Magdalene rings the single bell, calling the faithful to church, a sound and movement timeless, shooting me back to when I was dressed in red, smaller, full of life a ahead. The choir rehearses, Teresa and Moira, their voices clear as water falling from above. The community has gathered, for one of their own. Walking… Continue reading Titch’s funeral
Late Quartet – film Halesworth Cut
Late Quartet, film at the Cut. Unexpectedly beautiful and it’s feeling remaining with me. It was Bob who introduced me to Beethoven’s late quartets. The film opens, quietly observing the internal dynamics of the Fugue String Quartet, an internationally acclaimed musical group founded and based in New York that has been playing around the world… Continue reading Late Quartet – film Halesworth Cut
High Tide in Halesworth
High Tide 2014 High Tide arrived in Halesworth this year accompanied with rumours that this may be the last High Tide festival in Halesworth, that after 8 years they are leaving for the more sexy/prestigious/practical/more younger generation/ richer Aldeburgh or Norwich. Their arrival was immediately noticeable. The high street was no longer dominant with… Continue reading High Tide in Halesworth
Regeneration
Regeneration by Pat Barker (February 2014 - Halesworth Book Group) Pat Barker B 1943 / LSE. / Teacher of history and politics / Regeneration 1993 A soldiers declaration, July 1917. Resonant with the Anti Gove Gove: “Our understanding of the war has been overlaid by misunderstandings, and misrepresentations which reflect an, at best, ambiguous attitude to this country and, at… Continue reading Regeneration
All Quiet on the Western Front
I finished reading All Quiet on the Western Front last night. Like Primo Levi's account of his time in Auschvitz, it had the same (thankfully) lack of politics and judgement, rather his direct experience of the human condition in such extreme circumstances. Curious, I was interested to read of Erich Remarque's life. His subsequent books - I gather - do not… Continue reading All Quiet on the Western Front
Dorset 2014 – New Year.
Tolpuddle - one of the many puddles - museum to the Martyrs was closed. One of the six, George Loveless, was represented in a fine Epstein like sculpture (large hands and feet) outside the museum. Without knowing the details of their story, I am impressed with the success of the protesting campaign which effectively returned… Continue reading Dorset 2014 – New Year.
If not now, when?
From Halesworth to Istanbul, overland with Kali the dog, 2013, full form told in Tumblr: http://kalikellett.tumblr.com/archive/ Here are exerpts
Returning Party in Halesworth
The star of the show missing. Kali kidnapped by Barry.
Srebrenica 2013
They know why we are here, us passing tourists. We feel their look. No eye engages ours. We dare not ask directions. We do not know To whom we talk, Bosniac or Serb In this town of Srebrenica still Divided, unresolved, this fine October day, Twenty years on. .. But it is not difficult to… Continue reading Srebrenica 2013
10 Istanbul
The Greece Turkey border was the most official I’d encountered so far with army men and woman in advance of the border patrolling the near by river boundary. Queues of stationary lorries waited in blistering sun for the authority to pass or fail. Once through, however, the only administration was the compulsory green card for… Continue reading 10 Istanbul
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