BeginningsMichael asked me to come to Australia with him in his kitchen. Fresh back from Texas, and with tooth ache, he extended this invitation, unexpected, unperturbed by Yuka who was with me, in a disarming straight forward way. For the last few months we’d been walking then working together on Tuesdays, clearing up Tamsyn’s rich… Continue reading Australia with Michael
Shard
Pre Brexit mix of international waiters. 2 Italian 1 Slovakian. 1 Hungarian. It's the Hungarian who intrigues. Tamsyn would have drawn him. But on the other hand he moved too fast. 'How is the food? Lovely' he responds without waiting for you. 'Thank you' gone. Barry and I find an easy altercation. Those lights that… Continue reading Shard
Christopher Titmus
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.
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
Trump on Climate change
This is just for the record, so I can read it in 10 or so years times (when I will be 70!), and remember. The first event that happened was wild fires in California, claiming the lives of nearly 1,000 people, and not in poor slum areas, but in the well to do quarters of… Continue reading Trump on Climate change
Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2018
Re reading last years notes, and once again grateful for the recorded memory, I transcribe for Sara: “The wind is a gentle southerly. The moon is almost full. My moon sister comes to the 2nd row to give me a hug. Her father has just died. She is fragile, and she is an orphan.” There… Continue reading Aldeburgh Doc Fest 2018