Mix Amylo

Morning Coffee

A short piece of writing, in response to the idea of ‘love in lockdown’, to be published in a collection of short stories in 2021. …………………………………………………………………………………. MORNING COFFEE Yes. It was this. Most mornings. Morning coffee, soft taste of Arabica, a wondering: will he answer, did he sleep well, is he more or less worried […]

Week Four of Spanish Lockdown

Friday 3rd April My dreams are even more vivid than usual, populated mainly by people I have lost in real life, swirlings of journeys that never end and stories that never finish. The worlds I visit in them are lighter places than the one we find ourselves in now; they’re filled with the usual convoluted […]

Week Three of Spanish Lockdown

Friday 27th March Two weeks since the announcement of the state of emergency. I take the bins out sporting a very fine orange mask, fashioned for me by my lovely neighbour. Never in my life did I think I’d be wearing a mask out on the street like this. Especially an orange one. Especially while […]

Week Two of Spanish Lockdown

Hi again. I hope you’re healthy and staying vaguely sane. Or insane, if that’s preferable. Which it often is. So, two weeks have already passed. Time is doing the opposite of slowing down, strangely. Week two of staying at home starts to feel like normal life, for all my occasional raging against it. In Spain […]

Week One of Spanish Lockdown – a glimpse into one tiny life

Hello. I hope you’re staying safe and keeping well. It’s been a while since I wrote a blog, but a friend suggested it, and although at first my feeling was no, I didn’t have anything startlingly original to say, a day later I started writing down some musings. Maybe it’s good to keep a record […]

book launch for ‘six months backwards’ – Órgiva

Thursday 25th October –  Ceramiq Art Studio in Órgiva BOOK LAUNCH – with readings from ‘six months backwards’ by nine friends, and live music (from Mix’s album ‘the hunter of small happinesses’) by Mix on piano and Bernard Gregor-Smith on cello. A beautiful, moving evening, with so many people there giving their support, and honouring […]

six months backwards – book release

This week Mix Amylo’s book ‘six months backwards’ is released as a paperback and Kindle, through Amazon. Originally a blog, written from April 1st to September 30th in 2017, it has the original concept of moving backwards in time; the beginning of the book starts six months after the event that transformed her life, and […]