Ken Loach Up the Junction, watched by a record of 10 million people, drew the most complaints to the BBC. Two years later Abortion was legalised. Chartists - must refresh my often quoted story of these. How all their efforts appeared useless but a generation later change happened. First day without Kinda Forest School voices… Continue reading Coronavirus Monday March 9 and Effective change
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Poetry with Dean and Michael – the two priests
View I am a dog or two downward sniffing at the earth picking up Pee Mails, and far to long hunched over a computer Another, though, comes out, looks up, wet nose to wind and moon, content not to know what happens next going with the flow, at poetry on Saturday (Another I am 5… Continue reading Poetry with Dean and Michael – the two priests
Sizewell
10 reasons why not (2018) The answer to climate change, clean technology, cost effective, modern. 1. Costs 2012 Hinkley £102 per MW hour / Offshore £39 (on shore even cheeper) 2. Takes years to build safely. 12 year. Delays. 3. Distraction. Cuckoo in the nest. Pushes others out of the debate, absorbes all social capital… Continue reading Sizewell
Time and Timelessness Aldeburgh February 2020
Our first day here, walking the beach, I read a text on my phone. Graham died. All day what ever happens is transitory to this truth. Andrew Marr came to open Caroline Wiseman's philosophy weekend Thursday evening in February. This moment and what he said is lost in time. Like many a person known from… Continue reading Time and Timelessness Aldeburgh February 2020
Window
At night I walk the dogs down station road Left side, I say. I pause. Inside a window, never curtained Home Sweet Home proclaim the panes is a room full of stuff, boxes still to be unpacked. A woman sits watching a small screen. Another beside her, her phone. Her companion, on the 2 seater… Continue reading Window
Science Cafe -DNA
Professor Chris Higgins, Bottomist to Humans We all came from a common ancestor: viruses, humans, oaks. Humans and cabbage share about 40-50% common DNA, while 98% of your DNA is common with a chimpanzee. 2002 Human Genome Project - last 5 years. One single mother who left Africa 70,000 years ago. Mitochondrial Eve Mary and… Continue reading Science Cafe -DNA
Michael
I didn't see the oaks then, nor the ferns, moss nor knew their names, harts tongue fern, Spanish moss I had not climbed the Rwenzori's then But I remember the green, the wetness The name Betws-y-Coed, the grey brick, slate. You rented a house, you came into my room. We found a Walter Grieve in… Continue reading Michael
Brancaster for Michael’s 85
It was Michael's idea to come to North Norfolk, and as we drove here, past memory on automatic, I see some reciprocal pattern evolving. Last year to Wales and Michael's bicycle past and now to Norfolk and my childhood past. Memories come round corners unexpectedly and I had not prepared or been prepared for this. … Continue reading Brancaster for Michael’s 85
Poetry with Dean and Michael and Carl
Doncaster Miners in Cork Street 'Where's t' bus? one asked to his mate, so bought me up short, for this was not Cork Street talk I thought as I walked towards Messums ahead, enlightened by its private view 'Laurence Edwards heads'. In that dark I recognised a face as he walked passed a handbag shop.… Continue reading Poetry with Dean and Michael and Carl
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