With Michael we watched this film on a blustery March Monday night, in an empty and comfortable Leiston cinema. It did not surprise me Michael knows of a good fish and chippy where we eat before hand. It's a road trip, between two culturally and racially different people, both sympathetic and amusingly repulsive, interacting with… Continue reading Green Book – film at Leiston
Martin Wolf
Second day back from Australia, Jo casually mentions, a friend of yours is very ill, you know the organic farming man in Metfield. Martin Wolf. Blast, oh why did i not find time to see him before I left? Regret is huge. He kept being put off my imperative list, because he was something I… Continue reading Martin Wolf
Umi and Science Cafe
As I sat next to Umi, in the packed first Science Cafe of the year (Anaesthetics - It's a Knock Out), I realised I didn't have a photo of her, which was unusual due to her beauty and careful decoration and due to my habit of collecting photographs. Here one is, disappointingly in the dark,… Continue reading Umi and Science Cafe
Australia with Michael
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
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