Hi Rachel! I was stoked to receive your long newsy letter what an amazing person you are who is touching a lot of hearts and not only helping people but also the planet with all your tree planting - my real proper eco warrior oldest friend. I did look for you in the movie you… Continue reading Sal
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Walking with friends – Christmas 2023 – Blyth 1 & 2
I am staying put, not moving. It is too challenging with Kali, needing night time pees, and he needs a known and certain landscape to walk in. Although I will miss the warm welcome and cosy family gathering and cooking at Maidens, I am also content not to move, and in that space it has… Continue reading Walking with friends – Christmas 2023 – Blyth 1 & 2
Solstice 2023
For the first time in a long time, I did not venture to the Locks to witness the Old Glory coming across the marshes, their torches on fire. It was a different day. Rupert and I rose when it was still dark and set off with lights on for Southwold. There we gathered with Mell… Continue reading Solstice 2023
Barbara
As I turned 66, at Tinks, she found some old photographs. Some of Barbara, younger than my age now, some of me aged 15 in Alpbach. Walking with Alou, and sunning outside How mill with Zandy
Community
Stephen at 93, greeted me. "Welcome, and good to see you. You are someone I definitely know, not only the name". The theme was various degrees of memory. Fading and remembering. We reminisced back to the old school days, recalling names, the moment Jenifer and Owles broke out of the cockloft onto the roof. Provoked… Continue reading Community
Robert Booth
December 9th, Robert calls me, and reminds me it is my birthday. He does this every year. I imagine he has a calendar of birthdays, with people he has met throughout his life. It is a pleasure to hear from him, to be taken back to then. I hear that voice. Once a continuity announcer… Continue reading Robert Booth
Reith Lectures 2023 – Agreeable disageement
For the first time in 2 decades there are more closed autocracies in the world than democracies. We do better than democracies - Lower infant mortality, higher literacy, tend to grow faster. Successful democracy is how we create agreeable disagreement. How to resolve our disagreement peacefully. Vocal descent. Institutions of liberal democracies - courts, civil… Continue reading Reith Lectures 2023 – Agreeable disageement
Crib
On a perfect dull dark damp day, I retrieved two christmas boxes from the dungeon of storage in the shed, and so unpacked the memory of last year and some of the years before, captured in the air that they were put away in. Whosh. Along with it inevitably, regret, of what not done, in… Continue reading Crib
Nautilus objections
I strongly object to the NAUTILUS project connecting at Friston on these grounds. 1. Overwhelming cumulative impacts from National Grids proposed Sea Link, Lionlink and Nautilus and EDF Energy’s Sizewell C will detrimentally affect East Suffolk communities, loss of visitors and destroy our heritage coast and environment. 2. OFGEM are aiding, without consultation or consideration… Continue reading Nautilus objections
Lord Deban on Climate Change
Quay Street Church, Thursday 26th October. The Right Hon. the Lord Deben, the former chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, previous Secretary of State for the Environment and MP for Suffolk Coastal, now sits outside in the Lords, speaks openly against Government failure to act decisively in response to energy River Deben Association’s Autumn.… Continue reading Lord Deban on Climate Change
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