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Sitting under my washing drying from the raising heat of the fire, Yuka reminded me of her family story as she reflected on a cross roads of her life. Maybe fore the first time I know her exact age too, 56; she is over 10 yeas younger than I at 68. I knew more about… Continue reading Yuka

A second murder in a week of peoples lives. Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, who went to the aid of protecting a woman pushed to the ground by ICE. He was shot, point blank, 10 times. We all saw it. "The victims are Border Patrol agents," Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, told… Continue reading Flood (and lie to) the zone – the killing of Alex Pretti

Big Conversation:Migration and Immigration / January 2026 Halesworth Greens were invited to a friendly gathering to discuss the complex topic of immigration. The proposal was to explore 3 questions: The facts, the Green view, Our view. It was full and colourful and it didn't go exactly to plan. On a dull January Sunday morning 16… Continue reading Migration and Immigration – Invitation

Invitation & Background reading Rev Dr Keith Brindle Jan 15, 2026Robert Jenrick’s defection from the Conservative Party to Reform is not just another Westminster reshuffle. It marks a further step in the normalisation of far-right ideology under the guise of being “centre-right”. In his speech announcing the move, Jenrick returned again and again to a… Continue reading Migration and Immigration – notes

Who controls the narrative? I feel drawn to this event, the other side of the word. In horror at the violence and interpretation, in sympathy with a fellow human being, a woman, whose last words on her easy smiling face were "That's fine dude I'm not mad at you" and his words: "Fucking Bitch". Her… Continue reading Flood (and lie to) the zone – the killing of Good

Going through old papers, clearing my metaphoric and physical desk, opening old draws, I find this anniversary: twenty years ago, 2006 January, completed the sale on Metfield Stores. It was one hell of a year. Not only the venture in to a village shop and all that rich tapestry of village life, but also the… Continue reading Metfield Stores at 20

Not even a year in office and the first Regime change - in Venezuela. A brazen assault not just on a sovereign nation, but on the “America First” agenda, oil first, a blatant resource grab. Barrels of oil is not all the same. Ed Conway on Venezualia oil. Who believes narcoterrorism as the apparant justification?… Continue reading Flood the zone – 11 months Venezuela

I am quietly pleased with this modest walk, 15K from front door to the sea, this year of feeling limitations of body. Through the start of the walk, all known paths, I noted the doors that are now closed, that physically I can no longer do. However, remembering a mantrra of Paulo Coelho recommended, I… Continue reading New year day walk – from front door to the sea

It’s been 3 years since I was here, and not walking a river system, free unencumbered by obligation of family (no mother father, husband, child). Here I am, in my adopted family at Maidens. We share familiar stories of our pasts, we know each others ancestors, Uncle John, Elspeth, Barbara making the brandy butter, now… Continue reading Maidens 2025