I was invited to see the first screening of Nowhere, a film by an American writer based on his time in Cornwall. I met many of the cast and crew and was impressed by the engaging story and the way in which these professionals had come together to create Tim’s first movie, screened at a…
Month: December 2022
The Prison of Hegemony
We are not ruling. We do not elect people to positions of power who are able to do anything for the prison we are in from thousands of years of creating ever more sophisticated chains of money to author our day-to-day lives. We elect bankers, nothing more, and the ops we are offered to placate…
Community
I walked up to the old container next to the shed in the field and found one of the stop-end plastic valves had come away in the cold and water was gushing out. As this is our spring water I went to my neighbour and within fifteen minutes we had a new valve in place….
Don’t you just hate colds?
They just bring you down, make your eyes water give you chills and wipe out your plans for days at a stretch. What are they for? These bugs hang around a population and transfer because of inadequate hygiene and I made the mistake of shopping again without gloves or masks. Big mistake. the last three…
The Promise
The birds had scantly noticed As I hanged above their nest, Which they built of moss and leaf For their young to take their rest. I was no ugly duckling When the squirrels laughed at me And threw me paw to paw Beneath my parent tree. But I’ll remember fondly, All their laughter, all their…
The Strange Royalty
There is much talk about the British royal family but it is the same as all the others. The shoe-horning of people into unnatural positions and deifying them for centuries does not breed any normality. Being bowed to from your first days does not give you a sense of commonality. It isn’t designed to. But…
Frost and Chill
After a very mild November in which the grass continued to grow (not something we are used to) it has become a frost December. The fields are white in the mornings and the birds hungry. I have, as yet, not closed the window in the kitchen because fresh air-flow keeps the bugs at bay but…
Once Again
Yesterday after months of watching and infiltration German security forces arrested a cadre of men and women who were plotting to try to bring down the government and install the monarchy. Naturally the papers call this an attempted putsch which has come at the wrong time – you need a pool of disaffected working class…
A Little Education
Because of the choices we had to make at school I dropped Geography and Biology and joked for years that I didn’t know what I was or where I was. But the idea that there are things we have to learn in order to be employable has always jarred with my sense of freedom and…
A Winter of Strikes
The UK, entering what may be a decade of economic hardship, is facing a winter of strikes. Some quite unexpected. Nurses, coffin makers and ambulance staff are among the groups with train workers finding that government doesn’t care about them. If you have a group of workers whom you consider so vital they should not…