Category: Halesworth – Films/Festivals

Out of the blue, Serena offered me a ticket to accompany her. I was over the moon, as Imtiaz Dharker would say. John Sampson, noticably the only man, serenaded each woman poet, with a trumpet fanfare, the tune relevant to the geography of the poet. Two from Scotland, Jackie Kay and Imtiaz Dharker. Compassionate gentle… Continue reading Shore 2 Shore, Aldeburgh with Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, and Serena

A screening prelude to the Cut's coup of Michael Ondaatje coming to our Cut theatre next Tuesday. How many times had I seen the film? No matter as refreshing and good to see it again, anyhow, and on the Big Scene. Timeless it is. That time in all our geographies and times when we are… Continue reading The English Patient (Cut cinema)

Surrounded by paintings, all with stories, and Gills clothes, in a proper double bed, in Rectory street, Halesworth, on the coldest February night, east wind from Siberia. One painting, Edwardian? of a young blond haired girl carry faggots of hazel on a woodland path, Peter had found in bombed out London, where the oil was… Continue reading At Gills

Gorleston felt  along way away, and I’d only do it for a computer. With some sheepish shame and genuine surprise I discovered without it working how much time I spent on it, and relied on it. Evening - turn on the computer, check emails, get lost in Facebook. After a fleeting thought - live without… Continue reading Great Yarmouth unexpectedly

What a coup, we thought, Robert Sheldrake coming to the Cut. Sara, it transpires, has enjoyed him as her tutor when she studied at Schumacher college. He has twinkly eyes, she said, but somehow did not feel intimate on a one to one. She was right about the eyes, and I never got the one… Continue reading Robert Sheldrake at the Cut

We celebrated Laura Bowater becoming a Professor and with her came her new book 'The Microbes Fight Back’. I was in charge of selling - we did 17 copies. Dr David Johnston A general medical practitioner, gave an overview from the front line. Enormous changes since he began to practice, 26 years ago: Life expectancy has increased… Continue reading Science Cafe: Microbes Fight Back – Nov 2017

Not sure if I was going to make it - Barry down with the acronym after Shingles and hit bad. But I did, driving up from London in the Boxer camper. This year, no Rupert and an addition of Bobji. Two dogs and I, November, Aldeburgh. The Doc Fest is under new management - Jill… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2017

Trump to Kim (in one of his signature stream of consciousness speeches in Hunstville on Friday night) Little Rocket Man Kim to Trump 'mentally deranged dotard” Meanwhile Tamsyn dies, Richard deteriorates. Huricans wreck lives and livings. The last letter of Tamsyn stays with me all day. I write up my notes from when I last… Continue reading Outside and inside