tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69232552024-03-07T14:03:55.732+00:00Herry's JournalA selection of writings, speeches, photographs and events as well as some of my favourite literary passages.Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.comBlogger793125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-65328141391649891142022-07-27T07:58:00.002+00:002022-08-03T08:20:29.870+00:00Herry's Journal Index<h3 style="text-align: left;">Latest Posts</h3><div><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2022/07/lawford-fmily-get-together-in.html">Family Reunion in Stockbridge and Holiday in the South of France July 2022</a></div><div><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2022/07/obituary-john-spreadbury-1931-2022.html">Obituary - John Spreadbury 1931 - 2022</a></div><div><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/07/alan-watts-quotations.html">Alan Watts Quotations</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/06/mottisfont-rose-garden-2022.html">Mottisfont Rose Garden 2022</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/06/favourite-gardens-houghton-lodge.html">Favourite Gardens - Houghton Lodge - June 2022</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/05/chelsea-flower-show-2022.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2022</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/04/what-is-tbe-price-of-electricity.html">What is the Price of Electricity?</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/03/going-solar-march-2022.html">Going Solar March 2022 </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/02/michael-ignatieff-on-consolation-book.html">Michael Ignatieff on Consolation - the Book of Job and the Psalms </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/02/favourite-world-radio-kpcc-at-893-fm.html">Favourite World Radio - KPCC at 89.3FM</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/12/lighting-garden-at-old-swan-house.html ">Lighting the Garden at Old Swan House</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-scuplting-of-my-bust.html">The Sculpting of My Bust</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-making-of-floretine-garden.html">Tbe Making of the Florentine Garden </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/giles-wingate-saul-1945-2021.html ">Giles Wingate-Saul 1945 - 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/10/stockbridge-in-age-of-coronavirus-dls.html ">Stockbridge in the Age of the Coronavirus - the DL's Visit </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 style="text-align: left;">
Poetry</h3>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/what-is-poetry.html">What is Poetry?</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/10/president-kennedys-speech-on-poetry-and.html">President Kennedy's Talk own Poetry and Art at Amherst (1963)</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.html">The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/four-quartets.html">Favourite Poetry - The Four Quartets</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/favourite-poetry-north-ship.html">Favourite Poetry - The North Ship</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/favourite-poetry.html">Favourite Poetry - Akhmatova</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/favourite-poetry.html">Favourite Poetry - Pablo Neruda</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/edna-st-vincent-millay.html">Edna St Vincent Millay - Love is not All</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/favourite-poems.html">Edna St Vincent Millay - Eight Sonnets V</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/favourite-poems-dirge-without-music.html">Edna St Vincent Millay - Dirge Without Music</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/favourite-poetry.html">Favourite Poetry - Poesie Mondaine, Bestemmia 619</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/favourite-poetry-john-henry-newmans.html">Favourite Poetry - John Henry Newman's 'Dream of Gerontius'</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/search?q=heine">Favourite Poems - Heine - A Young Man Loves a Maiden </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/favourite-poetry-ted-hughes-wind.html">Favourite Poetry - Wind</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/favourite-poetry-october.html">Favourite Poetry - October</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/favourite-poems-ithaca.html">Favourite Poems - Ithaca</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/favourite-poems-kindness.html">Favourite Poems - Kindness</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/08/favourite-writings.html">Favourite Poems - Beloved Earth</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/favorite-poems.html">Favourite Poems - C9th Chinese Poem on Old Ag</a>e<br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/10/favourite-poems-heraclitus.html">Favourite Poems - Heraclitus</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/favourite-writings.html">Favourite Poems - Beloved Earth </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/favourite-poems.html">Favourite Poems - Animals</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/favourite-poetry-stags-leap.html">Favourite Poems - Stag's Leap</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/favourite-poetry.html">Favourite Poems - The Wilderness</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/favourite-poems-no-man-is-island.html">Favourite Poems - No Man Is An Island</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/11/favourite-poems-wound-in-time.html">Favourite Poems - The Wound in Time</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/12/favourite-poems-shropshire-lad.html">Favourite Poems - A Shropshire Lad</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2012/09/">Favourite Poems - Any Woman</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/12/favourite-poems-gate-of-year.html">Favourite Poems - The Gate of the Year</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="xhttps://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/favourite-poems-second-coming-yb-yeats.html">Favourite Poems - The Second Coming -WB Yeats</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/11/john-keats-on-first-looking-into.html">John Keats - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-patience-of-ordinary-things.html">The Patience of Ordinary Things</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/favourite-poetry-ego-sum.html">Kei's Poetry - Ego Sum</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/keis-poetry.html">Kei's Poetry - The Dressing Table</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/keis-poem-for-obachan.html">Kei's Poetry - For Obachan</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/city-carol-service.html">Favourite Carols</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/favourite-songs.html">Favourite Songs - Kathleen Ferrier 'Land of Hope and Glory'</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/favourite-music-dame-janet-baker.html">Favourite Music - Dame Janet Baker</a><br />
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Writings<br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/story-of-fox.html">The Story of the Fox (The Little Prince) </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/favourite-writings-big-wolf-and-little.html">Favourite Writings - Big Wolf Little Wolf</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/09/favourite-books-louis-1-king-of-sheep.html">Favourite Writings - Louis 1, King of the Sheep</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2005/08/favourite-writings.html">Favourite Writings - Beyond Euphrates</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2015/12/favourite-sayings-jalaluddin-al-rumi.html">Favourite Writings: Jalaluddin Al-Rumi</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/goodbye-cameras.html">The Dazzling Fluidity of Days</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/favourite-places.html">Favourite Writings - The Lycian Shore</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/more-freya-stark.html">Favourite Writings - More Freya Stark</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/favourite-books-wait-for-me-by-debo.html">Favourite Books - 'Wait For Me' by Debo Devonshire</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/favourite-bedtime-books.html">Favourite Bedtime Books</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/favourite-book.html">Favourite Books - The Night Land</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/one-hundred-books-famous-in-childrens.html">100 Books Famous in Children's Literature</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/one-hundred-books-famous-in-childrens_2.html">100 Books Famous in Children's Literature - the List</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/favourite-sayings-jalaluddin-al-rumi.html">Favourite Writings - Jalaluddin al-Rumi</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/favourite-writings-bruno-schulz-august.html">Favourite Writings - Bruno Schultz 'August' </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2007/07/brazilian-adventure.html">Favourite Writings - Brazilian Adventure</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/favourite-writings-desiderata.html">Favourite Writings - Desiderata</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2016/07/favourite-writings-bernard-levin-on.html">Favourite Writings - Bernard Levin on a Wexford Opera </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/02/favourite-writings-ovid.html">The Lasting Legacy of Ovid</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-odonohue-at-glenstal-abbey.html">John O'Donoghue at Glenstal Abbey</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/things-we-learn-in-time.html">Things We Learn in Time</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/the-river-test.html">The River Test</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/stanzas-of-dzyan.html">The Stanzas of Dzyan</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/astavrakra-gita.html">Astravakra Gita</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/shankara-i-am-shiva.html">I Am Shiva</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/07/alan-watts-quotations.html">Favourite Writings - Alan Watts Quotations </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/baseball.html">Baseball by John Updike</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/song-of-solomon.html">The Other Song of Solomon</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/09/do-you-understand-climate-change.html">Do You Understand Climate Change?