This I posted to facebook with trepidation – the situation is so unpleasant that it feels like a radical act to even publise an alternative point of view. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH35raTPVu8&w=560&h=315]
Monthly archives: September 2014
the Califano clan…
During our time in the Ardeche we visited Claude Califano and her parents Gaetan and Monique. How long is it since I have seen them? 30 years at least. What was strange about being with them again with their wayward daughter Claude is quite simply that nothing had changed in a sense. Everybody looked exactly …
dolmens, blood and pools
We went on a walk. A mythical walk. One of those wonderful meaningful and completely fortuitous series of events which are the very nature of embodied ritual, religious life and yet have no meaning at all. It’s just the story. Gaetan, Claude Califano’s father, who had been a keen walker on his retirement, had given …
Charles Henry Neal at Ypres
Charles Henry Neal was killed on the front line in Ypres on 21 January 1916. He was my paternal great-grandfather. I never heard anyone talk about him because nobody I have met even knew him. My grandfather would have been only four or five when he went off to war and never returned. My great …
Ukraine
The situation that is developing in the Ukraine is of course profoundly disturbing. What I am finding most disturbing however is the attitude not of Russia but of the Western powers and the European Union. The Ukraine is not a nation state like say for example France, with a very long history of struggle to …