Christopher's first retreat took place in McLeod Ganga, Dharamsala in 1974. 2019 is the 46th year of Christopher and his team offering retreats. Incidentally, he says, the Buddha offered teachings for 45 years from the age of 35 to 80.
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Vos by Patrick White
Published in the year of my birth 1957 Voss, a foreign man, is announced and enters the room of Laura Trevelyan. He was distressed by the furniture. ‘With rough persistence he accused her ofthe superficiality which she herself suspected.At times she could hear her own voice. She was also afraid of the country which, for… Continue reading Vos by Patrick White
Through Lotti’s lens – Aldeburgh Cinema
Great Yarmouth walking
Dinka, Martin, Mandy, Pauline, Martin, Rupert and Rachel, made the rendezvous on the South Quay, at the Southern Docks, outside the Nelson Museum, Great Yarmouth for an understated, hardly planned reconnaissance walk. I'd discovered the walk last year, alone with the dogs, and rocked up at the Hipperdrome seen the show and said, blast, gotta… Continue reading Great Yarmouth walking
Success of Fen Raft Spider – Lopham and Redgrave Fen
SHEILA TILMOUTH , HELEN SMITH FEN RAFT SPIDER RESIDENCY Discovered in 1956 at Redgrave and Lopham Fen It lives in the margins of pools originally dug for peat and is dependent on the saw sedge found there. The species has been threatened through degradation of its wetland habitat due to water extraction and pig and… Continue reading Success of Fen Raft Spider – Lopham and Redgrave Fen
Trump news at 2am
I'm up at 2am for some reason. As I write up the adventurous day to commemorate Heligoland and an unusual gathering of Kelletts that is not a funeral, I catch up on breaking news, which being international, is thankfully not the politicing of Brexit, but rather the 'larger than life', rainbow colourful, and sad at… Continue reading Trump news at 2am
Laurence returned from Siberia
The first Dr Who remembered
'It's not my first blue plaque,’, explained Michael. His first was Noel Coward. But even so, I felt honoured to be invited to accompany Michael - it was after all Dr Who. (MUSIC FADES UP) William Hartnell was the first Doctor, and Michael, fresh out of Oxford and a youthful 20, was directing one of… Continue reading The first Dr Who remembered
Festivals 2018 – Buddhafield
Buddhafield July 2018 “And where is your voice from?’ a Navaho Indian returned my question to him back to me, and suddenly Suffolk seemed so far away and I am so relieved to find this field which kept reminding me of India all those years ago. I tried but could not hold Henry’s suggestion to… Continue reading Festivals 2018 – Buddhafield
Festivals – July 2018 – Lattitude
This was the year of festivals, I'd written it into my New Year resolutions and I actually did it. Late developer or what. I booked WOMAD, Buddhafield, Henry told me of Buddhafield, the usual Folk East, and Latitude. This write up has never been finished, but I'm putting in the few notes I took then… Continue reading Festivals – July 2018 – Lattitude
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