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Posted on January 21, 2020 2 Comments
I had high expectations for this film, but ended up disappointed, as happens so often with films. I do worry that there are common factors that make many modern films problematic – some of which I cannot mention due to the reaction I would receive from certain quarters. Nevertheless, I found myself continuously disappointed with […]
Reducing waste
Posted on January 11, 2020 1 Comment
We all know plastic can be a bad thing and that we need to reduce its use. This is the case throughout the world. When I was a child in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s we did not really have a big problem with waste in the same way – though we had […]
Mysore to Tranquilandia
Posted on December 25, 2019 Leave a Comment
Today we drove a little over 200km and saw something of rural India. While we in the West are, or appear to be, horrified by the levels of poverty in India, while visiting there is nothing to be done about it except pay tourist rather than local prices. India is extreme in terms of how […]
Driving in India
Posted on December 22, 2019 Leave a Comment
We arrived in India very early on Friday morning. On Saturday we picked up a rental car, drove it 20km plus through the middle of Bangalore, went to a wedding, and then today, Sunday, we drove down to Mysore, around 150km. So what, you might say? Well, everyone I meet tells me that you have […]
Craiglockhart
Posted on June 23, 2019 Leave a Comment
I am delivering a public lecture in Edinburgh on Wednesday evening at the site of the World War One hospital for war trauma, Craiglockhart – made famous because Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were treated there for war trauma, and because Pat Barker used it extensively for her regeneration trilogy. The lecture is about the […]
