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This time took my road warrior skills to go again to jolly England with the Le Shuttle train service (see post), and my Ford ; towing along my good boys and wonderful Rex! It was a very nice trip going into the countryside and seeing several towns of wonderul architecture and history, This one is a […]
The Museums of Oxford !!!
Take a journey across space and time with the work of Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė’s epic film installation at Tate St Ives which ends 12th April 2026. Inspired by West Cornwall’s landscapes and tides, you’ll step through towering screens arranged like ancient stones and explore moving images of underwater worlds and mythical creatures. I thought […]
Tate St Ives
Erich Fromm transformed psychological and philosophical writing by giving it a more human voice. Writing in clear, accessible English, he explored love, freedom, and identity as lived experiences. His work bridged disciplines and brought complex ideas into everyday language, shaping how modern society understands the self, relationships, and emotional life.
Birth of Erich Fromm (1900–1980) — The Thinker Who Humanized the Language of Psychology
It was that day again. Car service and MOT day when I have to ditch the car and find something to do as returning home is not possible unless I walk 2 miles uphill and 2 miles back down again on a road without pavements in some parts. Or get an expensive taxi. My old […]
as I was going to St Ives…
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This is Amersham !!!
This time took my road warrior skills to go again to jolly England with the Le Shuttle train service (see post), and my Ford ; towing along my good boys and wonderful Rex! It was a very nice trip going into the countryside and seeing several towns of wonderul architecture and history, This one is a […]
This is Amersham !!!
One of my informal reading aims for 2026 is to read Olivia Manning’s Levant Trilogy, which, together with her earlier Balkan Trilogy, forms The Fortunes of War, a superb, largely autobiographical series of novels based on the author’s experiences during the Second World War. Viewed as a whole, the series offers a unique insight into […]
The Levant Trilogy (Books Two and Three) by Olivia Manning
The Ukrainian émigré Alexander Voloshin arrived in Los Angeles a year before Henri Coulette was born in the city on November 17, 1927. For much of the next three decades, until Voloshin’s death in 1960, the two men shared the same terrain, and it’s very likely that the young Coulette saw a good deal of […]
Simply Human: Henri Coulette and Alexander Voloshin
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Savages and Beasts
excerpt Despite all the atrocities the Indian children have experiencedthe system couldn’t change them, couldn’t mould them totheir ways. Why these kids can’t become like the proselytizingAnglos? What keeps them and sustains them and they remainIndians? How these savages know how to maintain their beliefsand way of life despite the efforts of the occupiers and […]
Savages and Beasts
Aaronovitch is back in form with this 10th instalment of the “Rivers of London” series. The series has been muddled, mediocre and meandering since Aaronivitch finished the “faceless man” part of it (the first seven books of the series, most of them very good), but this one flows well and is a fun book to […]
Book Review: Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch
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