</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-economist-on-global-warming-july.html">The Economist on Climate Change July 2021</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/peace.html">Peace</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/06/blithe-moment.html">Blithe Moment</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/jane-austen.html">Jane Austen</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2007/06/edith-wharton.html">Edith Wharton</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/english-weather.html">The Song of the Weather</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/favourite-writings.html">The Snow Country</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/love.html">The Forms of Love</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/scientist-and-universe.html">The Scientist and the Universe</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/south-african-large-telescope.html">The Scientist and the Universe II</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/ruskin-on-pugins-roman-catholic.html">Ruskin on Pugin's Conversion to Roman Catholicism</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/bertrand-russells-nobel-prize.html">Bertrand Russel's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/vogues-book-of-houses-gardens-people.html">Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens and People</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/study-of-history.html">A Study of History</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/12/hannah-arendt-on-lies-and-propaganda.html">Hannah Arendt on Lies and Propoganda</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-oprah-winfrey-interview-view-from.html">The Oprah Winfrey Interview - A View from the Stands</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-bishop-of-winchester-steps-back-may.html">The Bishop of Winchester 'Steps Back'</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-church-closers-charter-and-other.html">The Church Closers' Charter </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2016/09/de-profundis-oscar-wilde.html">Oscar Wilde - De Profundis </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/04/history-of-intimacy.html">A History of Intimacy</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/aunt-sally.html">Wise Advice - Sally Brampton</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/more-wise-advice.html">More Wise Advice - Sally Brampton</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/life-by-bianca-sparacino.html">Life by Biance Sparacino</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/the-five-signs-of-lack-of-intelligence.html">The Five Signs of Lack of Intelligence</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/02/cognitive-biases_21.html">Cognitive Biases</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/book-of-kells.html">The Book of Kells</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/watching-english.html">Watching The English</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/de-profundis-oscar-wilde.html">De Profundis - Oscar Wilde</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/11/in-praise-of-cats-for-i-will-consider.html">In Praise of Cats - Christopher Smart</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/favourite-writings.html">Isaiah Berlin</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/12/ruskin.html">Favourite Quotes - John Ruskin</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/bertrand-russells-nobel-prize.html">Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/favourite-writings.html">Favourite Writings - Ecclesiastes</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/favorite-writings-friendship.html">Favourite Writings - Friendship</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/09/friendship.html">Favourite Writings - Love Undetectable by Andrew Sullivan</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/favorite-writings-friendship.html">Favourite Writings - The Tao Te Ching</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/favourite-writings-we-are-all-chained.html">Favourite Writings - Seneca - We Are All Chained to Fortune</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/existing-by-your-presence-alone-anais.html">Existing By Your Presence Alone</a> - Anais Nin<br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/03/thoughts-on-social-distancing-and.html">Thoughts of Others on Social Distancing and Lockdown</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-brief-history-of-plagues.html">A Brief History of Plagues</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/things-anti-vaxxers-told-me-this-week.html ">How Anti-Vaxxers Think</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/12/pushing-boundaries-by-michael-grey.html">Pushing the Boundaries by Michael Grey</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/04/treating-seafarers-decently-by-michael.html">Treating Seafarers Decently - Michael Grey </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/08/on-society-in-age-of-populism-edmund.html">On Society in an Age of Populism - Edmund Burke</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/12/john-le-carre-remembered-by-matthew.html">John Le Carre by Matthew d'Ancona December 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-conspiracy-theories-survive-failure.html">Why Conspiracy Theories Survive the Failure of their Prophecies</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/07/trump-big-lie-and-how-to-do-it.html">The Big Lie and How to Do It</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/04/wisdom-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-david.html">Wisdom Isn't What You Think It Is</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-makes-happy-home.html">What Makes a Happy Home?</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-satan-should-chair-your-office.html">Why Satan Should Chair Your Meetings</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-pandemic-has-killed-many-people.html">Vandana Shiva on Quantum Theory </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Comment</h3><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-coronavirus-story-january-july-2020.html">Stockbridge in the Age of the Coronavirus July 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/10/stockbridge-in-age-of-coronavirus-dls.html">Stockbridge in the Age of the Cornavirus II - the DL's Visit</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/post-eu-referendum-blues.html">Post-EU Referendum Blues</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/fracking-real-and-present-danger.html">Fracking - a Real and Present Danger</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/stockbridge-and-storms-of-february-2014.html">Stockbridge and the Storms of February 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/grave-threat-to-stockbridge-and.html">Grave Threat to Longstock and Stockbridge from Developers </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/destruction-of-winchester-college.html">Destruction of the Winchester College Wingnuts</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/winchester-nature-reserve-closed-for.html">Falloden Nature Reserve Closed to Walkers</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-curious-case-of-middle-lane.html">The Curious Case of the Middle Lane</a><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/09/some-inadequate-words-on-grief.html">Some Inadequate Words on Grief</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/12/william-tyndale-who-translated-bible.html">William Tyndale - the Translator of the Bible</a><br /><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/12/king-james-bible-and-book-of-common.html">King James' Bible and the Book of Common Prayer</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/08/for-love-of-dogs.html">For the Love of Dogs</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-curse-of-road-noise.html">The Curse of Road Noise</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6923255/6197248621619502386">Food Shopping in Winchester</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-end-of-cadogan.html">The End of Cadogan</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2012/03/food-shopping-in-winchester.html">Food Shopping in Winchester</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/10/in-praise-of-fluting.html">In Praise of Fluting</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/poison-of-bonuss.html">The Poison of Bonuses</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/role-of-insurance-in-financial-crisis.html">The Part Played by Insurance in the Financial Crisis 200</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-scourge-of-intensive-farming.html">The Scourge of Intensive Farming</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-joys-of-home-cooking.html">Thoughts On Our Food Culture</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2020/11/on-sport-of-shooting.html">On the 'Sport' of Shooting</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-mystery-of-crop-circles.html">The Mystery of Crop Circles</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/law-of-intended-consequences.html">The Law of Unintended