Drugs, Death threats, Alfred Dreyfus and Pastor Niemoller
Another instalment of my autobiography before I revert to my normal blogs Alfred Dreyfus, the Frenchman wrongly accused of spying, and the victim of twelve years of imprisonment, trials and injustice,...
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Nelson Mandela in his prison cell Another instalment of my autobiography before I revert to my normal blogs Late one afternoon Patrick arrived home deeply disturbed. Throughout all the threatening...
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TOur home in the forest This is the last instalment of my autobiography before I resume my normal blogs I asked the Salvation Army’s Missing Person’s Bureau to find my mother when I was nearly fifty....
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What’s wrong with a stiff upper lip?
The East End of London during the Bitz. The woman on the right lived in the bombed building opposite. Their food was cooked on a campfire in the basement. Victors or victims? These thoughts came to...
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Comfort and Calm in the Crisis
This is the first day of our NZ lockdown. We are in self-isolation in our forest, enjoying peace, solitude and solicitude. Not just words, and offers of help from our little caring community, but the...
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Take a knee
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” Said Henry Kissinger. I had thought of these callous words when I copied the food for thought in my last post: “The...
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The Soldiers –‘A Richer Dust Concealed’
The beginning of July is pock- marked for me with remembrances, memorials and history… the birthday of my father, the day I shattered my leg four years ago, spending two and a half months in hospital,...
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On my birthday a few weeks ago, a friend sent me an elegant doorstop with a note saying she hoped this would not prevent her coming through my door again. When I wrote back I included the words of an...
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The Light of the Sun
The light of the sun Item from UK Guardian :’ Pictures of a visibly injured Mariana Vishegirskaya leaving the maternity hospital were targeted by a vile Russia disinformation campaign accusing her of...
View ArticleThe fog of war
Another day, another search through news headlines, Youtube videos, TV news, on the spot reports, to find some hope that the war will end, that right will triumph over might. Wion, and BBC, Caspian...
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