Lost and Found in E11

Apiary, midday - 8th December 2013.

Field Study's Man in E11 is trying to liberate himself from a slippery slough of domestic despond; a proverbial and apocryphal hole he has dug for himself. I stood at the edge of the hole, peered into the darkness and listened to his wormish despondence. .  I admonished the field student. 'You dug this hole. You  can bloody well dig yourself out of it!' He protested, he pleaded. 'I didn't dig this hole. I fell into it. It's a trap!!' His pathetic protestations slid out of hearing and I decided to look for a more genuine and determined field student from whom to gain insights about recent encounters in the field of Lost and Found in E11, E17 & ......... . I found Cryptoforestry on the magic carpeted edge of Amsterdam. We drifted out into the Anthropocene via Vinland, Ta Prohm, Shanghai, the Amazon, El Salvador - dipping in and out of various zones of anthropogenesis. Our drift about the rambunctious garden (left to itself) ends (or ended) here...

We think a fox has chewed at the side of the polytunnel (of Love Supreme). There were several areas of scratches and holes, including what appeared to be incisor-like patterns of toothy penetration. We have protected the side of the polytunnel before with chicken wire and we may well have to re-install that mesh to prevent more damage. Field Study's Man in E11 was, however, grateful for the foxes' demonstration of creative mark making. The fox's example may be useful in the process of making maps - to recreate an archipelago of windows through which to view and explore the rest of the allotment site.  I am disappointed by the field student's efforts in cartography. He has taken to making excuses for his lack of creative thinking and progress in the field. Last night he tried to convince me that a dog fox had eaten his fieldwork. I said, 'dog's dinner this may be but pull the other one'. Anyway, if the field student is failing to ma...

Where has Field Study's Man in E11 been since 3rd November? 14 lost days! I found him drifting between the newly formed islands - Utopias 1, 2 and 3 - in the firmament of, The Polytunnel of Love Supreme. He was in a microscopically wretched state, rag and bone, his clothes as chewed and ragged as the allotment's polythene firmament. When I addressed him as, Field Study's Man in E11, he seemed confused and uttered a name, Will Farnaby, repeatedly, as if I was subjecting him to an interrogation. When I soothed his fevered brow he assumed another name, that of, Robert Maitland. Island and Concrete Island had merged deliriously in the lost days of early November. I had to employ some more subtle techniques by which to coax or elicit a more lucid account of the early days of November 2013. By an elaborate combination of winks, twitches, eye movements and linguistic ploys, I programmed him to tell me a story I wanted to hear. The story is called, 'Downcanal'.  In...

The field student felt some trepidation when he approached the allotment site as he had not been there since the storm earlier in the week. What havoc might have been reaped by the winds? The damage appeared slight with the 'kale forest' worst hit...... ...... though not quite as drastically  as some street side trees he encountered at the time of the storm.  Mile End 28th October. The nights have drawn in and there is much to do about the allotment site in less and less time. Weekday evening visits have stopped and, bar working by headlamp, the work days of the weekend now finish around 5pm (and will do sooner into the winter).  With this imperative in mind, the field student set about making a quick survey of the 11 corners of this humble patch of earth - an effort contrived to convince himself he might just know where he is sometimes. We have our doubts. The field student protested that no surveying should actually be carried out on site and...

towards a field report - in progress There has been a breakdown in communication here in Lost and Found in E11, between 'Field Study's Man in E11' (FSM) and 'Julian Beere' (JB). JB claims the poor communication (and consequent lack of emanation) is on account of the field student's unsustainable mental deficit. JB has refused to service the deficit by not putting his forefingers to the keyboard. To do so , he says, will only make matters worse. This post emanates out of a spurious intervention on the part of a third character by the name of 'Lost and Found in E11' (L&F). L&F has applied various skills in mediation to facilitate a sort of 'republicratic' compromise and thus reestablish communication between the imaginary raised bed fellows. JB - Field Study's Man in E11 produced a terrible map of the allotment site. There is no scale. There are no cardinal directions. Where is the key? The hand drawn rendering of the main fe...

26/10/13 - an A-Y of the allotment site. Herb Baths - Plot B - 20th October F2/G2