Consequences</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/inequality-scourge-of-our-time.html">Inequality - A Growing Problem</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/illogical-arguments.html">Illogical Arguments</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/games-people-play.html">Games People Play</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/slideshows-and-little-prince.html">Slideshows and The Little Prince</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/goodbye-cameras.html">The Dazzling Fluidity of Days</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/early-june-morning.html">Early June Morning</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/joy-of-fishing.html">The Joy of Fly Fishing</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/big-issue.html">The Big Issue</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/confessions.html">Confessions</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/geography.html">Geography and How We've Lost It</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/highway-code-in-100-words.html">The Highway Code in 100 Words</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/joy-of-cricket.html">The Joy of Cricket</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="Which is better to live in, Spain or France? Done both! 21 and 19 years respectively… I've known cases of people who felt miserable in any of the two and had to come back home to feel well again, so take any advice as just an opinion: there is no possible objective answer. That said, as an anecdotal evidence, we were 6 (French) students from my school coming to Spain either to finish our Engineering training, or to start our first job right after graduating. That was in 1999… today all six live in Spain. I agree with the previous answer about job perspectives being sunnier in France, and wages higher (and the higher costs of living… well it depends on where you are! Paris is dearer than any Spanish cities, but in the province I wouldn't say so). I feel better in Spain because of the sunny weather (not comparable to France, especially the Northern half), but this is secondary when compared to the main reason: I feel more at ease with the Spanish character, welcoming attitude, sociability, you name it. A single example to make my point: Spaniards use an adjective as a derogative way to describe someone who thinks he's better than everyone else: guay. To make things difficult for us extranjeros, “guay” also means supercool in other contexts, but it's a different story. Anyway, a guay is the typical person who won't answer your question if you're not “at his level”. Someone who will let anyone know that he's studied at this or that prestigious university. Someone who will let you feel, without even needing to say it, that he's “too good for you”. Well, Spaniards have little patience for this kind of persons. It is part of their social culture: anyone not educated enough to make social life easier is quickly singled out by the group, and won't gain this extra prestige that he might have sought in the first place. Whereas in France, and especially in Paris, such a character is tolerated. Not appreciated (modesty is supposedly in high regard in our culture), but tolerated. Last point, maybe linked to the previous one: here in Spain everything is simpler. We in France had a surrealistic cartoon in the late sixties, very famous at the time, called Les Shadocks. The Shadocks were a kind of crazy birds who replicated our society’s shortcomings. Well, they had a saying: “pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué? ”, that is “why do simple if you can do complicated?”. And that's how I feel sometimes about my native French culture… If you are an artist, or are looking for nuances and complexity for whatever reason, go for France - whereas if you prefer a simpler life… I'd choose Spain. In my case I still feel French, and am very happy to visit my family on the northern side of the Pyrénées… but I am not going back. Cheers!">The Joy of Shaving</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/leonard-cohen-master.html">Leonard Cohen The Master</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/favourite-songs.html">Favourite Songs - Leonard Cohen</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/joy-of-youtube.html">The Joy of YouTube</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/farewell-tempo.html">Farewell Tempo</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/favourite-photos-rat-pack.html">The Rat Pack</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/lexus.html">The Lexus</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-beauty-and.html">Heron Wars in Stockbridge</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/favourite-pub.html">Why I Prefer Pubs to Restaurants </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/slideshows-and-little-prince.html">Slideshows and The Little Prince</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/treasure-islands-and-avoidance-of-tax.html">Treasure Island and the Avoidance of Tax</a><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/02/favourite-world-radio-kpcc-at-893-fm.html ">Favourite World Radio - KPCC at 89.3FM</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/02/michael-ignatieff-on-consolation-book.html">Michael Ignatieff on Consolation - the Book of Job and the Psalms </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">
Obituaries and Eulogies</h3>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/favourite-poems-dirge-without-music.html">Dirge Without Music</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/09/some-inadequate-words-on-grief.html">Some Inadequate Words on Grief</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/12/nicky-boyle-1946-1997.html">Nicky Boyle 1946 - 1997</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/rosie-jenks-1943-2005.html">Rosie Jenks 1943 - 2005</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/gopika-fraser-1962-2009.html">Gopika Fraser 1965 - 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/commander-colin-balfour-1924-2009.html">Cmdr Colin Balfour RN 1924 - 2009 </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/norman-buckingham-gamekeeper-1918-2010.html">Norman Buckingham 1918 - 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/rev-hamilton-lloyd-1919-2011.html">The Rev Hamilton Lloyd 1919 - 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/suzanne-lloyd.html">Suzanne Lloyd 1923 - 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/sally-macpherson-1940-2012.html">Sally Macpherson 1940 - 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/nick-duke-1945-2013.html">Nick Duke 1945 - 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2013/10/richard-shaw-1940-2013.html">Richard Shaw 1940 - 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/s-venkiteswaran-1941-2013.html">S Venkiteswaran 1941 - 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/joanne-louise-taylor-jo-johns-1939-2014.html"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Joanne</u></span> Louise Taylor (Jo Johns) 1939 - 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/obituary-ernie-stiles-1941-2014.html">Ernie Stiles - 1941 - 1914</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/lucie-skipwith-1942-2014.html">Lucie Skipwith 1942 - 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/annie-may-spawton-1944-2014.html">Annie May Spawton 1944 - 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://lawfordherry.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/kate-obrien-1953-2017.html">Kate O'Brien 1953 - 2017</a><br />
<a href="http://lawfordherry.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/bill-birch-reynardson.html">Bill Birch Reynardson 1923 - 2017</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/03/john-kay-1936-2019.html">John Kay 1936 - 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/penny-lawford-1944-2019.html">Penny Lawford 1944 - 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2019/09/lucy-luxmoore-1953-2019.html">Lucy Luxmoore 1953 - 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/02/beryl-williams-1947-2020.html">Beryl Williams 1949 - 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/giles-wingate-saul-1945-2021.html">Giles Wingate-Saul 1945 - 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2022/07/obituary-john-spreadbury-1931-2022.html">John Spreadbury 1931 - 2022</a><br />
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Events</h3><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/herrys-70th-birthday-party.html">Herry's 70th Birthday Party July 2015</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/lawford-lunch-at-drapers-hall.html">Lawford Lunch at the Drapers' Hall 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/winchester-college-50-years-on-dinner.html">Winchester College 50 Years On Dinner</a> 2014<br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/wellbeing-of-women-christmas-fair-2016.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2016</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/wellbeing-of-women-christmas-fair-at.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wellbeing-of-women-city-christmas-fair.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-wellbeing-of-women-christmas-fair.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/wellbeing-of-women-christmas-fair.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/drapers-christmas-fair.