Kim to Trump: You are a mentally deranged dotard Trump to Kim: Obviously a mad man. Rocket man Mexico earth quake. Huricains in Windward Islands. Rohinger refugees in Bangladesh Tansyn dieing. Her last letter.
Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s Spring Festival
I almost didn't go. The garden pulled, so much to do, this great doingness, spring action, drive, (reminding me of Norway with its limitation of spring summer). But I did, and as soon as I walked into the gallery barn, I breathed out, in that way I have done before here. for so may reasons.… Continue reading Lawrance Edwards at Jason’s Spring Festival
2018 Europe with the 3 S’s: Portugal DRAFT
DRAFT - VERY DRAFT! Portugal 2018 The ALGARVE Tavira We left our little community. Biding farewell to the Germans and the Dutch neighbours, giving out what remained of our strawberries. Out passed the Professor or so many languages. The Che Guevara van, the Dutch dog breeder, out Passed the young fit runners. The rest after… Continue reading 2018 Europe with the 3 S’s: Portugal DRAFT
2018 Europe with the 3 S’s – France
Romford RoadWe were ill prepared. The camper preparation barely considered. Barry threw in 5 coats and loads of shirts and I was not much better. Sag had replaced the leisure battery but it was untested. England was cold. With surprising ease I booked Le Shuttle to take us to Europe. It was a last minute… Continue reading 2018 Europe with the 3 S’s – France
‘Mind over matter’: Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-obituary Sciences brightest star.
Conrad
In later teenage, I considered that the ideal life would be one without many wants or base ambitions, based on a minimum of economic striving, and given to thought and creative expression – probably framed in some degree of solitude. Thoreau and Herman Hesse were whispering in my lug-hole… Then I got distracted by politics,… Continue reading Conrad
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
Walkie Talkie – Sky Garden
Eileen Haring Woods inspired. A photo of her and Michael and the caption Free, invited. Easy to get there - bus, underground and a short walk from Bank, along Lombard Street with the building like a bowing flower head at the end. All glass. 20 Fenchurch Street was designed in 2004 by Rafael Viñoly, a… Continue reading Walkie Talkie – Sky Garden
2018 Journey though France
Why The idea was born out of Barry's suffering. Caught in Mauritania, expressed in China, Barry was returned to the UK with full blown shingles in 2017, diagnosed and treated late, it had manifested in his head with terrible scaring on the surface, and deep pain inside. Even the tough East Ender could not deny… Continue reading 2018 Journey though France
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