do, and make plans to do them.

The Masters Student, AKA Fiona Finks notes the following: My Mum usually uses a propelling pencil. But for this post she appears to have used an ordinary HB. There are none of the marks from snapped leads.

Using “diplomatic”, as it’s called in archiving, tells me that it’s her work. Familiar themes. The right handwriting. Her preferred type of tea slip.

Listening notes on the back that refer to Train Track Noises, a track from Keith Holzman’s Authentic Sound Effects, Volume 2. There are some familiar sounds elsewhere on the LP that my Mum would know.

Listening notes: enjoy with a meal of chicken or tofu in sage and orange sauce, listening to Sinking by The Cure

Fiona Finks explores her mother’s papers, discovering her answers to some of the big questions:
– what does Little Grapefruit eat?
– how much kibble to give the cats

Listening notes: sketch a picture inspired by this post while listening to Nora Belle’s LP Crunch. Stop and reflect during the song Orange. Then start to colour in your sketch using pencils or paints.