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/wellbeing-of-women-christmas-fair.html">Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/royal-hospital-chelsea-carol-service.html">The Royal Hospital Carol Service 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/royal-hospital-chelsea-carol-service.html">The Royal Hospital Carol Service 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/royal-hospital-carol-service-2011.html">The Royal Hospital Carol Service 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/royal-hospital-chelsea-dinner.html">The Royal Hospital Chelsea Dinner 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/fine-cell-at-v.html">Fine Cell at the V&A</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/fine-cell-work-at-drapers-hall.html">Fine Cell at the Drapers' Hall</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/fine-cell-work-at-leathersellers-hall.html">Fine Cell at the Leathersellers' Hall 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/fine-cell-work-at-leathersellers-hall.html">Fine Cell at the Leathersellers' Hall 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/fine-cell-at-glaziers-hall.html">Fine Cell at the Glaziers' Hall</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/drapers-almshouses.html">The Drapers' Almshouses</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/drapers-almshouse-outing-to-winchester.html">The Drapers' Almshouse Outing to Winchester 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/drapers-almshouse-teaparty.html">The Drapers' Almshouse Teaparty 2007</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/drapers-almshouses-teaparty.html">The Drapers' Almshouse Teaparty 2008</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/city-new-year-service.html">The Drapers' New Year's Service</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/united-guilds-service-2010.html">United Guilds Service 2010</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/04/united-guilds-service-at-st-pauls.html">United Guilds Service 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/mission-to-seafarers-carol-service.html">The Mission to Seafarers Carol Concert 2008</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/mission-to-seafarers-carol-concert-2009.html">The Mission to Seafarers Carol Concert 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/mission-to-seafarers-carol-concert-2010.html">The Mission to Seafarers Carol Concert 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/stockbridge-christmas-shopping-evening.html">Stockbridge Christmas Evening Shopping 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/rememberance-sunday.html">Remembrance Sunday at Litchfield</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/christmas-at-blenheim.html">Christmas at Blenheim 2016</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/winchester-cathedral-carol-service.html">Winchester Cathedral Carol Service 2016</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/the-winchester-portrait-exhibition.html">Winchester Portrait Exhibition 2017</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/sas-window-dedication-in-hereford.html">Dedication of 'Ascension' for the S</a><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/07/litchfield-flower-festival-2019.html">AS at Hereford Cathedral</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/07/litchfield-flower-festival-2019.html">Litchfield Flower Festival 2019</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-memorial-for-prince-philip-at-st.html">A Memorial to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Litchfield, April 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-livery-company-cookbook-was-born.html">The Livery Companies' Initiative during the Pandemic 2020 - 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/03/going-solar-march-2022.html">Going Solar March 2022 </a><br />
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Travel and Places</h3>
<a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2019/08/mytravelling-life.html">My Travelling Life</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/memories-of-taj.html">Memories of the Taj</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/road-to-bangalore.html">Timeless India</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/puttaparthy.html">Puttaparthy</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/indian-advances-in-learning-science-and.html">India - the Cradle of Language, Astronomy and Science</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/favourite-cities-beirut.html">Favourite Cities - Beirut</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/russia-wild-east.html">Russia - The Wild East</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/favourite-places-palace-hotel-tokyo.html">Favourite Places - Palace Hotel, Tokyo</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/favourite-places_17.html">Favourite Places - Winchester Cathedral</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/favourite-places-wells-cathedral.html">Favourite Places - Wells Cathedra</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/favourite-places.html">Favourite Places in Autumn - Japan</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2012/05/favourite-castles-landmark-trust-houses.html">Favourite Places - Landmark Trust Castles</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/01/hampshire-views.html">Hampshire Views - Stocks Farm and Old Winchester Hill</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/favourite-places-stockbridge.html">Favourite Places - Stockbridge</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/favourite-places-lime-wood.html">Favourite Places - Lime Wood</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2006/">Favourite Cafes - Under the Office</a><br /><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/07/favourite-churches-sherborne-abbey.html">Favourite Churches - Sherborne Abbey</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/04/great-churches-of-city-of-london.html">The Great Churches of te City of London</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-orangery-1998-20122.html">The Orangery 1998 - 2012</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-orangery-garden-1998-2012.html">The Orangery Garden 1998 - 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/old-swan-house.html">Old Swan House History</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/christmas-scenes.html">Christmas Scenes in London</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/christmas-scenes-2008.html">Christmas Scenes 2008</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/favourite-places-mottisfont-abbey.html">Mottisfont Abbey in Winter</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/more-frosty-walks.html">More Frosty Walks</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2010/03/lucky-parrot.html">Ginny Moore of The Lucky Parrot</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/herry/p7MFK9">Autumn Walks in Winchester</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/favourite-gardens-hinton-ampner.html">Favourite Houses - Hinton Ampner</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/favourite-places_11.html">Favourite Places - The East Banqueting House</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/favourite-restaurants.html">Favourite Restaurants - The River Cafe</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/farewell-le-pirate.html">Farewell Robert Le Pirate</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-murphys-and-french-riviera.html">The Murphy's and the French Riviera</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/drapers-almshouse-outing-to-winchester.html">Drapers' Almshouse Outing to Winchester 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/japan-imabari-and-kurushima-strait.html">Japan - Imabari and the Kurushima Strait</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/favourite-music.html">Japan - Early Morning Chimes</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/hymn-to-dear-japan.html">Hymn to Dear Japan March 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/one-of-huttons-glass-screen-angels-in.html">One of Hutton's Glass Screen Angels in Hampshire</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/great-churches-of-city-of-london.html">The Great Churches of the City of London</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/john-odonohue-at-glenstal-abbey.html">John O'Donohue at Glenshal Abbey</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/ellmore-abbey.html">Elmore Abbey</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/stockbridge-christmas-evening-2016.html">Stockbridge Christmas Evening 2016</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-long-indian-summer-by-rolls-across.html">A Long Indian Summer - by Rolls Across India </a><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 style="text-align: left;">Office Life 1967 - 2006 </h3><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2007/11/herry-at-thomas-miller-co-ltd-1967-2006.html">Thomas Miller 1967-2006</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/my-city.html">My City Offices 1967 - 2006</a><br /><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2019/11/commuting-in-1970s.html">Commuting in the 1970s</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2019/08/mytravelling-life.html">My Travelling Life</a></div></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/life-in-city-my-first-visit-to-china-in.html">Business memories of China 1978</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/11/seawise-university-1972.html">Seawise University (1972)</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/11/atlantic-empress-collision-with-aegean.html">Atlantic Empress / Aegean Captain (1979) </a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-cambridgeshire-and-mysterious-case.html">Cambridgeshire and a Mysterious Case of Sulphur Corrosion</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2021/01/customs-penalties-and-and-other-scams.html">Customs Penalties and Other Scams in Shipping</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2007/08/business-memories-of-japan.html">Business Memories of Japan</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/japan-imabari-and-kurushima-strait.html">Japan - Imabari and the Kurushima Strait</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/memories-of-taj.html">India - Memories of the Taj</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2008/10/tim-and-itic.html">TIM and ITIC</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2006/">Favourite Cafes - Under the Office</a><br /><a href="http://lawfordherry.