Tim will always have a place in this wood. After the auction, after the 20 days, after the payment of the complete amount I took a bottle of champagne to the wood, with a chair and a glass, and the dog Kali naturally. I emptied the bubbling wine, walked the edges of the wood, watched… Continue reading Tim, Isle of Sheppey and Maidens
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Lack of Agency
Charlie’s been visiting here in Suffolk for a few days. I wish I’d had a pen and written down. Irrelevant now except to recall the desire to capture his words, so keen and often poignant. ‘Don’t be so hard on yourself’, I remind him as he chastises himself again. I sleep all the time. I… Continue reading Lack of Agency
‘Mind over matter’: Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary Sciences brightest star.
From Auriole
I often talk about you with people about how you basically gave Dad such a lease of life in his last years How you helped us all get through the eleven years of what it was like loving, caring and trying to help a triple amputee. I've sought you out for ages. You were a… Continue reading From Auriole
2018 Europe with the 3 S’s – Spain
Spain - football, Dali, Guardi, El Grecco, tomatoes, Bullfighting, Civil War, omlets, inquisition, Hemmingway, Ferdinand and Isabella, Picasson's Gurnica Lloret de Mar As we arrived at our first camp we have our first explosion and I walked off to find the sea. What was it about? A curtailment of freedom. B needed his familiarities more… Continue reading 2018 Europe with the 3 S’s – Spain
Out of kilter
UN Climate change meeting ends on Bonn today and it’s way down the pecking order of news on Radio 4, well after the usual headlines of Brexit. This particular morning I fell so profoundly that my tribe is so distracted with endless Brexit squabbles, and is missing the big picture, and thereby so am I… Continue reading Out of kilter
Sylve
Glitter on her eyes, sparkles on her coat, a mobile phone container studded with sequins around her neck, Sylve stepped out of Natasha's car at East Lodge. Was it two years? My old school prefect. The drama - for there was always a drama - was the death of her younger brother, Luke, the one… Continue reading Sylve
Sofka
Long after we knew each other in London, while traveling through Bulgaria, I went to her namesake city. I sent her an email from a camping sports centre, and got a one liner back. It made me realise how I missed her. Isralie Ashkenazi, PhD Doctor in child psychology, bright combative, she refused to discuss… Continue reading Sofka
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Controlled Ruination
Controlled RuinationDownload Controlled Ruination 2012, Orfordness with Mendham Poets, Tamar and Rochelle Nesting birds and unexploded bombs: Beware,Take care, to keep to the tracks. Do notDeviate. We are the National Trust in us To keep, preserve this heritage of oursWhich in this case is all to do with LAND This Ness or Nose, this vegetative spit… Continue reading Controlled Ruination
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