Author: kalikellett
Traveller, habitual writer, dog walker, East Anglian, woodland owner
Great Yarmouth walking
Dinka, Martin, Mandy, Pauline, Martin, Rupert and Rachel, made the rendezvous on the South Quay, at the Southern Docks, outside the Nelson Museum, Great Yarmouth for an understated, hardly planned reconnaissance walk. I'd discovered the walk last year, alone with the dogs, and rocked up at the Hipperdrome seen the show and said, blast, gotta… Continue reading Great Yarmouth walking
Success of Fen Raft Spider – Lopham and Redgrave Fen
SHEILA TILMOUTH , HELEN SMITH FEN RAFT SPIDER RESIDENCY Discovered in 1956 at Redgrave and Lopham Fen It lives in the margins of pools originally dug for peat and is dependent on the saw sedge found there. The species has been threatened through degradation of its wetland habitat due to water extraction and pig and… Continue reading Success of Fen Raft Spider – Lopham and Redgrave Fen
Trump news at 2am
I'm up at 2am for some reason. As I write up the adventurous day to commemorate Heligoland and an unusual gathering of Kelletts that is not a funeral, I catch up on breaking news, which being international, is thankfully not the politicing of Brexit, but rather the 'larger than life', rainbow colourful, and sad at… Continue reading Trump news at 2am
Trump on Climate change
This is just for the record, so I can read it in 10 or so years times (when I will be 70!), and remember. The first event that happened was wild fires in California, claiming the lives of nearly 1,000 people, and not in poor slum areas, but in the well to do quarters of… Continue reading Trump on Climate change
Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2018
Re reading last years notes, and once again grateful for the recorded memory, I transcribe for Sara: “The wind is a gentle southerly. The moon is almost full. My moon sister comes to the 2nd row to give me a hug. Her father has just died. She is fragile, and she is an orphan.” There… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2018
Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s White House
I almost didn't go. Tempted to continue with the mountain of garden work. Each year something added, Hedgequarters from last year.
Laurence returned from Siberia
The first Dr Who remembered
'It's not my first blue plaque,’, explained Michael. His first was Noel Coward. But even so, I felt honoured to be invited to accompany Michael - it was after all Dr Who. (MUSIC FADES UP) William Hartnell was the first Doctor, and Michael, fresh out of Oxford and a youthful 20, was directing one of… Continue reading The first Dr Who remembered
Socratic Dialogue Training London – Reflections
Reflections on Socratic Dialogue training London October 2018 It was the gentle process of reaching a consensus that I took away with me that weekend, with Dieter Krohn and the Secret Society of Socratic apprentices who’d first met at the Eagle, Cambridge those heady August days. Deiter and the girls for were all women, all… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue Training London – Reflections
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