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/salary-and-pay-2015.html">Salary and Pay 1967 - 2015</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/wolfiewolfs-retirement-speech.html">Herry's Trinity House Retirement 2006</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/tokyo-retirement-speech.html">Herry's Tokyo Retirement 2006</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/retirement-party-in-beijing.html">Herry's Beijing Retirement 2006</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/wolfiewolfs-office-retirement-speech.html">Herry's Office Retirement 2006</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2013/10/richard-shaw-1940-2013.html">Richard Shaw 1940 - 2013</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/s-venkiteswaran-1941-2013.html">S Venkiteswaran 1941 - 2013</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/joanne-louise-taylor-jo-johns-1939-2014.html"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Joanne</u></span> Louise Taylor (Jo Johns) 1939 - 2014</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://lawfordherry.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/bill-birch-reynardson.html">Bill Birch Reynardson 1923 - 2017</a></div></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/1995/01/uk-clubs-125th-anniversary-1994.html">UK Club's 125th Anniversary 1994</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/07/uk-clubs-150th-anniversary-dinner-july.html">UK Club's 150th Anniversary Dinner</a> </div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/city-carol-service.html">Thomas Miller Carol Service 2008</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/millers-carol-service-2009.html">Thomas Miller Carol Service 2009</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/thomas-miller-carol-service-2010.html">Thomas Miller Carol Service 2010</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/thomas-miller-carol-service-2011.html">Thomas Miller Carol Service 2011</a><br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/thomas-miller-carol-service-2013.html">Thomas Miller Carol Service 2013</a><br /><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/12/thomas-miller-carol-service-2018-and.html">Thomas Miller Carol Service 2018 and the City</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2021/03/lindsay-east-50-years-in-shipping-law.html">Lindsay East - 50 Years in Shipping Law</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2022/01/john-jillings-1939-2020.html">John Jillings 1941-2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://lawfordherry.blogspot.com/2022/06/francis-frost-1945-2022.html">Francis Frost 1945 - 2022</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">
Coventry</h3>
<a href="https://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2009/05/sir-alfred-herbert-1866-1957.html">These entries can also be found under Sir Alfred Herbert</a><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-bombing-of-coventry-in-november-1940.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Bombing of Coventry in November 1940</a></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/rebuilding-of-coventry-cathedral.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral</a><br /><a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2009/07/town-thorns-residential-school.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Sir Alfred Herbert and Town Thorns Residential School, Easenhall</a><br /><a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2009/09/sir-alfred-herbert-and-coventry-and.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Sir Alfred Herbert and the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital</a><br /><a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2009/05/sir-alfred-herberts-memorial-service-in.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Sir Alfred Herbert's Memorial Service in Coventry Cathedral 1957</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2009/07/st-barbaras-church-earlsdon.html">Sir Alfred Herbert and St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon</a></span><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/herbert-art-gallery-and-museum-coventry.html">The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry Reopening 2008</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/herbert-art-gallery-and-museum-coventry.html">The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/coventry-cathedral.html">Favourite Places - Coventry Cathedral</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/coventry-cathedral.html">Coventry's Awe-Inspiring Cathedral</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/coventrys-awe-inspiring-cathedral-ii.html">Coventry's Awe-Inspiring Cathedral II</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/coventry-cathedral.html">Coventry Cathedral - the Sutherland Tapestry</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2012/08/rediscovering-coventrys-medieval.html">Rediscovering Coventry's Medieval Stained Glass</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2013/12/coventry-cathedral-carol-concert.html">Coventry Cathedral Carol Concert 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/golden-jubilee-of-consecration-of.html">Coventry Cathedral Golden Jubilee</a><br />
<a href="http://alfredherbert.blogspot.com/2009/05/sir-alfred-herberts-induction-into.html">Sir Alfred Herbert's Induction into Coventry's Walk of Fame 2017</a><br />
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Gardens and Flowers</h3>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/favourite-gardens-buildings-in-autumn.html">Favourite Gardens - The Buildings in Autumn </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/favourite-gardens-buildings-broughton.html">Favourite Gardens - The Buildings, Broughton</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/favourite-gardens-buildings-in-august.html">Favourite Gardens - The Buildings August 2018</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/10/favourite-gardens-last-of-buildings.html">Favourite Gardens - the last of The Buildings, October 2018</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/09/favourite-gardens-laskett-gardens.html">Favourite Gardens - the Laskett Gardens</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/09/favourite-gardens-terstan.html">Favourite Gardens - Terstan</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/favourite-gardens-ashtall-manor.html">Favourite Gardens - Ashtall Manor</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/favourite-gardens-bere-mill-in-spring.html">Favourite Gardens - Bere Mill in Spring</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/favourite-gardens-adwell.html">Favourite Gardens - Adwell</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/favourite-gardens-hinton-ampner.html">Favourite Gardens - Hinton Ampner</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/favourite-gardens-stockbridge.html">Favourite Gardens - Stockbridge Town Gardens</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/favourite-gardens-wherwell-village.html">Favourite Gardens - Wherwell Village Gardens</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/favourite-gardens-bramdean-house.html">Favourite Gardens - Bramdean House</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/favourite-gardens-dean-house.html">Favourite Gardens - Dean House</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/favourite-gardens.html">Favourite Gardens - A Secret Garden</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/favourite-gardens-west-green.html">Favourite Gardens - West Green</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/mottisfont-abbey-june-2013.html">Favourite Gardens - Mottisfont Abbey</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/05/favourite-gardens-rotherfield-park.html">Favourite Gardens - Rotherfield Park</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/06/favourite-gardens-little-court-crawley.html">Favourite Gardens - Little Court, Crawley</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/01/favourite-gardens-redenham-park.html">Favourite Gardens - Redenham Park</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/09/favourite-gardens-old-bladbean-stud.html">Favourite Gardens - Old Bladbean Stud Garden Sept 2020</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/02/ngs-evening-at-hazelby-house-june-2019.html">NGS Evening at Hazelby House June 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/05/favourite-garden-catalogues-cotswold.html">Favourite Garden Catalogues - Bob Brown 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/06/favourite-gardens-houghton-lodge.html ">Favourite Gardens - Houghton Lodge 2022</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/on-form-at-ashtall-manor.html">on form at Ashtall Manor</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-manor-at-upton-grey.html">The Manor at Upton Grey</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/favourite-gardens-heale-house.html">Heale House Garden</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/adwell-fair.html">Adwell Garden Fair</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/great-gardens.html">The National Gardens Scheme</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/glorious-gardens-in-national-gardens.html">Glorious Gardens in the National Gardens Scheme</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/stockbridge-gardens-open-for-ngs-2019.html">Stockbridge Gardens Open for the NGS 2019</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/11/stockbridge-gardens-open-for-church-2020.html">Stockbridge Gardens Open for the Church 2020</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-secret-gardens-of-spitalfields.html">The Secret Gardens of Spitalfields</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/autumn-colours-in-kyoto.html">Autumn Colours in Kyoto</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/autumn-beeches.html">Autumn Beeches</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/summertime.html">Summertime</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-orangery-garden-1998-2012.html">The Orangery Garden 1998 - 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/01/orangery-in-winter.html">The Orangery in Winter</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/snow-in-april.html">Snow in April</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/04/history-of-wandsworth-common.html">The History of Battersea and Wandsworth Common</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/favourite-views.html">Favourite Views - Koko at The Orangery</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/favourite-views-fields-of-barley.html">Favourite Views - Fields of Barley</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-therapeutic-power-of-gardens-oliver.html">The Therapeutic Power Of Gardens - Oliver Sacks</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/05/ngs-booklet-gardens-and-health-2020.html">The Little Yellow Book on Gardens and Health 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-makes-happy-home.html">What Makes a Happy Home?