Yet again, my past returns and weaves in and out of my present, even into a future. It's Richard again, who keeps popping up unexpectedly. Little did I know then how this would echo on, within our private conversations over Guinness in pubs around Bexhill where he'd come to retire and ultimately to die in.… Continue reading One of our Aircraft – Robin Holmes book
Author: kalikellett
Traveller, habitual writer, dog walker, East Anglian, woodland owner
Lockdown Fox&Goose dinner
Theatres, pubs, restaurants, all social hubs of air molecules of moisture emanating from our chattering mouths potentially carrying and passing on COVID19, are all closed. Each finds it's way of opportunity. To some it may be taking the furlough road, getting all those jobs done in the house and garden, or exploring the B roads… Continue reading Lockdown Fox&Goose dinner
Lockdown Thursday
The 'non essential' shops opened this Monday, although I have not been in to my market town to see the queues, or the look of a busy Thoroughfare. The repeated recent vocabulary of 'key workers' and 'non essential shops' has given a perspective as to what is essential in the life. Health and well being.… Continue reading Lockdown Thursday
Overstory
Reccomended for Book Club - very mixed uptake. See below Central point - a giant redwood, yes a metaphore. Scathing review in Guardian. We are spoon fed/Mad hat plot. Olive Vendergaff the novels inevitably beautiful pixie dream girl. Novelist who use environmentalism . Premises for dystopian fantasisies as iin Cormac Mc Carthy's The Road, or… Continue reading Overstory
Elderflower Cordial
Two years ago I saw Ruth on her way to gather elder flowers to make cordial, it's easy she said. But I don't have time, I said to her. I remembered this moment, and not having time, it stayed with me like a ghost tapping me on the shoulder, and making Elderflower symbolised 'I don't… Continue reading Elderflower Cordial
Black Holes
Black HolesPDF The talk given by DASH - Darsham Astro, in which I began to understand Black Holes.
Images of June days
Some images of this time the first few days of June. Forest School zooming, going well and collaboratively between Mell, Rachelle, and I. The sex lives of trees is being revealed for the first time in my life (kaliwood.wordpress.com). Walking the dogs with long shadows, on familiar paths. At last I stayed the night in… Continue reading Images of June days
Rumi and Guests
Trump at Lafayette Square
Following the death of George Floyd, killed by a police officer, his knee in George Floyds neck, America arose. Peacefully, in the tradition, mainly. The reaction, led by the Commander in Chief in the White House, was outright aggression, the tough hand of the rule of law. This time he's surely gone too far. This … Continue reading Trump at Lafayette Square
Family – Much Hadham & Maidens
The day the two burner Mighty stove came to the wood. Courtesy of Rupert. Much Hadam with Candy and Edward - we met half way from our homes, the first time, then on to Tinks and Clive at Maidens, delicious Sicilian wine, exchange of lockdown stories, and feelings, keeping relative distances. Moths in the morning.
