Rickshaw wallahs and other stuff
19
Sep
What good am I, if I know and don’t do? If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you. If I freeze in the moment, like the rest who don’t try. What good? Am I? Bob … Read More »
India – metaphor for life
18
Sep
“Slowly, sir! Walk slowly!” He’s in his prime, well built with upright bearing: neatly trimmed beard still black; polished tan shoes and pressed shirt arcing over a respectable paunch to suggest a man of substance. A man to heed on such matters. He’s right of … Read More »
Girls’ rugger
14
Sep
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Walking the Cotswolds Way
12
Sep
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Wild camping: top tactics 4 top tacticians
5
Sep
In ten days time, September 15, I fly to India for a month in Rajasthan. I was last in the state – most of it never under direct British rule – in 1974, despite fabulous memories of its people as … Read More »
Perilous days
3
Sep
In a Sputnik article last month, replicated in the excellent Off-Guardian, Pepe Escobar gives a useful appraisal of the conflicting interests of China and the USA in the South China Sea. It’s a well informed piece and I recommend it, though … Read More »
Shakespearean insult generator
30
Aug
Thanks to Vaska for the Shakespeare insult link. Thanks to Caroline for the Mailer-Vidal story. At a Manhattan soiree attended by writers with egos the sizes of small planets, one Norman Mailer, displeased with a stinking review by Gore Vidal, … Read More »
Corporate totalitarianism: Huxley nails it
27
Aug
I never did read Brave New World. But when Tree Fitzpatrick, an American unknown to me, agreed yesterday on Facebook with my view of Hillary Clinton, I looked her up to find this on her timeline. As the west sleepwalks … Read More »
Wet, warm and windy in West Wales
22
Aug
Jackie and Charis stayed with Trish and Hugh near Aberystwyth last week, then spent three days riding near Lampeter. Steve, Jeni and Charis’s pal Emalise were driving to a Friends of Bolivia reunion near Machynlleth on Thursday so I hitched a ride, and all six … Read More »
High Water Rising
17
Aug
Most if not all the major religions born of the neolithic revolutions – Hinduism, the Abrahamic faiths and the myths of Classical Greece – feature a Great Flood. “One hypothesis argues for a catastrophic deluge about 5600 BC from Mediterranean into Black Sea”, says … Read More »