</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/06/old-swan-house-garden-2012.html">Old Swan House Garden 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-garden-at-old-swan-house.html">Making the Garden at Old Swan House</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/old-swan-house-garden-open-for-ngs-2015.html">Old Swan House Gardens Open for the NGS 2015</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/old-swan-house-garden-in-june.html">Old Swan House Garden Video in June 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/old-swan-house-garden-in-summer-and.html">Old Swan House Garden in Summer and Autumn</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2014/06/old-swan-house-garden-in-june.html">Old Swan House Garden in June 2014</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2015/07/old-swan-house-garden-in-july.html?fbclid=IwAR0lFbCPBhyF9ZG0N9NslpXgZx5DVn5LlONujzpdQd1Yo0gSJisY5Lqd2JM">Old Swan House Garden in July 2015</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/old-swan-house-garden-in-august-2016.html">Old Swan House Garden in August 2016</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/old-swan-house-garden-in-september.html">Old Swan House Garden in September 2016</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/old-swan-house-garden-late-2016.html">Old Swan House Garden Late 2016</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/old-swan-house-garden-video-april-2018.html">Old Swan House Garden Video April 2018</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/06/old-swan-house-garden-in-june-2018.html">Old Swan House Garden in June 2018</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/old-swan-house-garden-in-july-2018.html">Old Swan House Garden in July 2018</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/old-swan-house-garden-in-august.html">Old Swan House Garden in August 2018</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/03/old-swan-house-garden-in-march-2019.html">Old Swan House Garden in March 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/old-swan-house-garden-in-april-2019.html">Old Swan House Garden in April 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/05/old-swan-house-garden-whats-new-2019.html">Old Swan House Garden Changes in 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/06/old-swan-house.html">Old Swan House Garden Open for the NGS June 2019</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/old-swan-house-garden-in-spring-2020.html">Old Swan House Garden in Spring 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/06/old-swan-house-garden-in-june-2020.html">Old Swan House Garden in June 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-story-of-raphael-seat.html">The Story of the Raphael Seat</a><br /><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/memorial-trees-and-shrubs-at-old-swan.html">Memorial Trees and Roses at Old Swan House</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/08/old-swan-house-garden-in-august-2020.html">Old Swan House Garden in August 2020</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/old-swan-house-garden-in-winter-2020.html">Old Swan House Winter Jobs 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-charnge-of-style-in-old-swan-house.html">A Change of Style at Old Swan House April 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/06/od-swan-house-garden-in-may-2021.html">Old Swan House Garden in May 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/07/old-swan-house-garden-in-june-2021.html">Old Swan House Garden in June 2021 </a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/07/old-swan-huse-garden-in-july-2021.html">Old Swan House Garden in July 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/07/alan-titchmarsh-ate-old-swan-house-july.html">Alan Titchmarsh at Old Swan House July 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-garden-in-august-2021.html">Old Swan House Garden in August 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-making-of-floretine-garden.html">The Making of the 'Florentine' Garden 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/12/lighting-garden-at-old-swan-house.html ">Lighting the Garden at Old Swan House</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/chelsea-flower-show-2007.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2007</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/chelsea-flower-show-2008.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2008</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/chelsea-flower-show-2010.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/chelsea-flower-show-2011.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2011</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/chelsea-flower-show-2012.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2012</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/chelsea-flower-show-2013.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/chelsea-flower-show-2014.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2014</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/chelsea-flower-show-2016.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2016</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/chelsea-flower-show-2018.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2018</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2017/06/rhs-flower-show-at-chatsworth.html">Chatsworth Flower Show 2017</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/07/hampton-court-flower-show-2018.html">Hampton Court Flower Show 2018</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/05/chelsea-flower-show-2019.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2019</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/05/hardys-cottage-plants-chelsea-display.html">Hardy's Cottage Plants Chelsea Display May 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWNeaen">Chelsea Flower Show 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/05/chelsea-flower-show-2022.html">Chelsea Flower Show 2022</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/garden-design-vaux-le-vicomte.html">Garden Design - Vaux le Vicomte</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/mottisfont-abbey-june-2013.html">Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/mottisfont-rose-garden-june-2016.html">Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2015</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/mottisfont-rose-garden-june-2017.html">Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2017</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/07/mottisfont-rose-garden-june-2018.html">Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2018</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/06/mottisfont-rose-garden-2022.html">Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2022</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/ngs-evening-at-harold-hiller-garden.html">Hilliers Evening Tour for the NGS June 2018</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/cascades-flower-festival-in-winchester.html">Cascades Flower Arrangement Exhibition in Winchester Cathedral</a> 2015<br /><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/09/winchester-flower-festival-2018.html">Winchester Flower Festival 2018</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/09/winchester-cathedral-flower-festival.html">Winchester Cathedral Flower Festival 2021</a><br />
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Paintings and Photographs</h3>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/art-and-what-it-means-to-me.html">Art and What it Means to Me</a></div>
