Email to Robert December 2024: I am sitting in a farrow and balled sufolk pub, eating pigeon breast after a 8k walk in gentle mist. The breast is tasty but the knife is not sharp enough. Somehow I think of you. After many years it is the first time u do not call on my… Continue reading Robert Booth to Richard Haggis
Patrick Stead – DRAFT NOTES
All the above from a book found in the Pear Tree and photographed. Halesworth Museum documents Brief background to today (Information from internet and various sources) 1882 bequeathed as a medical centre to Halesworth Town by Patrick Stead, named after the maltings businessman. 1948 Bevan, then Minister for Health and Housing, announced the formation of… Continue reading Patrick Stead – DRAFT NOTES
Flood the zone 3 – Tariff war
It was called 'Liberation Day', when Trump, holding up a low tech sign, handed out his tariffs. The Universal baseline tariff of 10%, reached heights for the 'worst offenders - Europe 20%, China 34%. "The markets are going to boom, everyone wants to know how to make a deal. It is the new “golden age”… Continue reading Flood the zone 3 – Tariff war
Sarah Touquet 1980 and today
It was finding out that Robin Touqet had died, (there is much discovering of old friends who have died now, but that's for another story) that spurred me to contact Sarah and she came. Yes, she came up to Suffolk. We'd seen each other, quite briefly and in my mind a blurred memory, in London… Continue reading Sarah Touquet 1980 and today
Flood the zone 3
Tarriff war. Donald Trump threatens 200% tariff on EU wine and champagne/ Wall Street sinks as Trump threatens 200pc tariffs on French wineTrump’s steel, aluminium tariffs: How are targeted countries responding? This is very long, but is the only piece of journalism that, to me, explains exactly what Trump is doing, and how to beat… Continue reading Flood the zone 3
Flood the zone 2 – the eruption
Like a parent to a child at the end of a birthday party, Vance repeatedly demanded of Zelenskyy: Have you said thank you? Guardian full meeting on Video: A meeting at the White House between Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump descended into a bitter argument in front of the press in extraordinary scenes… Continue reading Flood the zone 2 – the eruption
Regret and roger deakin
Finally, months after serena died, I started listening to rage swimmer, Patrick Bareham’s unusual memoir of roger deakin. I’d met him but once, with bob in the de la pole arms, wing field at his request to talk about the woods of India. I have only a feeling of knowing so little of them and… Continue reading Regret and roger deakin
Flood the zone
The first month of Donald Trump as President of United States January 20, 2025, inaugurated as 47th president. Week 1 Formally pardens around 1,500 defendents criminally changed with involvement of the 2021 Capitol attack Signs 26 executive orders repealing Biden era's directives expanding border enforcement reversing climate iniatives, renaming Gulf of Mexico Gulf of America… Continue reading Flood the zone
White Flight
By contrast, rural areas are usually more socially homogenous and conservative. Their population typically combines long-established residents, suspicious of the ways of cities, coupled to what is sometimes described as ‘white flight’ by people seeking a more traditional and less diverse community. It is no surprise that in our region Norwich, Ipswich and Colchester tend… Continue reading White Flight
Bishop Mariann Budde
During her homily at the National Cathedral today, and with Trump sitting in the front row, Bishop Mariann Budde did what so many other Christian leaders have failed to do. She boldly spoke truth to power. “Millions have put their trust in you. As you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand… Continue reading Bishop Mariann Budde
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