We’ve been fracking conventional reserves since we’ve been extracting gas, ie 1940/60/90, off shore and on shore. Freckinf unconventional reserves mainly in us since 90s. Water provides the hydraulic power. Water 95 , sand 5, chemicals, 5 12 swimming pools of water. But far more in leakages wastage. 1/2 recovered and reused. Is it safe?… Continue reading To Frack or not to frack
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London Suffolk
(WordPress does not work - an exhaustible problem with having flushed my cookies - so this is the old fashioned log being recorded. ) London A stranger to me now, I am drawn to old haunts like my grandmother was drawn to bygone stories - which used to drive me mad. As I sat outside… Continue reading London Suffolk
Akenfield screening in Southwold
The initiative of Waveney and Blyth Arts, and introduced with his usual calm intelligent and humorous easy way by Brian Guthrie. The book was in my mothers book case. It is in her time that it came out (1969) and was an instant success. She must have read it and joined the conversations around it.… Continue reading Akenfield screening in Southwold
Folk East 2023
Folk East - a measurement of time It was the year the Hop Inn was as large as the CobboldI ran out of curtains to deck the tent wallsBike wheel chandeliers hung from the ceilingAlmost foiled, as not fire proofed butSaved by John who found spray in Beccles.My Notting Hill curtains found in a charity… Continue reading Folk East 2023
Rethinking climate change
Notes from radio 4. PLEDGES and Progress Why gap between pledges and reality so vaste? Politics and policy. What worked, what didn't and why. Two blocks - politics and money - who pays, this generation for future generations, rich for poor, so many have got rich on fossil fuels. Politics - how to make changes… Continue reading Rethinking climate change
Oppenheimer
Christina and I went to the film shortly released, in comfortable Aldeburgh. She sent this excellent piece by New York Times, in which Einstine calls Oppenheimer a 'narr' ie fool to subject himself to the Kangaroo court. Parallels with today, and Trump and Putin: Today, Vladimir Putin’s not-so-veiled threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in… Continue reading Oppenheimer
Wakelyns with Maddy
Organised by Maddy for our Farming Cluster, I accepted late. I am deliberately early, time to dally - my new mantra - let the eyes land on stories of lives in the homes, I pass. I notice how well the Alebasters trees are growing. Planted 15 years ago along the road side, they are twice… Continue reading Wakelyns with Maddy
Funeral of Rene Saran
I tried to make it by the van failed - warning light came on. But luckily now, and made popular during Covid, was a live streaming from Green Acres Epping Forest. Linda, Rene's neice, wove the weft of her life. She introduced Rene, by this common thread. She had family but through her life, community… Continue reading Funeral of Rene Saran
The visit of old friends – Leslie and Robert and Rupert
How many years ago did we meet in the basement of Earls Court Square, an unlikely coupling then as now, we became friends. An attraction of differences, which fitted well together. Now, time passed, we have the addition of our past, including tentacles each others friends we met along the way, linked to us at… Continue reading The visit of old friends – Leslie and Robert and Rupert
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