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<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/favourite-galleries-moma.html">Favourite Galleries - MOMA</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/favourite-galleries-national-portrait.html">Favourite Galleries - National Portrait Gallery</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/1992/02/favourite-paintings-ayako-by-theo-ramos.html">Favourite Paintings - Ayako by Theo Ramos</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/favourite-paintings-hilma-of-klint.html">Favourite Paintings - Hilma af Klint</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/11/favourite-paintings-remedios-varo-1908.html">Favourite Paintings - Remedios Varo</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/07/favourite-paintings-parisian-apartment.html">Favourite Paintings - The Parisian Apartment</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/11/favourite-paintings-landscape-with-fall.html">Favourite Paintings - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/11/favourite-paintings-peter-breughel.html">Favourite Paintings - Peter Breughel the Elder - Nederlandisch Proverbs</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/favourite-museums-miho-museum-japan.html">Favourite Museums - Miho Museum</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/04/favourite-photographers.html">Favourite Photographers</a></div>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/vintage-acadame-at-christies.html">St Laurent and Pierre Berge Collection</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/saatchi-gallery-new-art-from-india.html">Saatchi Gallery - New Art from India</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/charles-saatchi-gallery.html">Saatchi Gallery - New Art from China</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/saatchi-gallery-new-art-from-middle.html">Saatchi Gallery - New Art from the Middle East</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/11/emily-patrick-exhibition-in.html">Emily Patrick Exhibition in Spitalfields 2008</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/anish-kapoors-exhibition.html">Anish Kapoor's Exhibition</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/anish-kapoor-in-kensington-gardens.html">Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens</a> 2010<br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/horst-at-v-photographer-of-style.html">Horst at the V&A - Photographer of Style</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/van-gogh-exhibition.html">Van Gogh at the Royal Academy 2010</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/herbert-art-gallery-and-museum-coventry.html">An Inland Voyage at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/ibrahim-el-salahi-at-tate-modern.html">Ibrahim El-Salahi at the Tate Modern</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/gaugin-at-tate-modern.html">Gaugin at the Tate Modern</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/qype-tate-britain-in-london.html">Francis Bacon Exhibition at the Tate</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/tate-moderns-10th-anniversary.html">The Tate Modern's 10th Anniversary</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/picasso-exhibition.html">Picasso Exhibition at the National Gallery</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/anish-kapoors-exhibition.html">Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy 2009</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2016/08/art-gallery-of-new-south-wales.html">Art Gallery of New South Wales - Frieda Kahlo</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/lines-of-thought-isabel-seligman.html">Lines of Thought - Isabel Seligman</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2010/08/lucie-wintertons-exhibition.html">Lucie Winterson's Exhibition 2010</a><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2011/02/dark-side-of-lens.html">Favourite Videos - The Dark Side of the Lens </a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-garden-gallery-exhibition-at-grange.html">The Garden Gallery Exhibition at the Grange</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2017/10/turner-painting-with-light.html">Turner - Painting With Light</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/how-to-draw.html">How to Draw</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-patience-of-ordinary-things.html">Emily Patrick and Patience of Ordinary Things</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/02/favourite-writings-ovid.html">The Lasting Legacy of Ovid</a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/titian-at-national-gallery-love-death.html">Titian at the National Gallery - Love, Desire, Death</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-mystery-of-plaque-and-severed-head.html">The Mystery of the Plaque and the Severed Head</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/05/adam-roud-sculptor.html">Adam Roud - Sculptor</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/06/an-astonishing-sale-of-clocks-collected.html">An Astonishing Collection of Clocks by John Taylor 2021</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/09/europa-and-zeus-at-old-swan-house.html">Europa and Zeus at Old Swan House</a><br />
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">Energy</h3></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/03/how-to-become-petrol-saving-bore.html">How to Become a Petrol-Saving Bore</a><br /><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-be-bore-about-saving-almost.html">How to be a Bore About Almost Anything</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/how-should-we-price-electricity.html">How Should We Price Electricity?</a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="What is the Price of Electricity? ">What is the Price of Electricity? </a></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2022/03/going-solar-march-2022.html">Going Solar March 2022 </a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 style="text-align: left;">
Food and Wine</h3>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/11/favourite-restaurants.html">Favourite Restaurants - the River Cafe</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/favourite-writings.html">Wine Writings</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/joy-of-breakfast.html">The Joy of Breakfast</a><br />
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/favourite-recipes-dark-chunky-marmalade.html">Favourite Recipes - Dark Chunky Marmalade </a><br />
<a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2008/10/favourite-humour.html">Dinner for One</a><br />
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Favourite Blogs</h3>
<a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/favourite-blogs-spitalfields-life.html">Favourite Blogs - Spitalfields Life</a><br />
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Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-50555806515477570512022-07-04T13:44:00.006+00:002022-07-04T13:56:04.592+00:00Alan Watts Quotations<p> </p><div class="o dz" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center;"><div class="eo cf fc fd fe ff fg fh fi fj fk" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 32px; max-width: 692px; min-width: 0px; width: 692px;"><article class="meteredContent" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="l" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><section style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="iw ix iy iz ja" style="box-sizing: inherit; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph ka jc jd bn b kb kc kd ke kf kg kh ki kj kk kl km kn ko kp kq kr co" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5b0c" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.79em 0px -0.42em;"><span class="ba" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The only Zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you”</span></h2></div><figure class="ku kv kw kx gz ky gn go paragraph-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; margin: 56px auto 0px;"><div class="kz la dq lb cf lc" role="button" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: zoom-in; position: relative; transition: transform 300ms cubic-bezier(0.2, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 692px; z-index: auto;" tabindex="0"><div class="gn go kt" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1024px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="cf ld le" height="469" loading="lazy" role="presentation" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*Hzb9AB4xQQIne6prHSB4QQ.jpeg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 692px;" width="700" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="lf bm gp gn go lg lh bn b bo bp co" data-selectable-paragraph="" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 728px; text-align: center;"><span class="ks" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: inherit;">Image by The Alan Watts Organization via Big Think</span></figcaption></figure><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bc27" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I first fell in love with Alan Watts because of his humour and profound wisdom.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f3ba" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He saw the world in such a lighthearted, playful, and brilliant way that it made my life more lighthearted, playful, and beautiful too.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d492" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After being on a spiritual path for a few years, I was taking my life a little <span class="xh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">too</span>seriously, so he came as a refreshing surprise.</span></p></div><div class="o dz sr xi ii xj" role="separator" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 32px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 24px;"><span class="ug fn cj xk xl rt" style="border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; height: 3px; margin-right: 20px; width: 3px;"></span><span class="ug fn cj xk xl rt" style="border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; height: 3px; margin-right: 20px; width: 3px;"></span><span class="ug fn cj xk xl" style="border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; height: 3px; width: 3px;"></span></div><div class="iw ix iy iz ja" style="box-sizing: inherit; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f2f9" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During his 58 years, he was a self-proclaimed philosophical entertainer, fusing Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoist traditions.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d7f5" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The only thing he did more than making babies was write books, 25 of them in fact, which is 18 more than had children, just in case you were wondering.