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In which there is the Totnes Garden Trail, starring Snake, Long Crippler, Toad, and some stray sheep
While I was in Totnes in Devon I managed to fit in a town trail walk at dusk (with apologies for the dodgy low-light caps) which was a circular walk linking three urban community gardens via a local water source known as the Leechwell ( Read more... ) -
In which there are knowing one's place, and breaking free from convention
- Reading, books 2016, 159
156. Cluny Brown, by Margery Sharp, 1944 (during wartime paper rationing, and quickly reprinted too), but set before 1939, is another of Ms Sharp's offbeat novels. This is primarily our working class heroine Cluny Brown's bildungsroman, with her coming of age at around 21 as was customary, with a supporting character as ( Read more... ) -
In which there are close encounters of the religious kind, presence of mind, and absence of god
- Quote of the [current reading]: In point of fact his women to date numbered only two, both dancing teachers, with whom his relations had been limited to rather half-hearted scufflings on divans, and it was for this reason that he had not joined the Oxford Group. He could not bring himself to publicly confess that his most poignant erotic memory ( Read more... ) -
In which there are Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Birmingham, and JRR Tolkien
- Yesterday was Mandela Day and one of my favourite actions for social justice inspired by Mr Mandela's memory was the South African Premier Soccer League donating 67,000 packs of menstrual sanitary pads to underprivileged girls ( no, rly). :-D I also enjoyed Unicef tweeting an old Associated Press photo of a boy from the Maitibolo Cultural Dance ( Read more... ) -
In which anti-heroic personal odysseys aren't only jobs for the boys
- I watched the Absolutely Fabulous film in a cinema matinee full of silver ladies who laughed their arses off throughout, and were still giggling in the ladies loos afterwards. It's like the series but less tightly scripted for laffs and with the wider vistas that movie money can buy. My favourite cameo was Jean Paul Gaultier deciding to ebay ( Read more... )
