07 May 2020 Eat Your Weeds Foraging for food. By Amelia Power Ever since my two-year stint in Australia I have been fascinated by foraging. Inspired by Aboriginal bush tucker and the abundance of edible plants, fruit, roots and fungi which I discovered whilst travelling the deserts and beaches in my trusty van, I found… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: Eat Your Weeds
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Issue 232: 2020 05 07: The Dating Game
07 May 2020 The Dating Game Later Plantagenets. By Chin Chin The dates of eight Kings already learned? Make it up to the round dozen with four more Plantagenets. Remember the rules of the game. You have to learn the dates of each king and the date of one event (to be chosen by you)… Continue reading Issue 232: 2020 05 07: The Dating Game
Issue 231: 2020 04 30: The Dating Game
30 April 2020 The Dating Game The early Plantagenets. By Chin Chin Well, have you used your new knowledge yet? Do you drop into conversation things like “Tell me, Matilda, are you named after the Queen or the Empress?” If so, you will be losing friends fast but who wants friends who are ignorant about… Continue reading Issue 231: 2020 04 30: The Dating Game
Issue 230: 2020 04 23: The Dating Game
23 April 2020 The Dating Game Faites vos choix. By Chin Chin Are you fed up with putting up shelves? Have new ways of knitting lost their attraction? It is time to stimulate the little grey cells and to find out whether yours are the best in the house. It is time to play the… Continue reading Issue 230: 2020 04 23: The Dating Game
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Social Distancing
16 April 2020 Social Distancing Cumbria by Vic Leader Week 1 – 24/03/2020 One week ago I took the scientific advice and adopted Social Distancing. These are my observations from that first week. I cannot recall an earlier week in which I have spoken to more people. All by phone, Internet, etc, not face to face,… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Social Distancing
Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Easter
16 April 2020 Easter Service The Shaw Sheet For the benefit of those who were prevented from attending Easter Service by the Covid pandemic and would prefer a more formal setting than the Archbishop’s kitchen, we provide a link to the very beautiful pre-recorded service streamed from St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield. Happy Easter.… Continue reading Issue 229: 2020 04 16: Easter
Issue 224: 2019 11 21: St Ives in Winter
21 November 2019 St Ives in Winter Artists, fishermen, tourists – a community. By Lynda Goetz I was going to write about the ‘attractive challenge’ of sexism posited by Clarissa Farr, the former High Mistress of St. Paul’s School for Girls; or perhaps the issues of historic sex cases now that the case against Julian… Continue reading Issue 224: 2019 11 21: St Ives in Winter
Issue 223: 2019 11 14: Crisis? What Crisis?
14 November 2019 ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’ Winter of Discontent II (2023) By Lynda Goetz The Wrights perched on stools around their kitchen island. John Wright’s heavily lined face looked weary as he peered at the Ludo board in the dim light of the two candles. He was reminded of his childhood, which was not something… Continue reading Issue 223: 2019 11 14: Crisis? What Crisis?
Issue 221: 2019 10 31: A Halloween Demo
31 October 2019 Halloween Demonstrations Even the dead are protesting. By Neil Tidmarsh It’s halloween. A crescent moon – as bright and cold and sinister as a psychopath’s smile – looks down on a graveyard where a sharp wind chases yellow and black leaves around the tombstones like a werewolf scattering its prey. But the… Continue reading Issue 221: 2019 10 31: A Halloween Demo
Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Book Club Psychedelia
19 September 2019 Book Club Psychedelia High on literature. By Neil Tidmarsh Inmates of some of Her Majesty’s prisons are still being deprived of reading material sent to them from outside, five years after the high court overturned justice secretary Chris Grayling’s ban. Why? Mystery compounds scandal. This week, however, an explanation was forthcoming; we… Continue reading Issue 215: 2019 09 19: Book Club Psychedelia
Issue 209: 2019 07 04: Hampton Court
04 July 2019 Hampton Court Palace 2019 Garden Festival. By Lynda Goetz My father always maintained that a photograph which needed explaining was not a good photograph. I felt he had a point, although on occasions a title might be useful; but does this apply to all artistic endeavours? Not all of us understand music… Continue reading Issue 209: 2019 07 04: Hampton Court
Issue 207: 2019 06 20: Country Matters
20 June 2019 Country Matters Moving swans. By Lynda Goetz Down here in the Devon countryside, far from Westminster, we have had our own little drama this week. For the last couple of months our neighbours have had a young swan on their pond. His parents made their home on another pond nearby, which was… Continue reading Issue 207: 2019 06 20: Country Matters
Issue 205: 2019 06 06: Hay Festival
06 June 2019 Hay Festival 2019 Something for everyone. By Lynda Goetz “Did I mishear you say that the anti-Vietnam war protesters were naïve?’ asked the grey-haired woman indignantly when questions from the audience were invited. We had been listening to Max Hastings, veteran war correspondent and historian, giving a talk about his latest book,… Continue reading Issue 205: 2019 06 06: Hay Festival
