How do you make a country smaller? By trying to make it great again. How do you make it great again? By making it smaller and part of something bigger. Today, with a trade deal, we leave our fellow tribes people, our fellow Europeans. A day to weep.
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The Plague Year 2020
Do you remember the year that Mars was bronze bright In the south and dimmer beside Jupiter was Saturn.It was Sam, the workaway, who reminded me tolook up, that winter he came to coppicein my wood. It was just after Graham diedthat the virus came, and we learned a new word Coronavirus or COVID-19Do you… Continue reading The Plague Year 2020
The Plague Year
Do you remember the year that Mars was bronze brightIn the south and dimmer beside Jupiter was Saturn.It was Sam, the workaway, who reminded me tolook up, that winter he came to coppicein my wood. It was just after Graham diedthat the virus came, and we learned a new wordCoronavirus or COVID-19 Do you remember… Continue reading The Plague Year
Halesworth days
Glorious mist and frost, never fails to wake me up and tantalise me out into the land. Michael reading Wilding this morning, all about soil, poignantly at the end of the book, after all that it's all about soil, our skin, the giant carbon sequestor, the nutrient giver, the source of medicine and food.
To keep or not to keep a book?
Email to Halesworth Library Book Club As you know, I personally would like us to continue albeit on Zoom. But if course it is up to you all. I’m not here tonight to zoom, but Maggie has kindly said she would chair. Yay, back the old days, (it was Maggie who inspired us to begin… Continue reading To keep or not to keep a book?
Trump
Today the GSA declared president-elect Jo Biden the 'apparent' winner of the US election, clearing the way for the formal transition from Donald Trump’s administration to begin after weeks of delay. However, over 70 million still voted for Trump and Trump along with a majority of GOP senators still refuse to recognise Biden's win arguing… Continue reading Trump
Sashi Dhoj Tulachan
A short text from Subha announced that a Dhoj Tulachan has died of COVID in Kathmandu, read on my phone while staying the night in the cabin in the wood, and I assume it is Sashi. The memory of our first and last meetings flow through the night mind. It is in fact his brother,… Continue reading Sashi Dhoj Tulachan
End game of Trump
In an absurd way I will miss him. Miss the crazy kick in from a side field, the sacking of another minister, the lies, the terrible lies, the absolutes, the biggest, the best, the squeeze box hands, the denial of climate change, the calling of names, the obvious narcissism, the meandering speeches. Why? Yes, I… Continue reading End game of Trump
Intrepid honey buzzard completes spectacular journey to Africa (Alan)
(This from Alan Miller from Wenhaston) A young European Honey Buzzard, satellite tagged by the Roy Dennis Foundation at a nest near Forres, Scotland, in mid-August, has already reached the African continent – albeit via a remarkably risky route that included two long sea crossings. The bird, '620', was tagged on 11 August and remained in the vicinity of… Continue reading Intrepid honey buzzard completes spectacular journey to Africa (Alan)
Paul Vodden
Paul Vodden, our East Anglian Coppice Network co-founder with Andy Basham, friend and colleague, sadly died 1st October 2020 aged 71. Our thoughts are with Caroline his wife and their daughter Alice. He was a great supporter of the NCfed and it’s goals and according to Andy Barsham a pun supremo. I glimpsed a little… Continue reading Paul Vodden
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