Author: kalikellett

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

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A video record of the celebration of the life of John Macrae at the Cut Halesworth, December 2025. Made by Rachel in collaboration with Gill Hayes-Newington Music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness. Rights kindly wavered by Boosey and Hawkes for this personal use. https://videopress.com/v/jL26nuz2?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fvideos.files.wordpress.com%2FhhiBwm2t%2F2025-john-macrae-v3_mp4_std.original.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

I've not kept up with the mass of floods but this one reached deep lows. On the tragic death of Rob and Michele Reiner, by their son Nick 32, this is what Trump said: (Rob the remarkable film director, Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Stand by me, When Harry met Sally) "Trump took to social media… Continue reading Flood the zone –

Act 1 - the monsters "The old world is dying the new world is struggling to begin. Now is the time of monsters" (Should I read Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibben? Think I'll stick to Evelyn Waugh) Today leaders of the shameless, the most culpable, the least scrupulous. eg USA -… Continue reading Reith Lectures 2025 -Dutch historian Rutger Bregman

I photographed the crib montage I created this weekend: out of the Smith Crisp box now almost disintegrated, out of the pig shed, where it is kept all year round, out of storage where it had been kept for years since packing up 35 Quebec Road, emerged a dozen or so clay figures, each wrapped… Continue reading Beginings and endings

Both Michael and I are of the vew that all the films are too long. We both sleep through moments and hope they are not the same moments when at the end we try to piece together the red line. We start in Row P, my first time being so far back as I am… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest at 30 – 2025

It does seem unfair, the balance between the flood of untruths that come out of Trump and this singular one. It was a big singular one. It did influence me at the time: How can Trump incite the people to fight, I wondered at the time.