Sometimes, these cold March days when the wind comes from the north east, and rain arrives, some afternoons I find myself laid out on my sofa with two dogs along side me, my arm over the faithful Kali (who has never been so affectionate), and at my feet or at a safe distance from the alpha… Continue reading Bobji 12 weeks
Science Cafe – Fast and Slow thinking – March
Professor Laura Bowater chair person for the evening 1. Dr Gary Barker, Research Leader of the Institute of Food Research http://www.ifr.ac.uk/research/scientists/gary-barker/ Risk adverse when we loose, but risk prepared if we are to gain. eg Loose 90 or win 100. How do we decide if we go to the doctor or not? Influenced by the book THINKING… Continue reading Science Cafe – Fast and Slow thinking – March
The Golden Dream – Film
Harrowing, brutal, beautiful, the journey of 3 young boys from Guatemala to the the land of honey and freedom the US. The journey incorporated the the Mexican wall which I saw for the first time. I didn't know that one already existed. The director cut his teeth working with Ken Loach on Land and Freedom, and… Continue reading The Golden Dream – Film
Science Cafe: Sex Art and Genes
February 2017 Professor Phil Gilmartin UEA and John Innes - Professor of Sciences. A fascinating talk about the PRIMULA VULGARIS - Common Primrose, and PRIMULA VERIS (Common Cowslip) which have two different and distinct styles of reproduction PIN FORM - a long pin like stamen with male pistils are half way down THURM FORM - Thrum… Continue reading Science Cafe: Sex Art and Genes
Monkey mind
And there it goes again the argument packaging the point of view chattering away all inside the head As I’m walking in a landscape the last 10 minutes of which I’ve passed unobserved. Unobserved the blossom of the wild pear, the death of a fly the impeachment of Trump As the chatter meanders like the river… Continue reading Monkey mind
Worth of Hales
Inspired by Corminboef by Robert Rehder Writing on a Saturday with Michael and Dean. 'Actually we're both international poets' says Dean with satirical humour. While he's to the Land of Trump for 12 days on a poetry workshop tour (inspired I think by the late Thomas Lux died too young), Michael is a day or… Continue reading Worth of Hales
Bobji
I collected the bundle of Bobji in a snow storm - an English one where nothing really settled, but it caused a mild flurry. Her first ever snow, her first journey in a motor car. Fixed by nervousness, she lay down in the cage. Kali, totally unaware of this revolution that was about to take… Continue reading Bobji
Obhama care
Trump two weeks
An exercise. These are bizarre unconventional times, with an avalanche of trumpeting tweets, executive orders trouncing over diplomatic politics, alternative facts which don't matter - or do they?, no time to draw breath, let alone digest, assimilate, protest, as the next arrow arrives. Effective strategy? Action of a sane man? Protectionism gone rampant? Uncomfortably similar to… Continue reading Trump two weeks
Moon
Sara and I are studying the moon, she's my moon buddy. She's good. Rigerous. And she has a better view than I in the woods, for she has a panorama out to sea. Our first joint revelation is that the moon rises in the east and sets in the west - ie same as the… Continue reading Moon
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