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Films with Michael
Le WeekendWith Jim Broadbent and Lindsey Duncan - re-kindling their long marriage, brilliantly performed. A dinner party with a bumped into colleague is the turning point. Broadbent and the stonned son conversation in a side room, leading directly to his declaration King Richard An overbearing bully; a distraction from his daughters’ careers: all of this… Continue reading Films with Michael
North Norfolk for Michael’s 87th birthday
On the dull overcast journey, across hedge less monoculture fields, we traced Michael’s birthday back in years. Last year in Magnolia house - appropriately his last birthday there, lockdown continued and I’d secretly orchestrated a manifestation of his play unbelievable. He and Gabrielle and the dogs sat in the back sitting room watching, Ben, Juliet… Continue reading North Norfolk for Michael’s 87th birthday
Kinda at Rumi away weekend – Jan 2022
Our last, and first, Kinda away weekend, (which in my day was known as Works Outing), was more than two years ago, at Breathing Space, Hickling Broad on the 1st of February 2020, (remember those days, when we'd not yet heard of COVID, while in China....). Here our tribe gathered, the first gathering, to find… Continue reading Kinda at Rumi away weekend – Jan 2022
Svarlbard
Over the past three decades, Svalbard has warmed twice as quickly as the rest of the Arctic region and seven times the global average.
Vijay
Our dearest Rachel,It is always a pleasure to hear from you,and to read your annual account for the past two years. Quite like you we revelled in the first year, with all the similar feelings and experiences, no traffic, no people, with the exception of not listening to any news. Finances were surely a worrying concern,and now… Continue reading Vijay
Dizzy s send off
Aged 92 she was, when she died December 2021. We gathered on a crisp clear January day to remember her, a gathering of girls now in their 60s, recalling ourselves as teens under the thrall of her famous raised eyebrow. Sketch, Tor, mina, Squashy Jackson, Sylve and I. S.M.John said to me. Yes I remember… Continue reading Dizzy s send off
Controlled Ruination
At a Green drink gathering this January night, we met by hazard two who had spent 8 years on the island of Orford Ness. Reminding me of the poem written 10 years ago now 2012, with Mendham writers, Rochelle and Tamar Yoseloff. Here it is controlled-ruinationDownload
Moon
Family zoom
Wonderful and still a bit magic to see you on all zoom,all the girls, with a few shadows of partnering men passing in the background. Here are some images of the great event of the night - the return of Kate's cat. Kate came on the zoom full of gloom for the missing beloved cat.Stories… Continue reading Family zoom