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="17bc" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">So, here are 15 of my favourite quotes by the man himself. And if applied, can change the way you see the world forever.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="39d9" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1. “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9908" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He beautifully summed it up in another way too:</span></p><blockquote class="ya" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px;"><p class="yb yc jd bn yd ye yf yg yh yi yj md co" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="18af" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.009em; line-height: 40px; margin: 1.75em 0px -0.46em;"><mark class="zi zj ni" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”</span></mark></p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll yk ke ln lo yl kh lq lr ym lt lu lv yn lx ly lz yo mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d8d5" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">All children embody this wonderfully. But for us adults, we often forget.</span></p><blockquote class="yp yq yr" style="box-shadow: rgb(41, 41, 41) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="li lj xh lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq ys ls lt lu yt lw lx ly yu ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2439" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing” — George Bernard Shaw</span></p></blockquote><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="987b" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dfb9" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Life is in an ever-changing dance through time. We can either try and stop it or dance with it. Which one we choose ultimately determines our entire reality.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="db26" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cf92" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I don’t think I’ve ever quoted the bible but there’s nothing more fitting:</span></p><blockquote class="yp yq yr" style="box-shadow: rgb(41, 41, 41) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="li lj xh lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq ys ls lt lu yt lw lx ly yu ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="841d" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Be humble. Don’t think you’re better than anyone else. <strong class="lk je" style="box-sizing: inherit;">For dust you are and dust you shall return</strong>” — Genesis 3:19</span></p></blockquote><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2f6c" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="22cf" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He also put it like this:</span></p><blockquote class="ya" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px;"><p class="yb yc jd bn yd ye yf yg yh yi yj md co" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="84ac" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.009em; line-height: 40px; margin: 1.75em 0px -0.46em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll yk ke ln lo yl kh lq lr ym lt lu lv yn lx ly lz yo mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6686" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2.48em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="xh" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">And how beautiful we are.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ff0f" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6da2" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The universe is in an ever-changing flux, pulsating and vibrating to the rhythms of life.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9bdd" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The real concern comes when anything stops. Take the heart or the breath, for example. We need them to keep beating and changing. The last thing we want is for them to stay permanent.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6f3a" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1320" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The more I read this, the more it makes me smile. It brings me right back into the present moment and for that, I’m forever grateful.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="238f" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f404" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I can’t help but wonder how loving and well-balanced humanity would be if we simply just accepted one another exactly as we are as if we were stars.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5fcb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dc4f" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="xh" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">What more is there to say?</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="06b1" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="471e" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="xh" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">How relevant is this one today?!</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="39bb" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It reminds me of a beautiful story:</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bc3d" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="xh" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">One day, a butterfly lands in the palm of a man who’s sitting quietly. This butterfly is so beautiful that his initial reaction is to close his fist and keep it. But close his fist only crushes the butterfly.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f474" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span class="xh" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">So, instead, he must keep his palm open, enjoy the butterfly’s beauty and risk it flying away. All the while knowing that if this beautiful butterfly ever does fly away, with an open palm, it can fly right back in again.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="88be" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Holding on is easy. Letting go is hard. But only the latter creates freedom.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="31d3" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2f06" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How brave we are to fully accept life in and how brave we are to fully surrender and let go of life happens with every breath. It’s only by exhaling (letting go) that we can inhale again. If the breath ever stops, so do we.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="57ac" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4429" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Quite simply: to know one is to know the other. To not know one is to not know the other.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0e80" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="064a" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When things are swirling and chaos is around, it’s tempting to try and fix it or calm the storm. But quite often, the best thing to do is nothing.</span></p><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d899" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We seldom realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="184e" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mind-bogglingly, we think about 50,000 thoughts a day. But even more spectacular than that is that of those 50,000 thoughts, only 2% of them are new. Meaning that 98% of all the thoughts you and I think today are the same thoughts we thought yesterday.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bca5" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But are even our new thoughts our own?</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cbc6" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After all, we grow up with cultural biases and within an education system that someone else designed. We also grow up with our parent’s ideas of the world and their way of moving through it.</span></p><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq lr ls lt lu lv lw lx ly lz ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4ffa" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We get so lost in making it all so personal. Alan Watts invites us to see it from a new perspective.</span></p><blockquote class="yp yq yr" style="box-shadow: rgb(41, 41, 41) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="li lj xh lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq ys ls lt lu yt lw lx ly yu ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d719" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The first half of my life I went to school. The second half of my life I got an education” — Mark Twain</span></p></blockquote><h2 class="xm xn jd bn xo oh xp oi ok ol xq om oo lr xr op or lv xs os ou lz xt ov ox xu gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0645" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.37em 0px -0.31em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”</span></h2><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6a93" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And as Osho once said:</span></p><blockquote class="yp yq yr" style="box-shadow: rgb(41, 41, 41) 3px 0px 0px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -20px; padding-left: 23px;"><p class="li lj xh lk b ll lm ke ln lo lp kh lq ys ls lt lu yt lw lx ly yu ma mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="17f3" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“There is nowhere to go. Nothing to do. And no one to become”</span></p></blockquote><h1 class="yv xn jd bn xo yw yx yy ok yz za zb oo kj zc kk or km zd kn ou kp ze kq ox zf gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="de96" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 3.14em 0px -0.37em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Closing thoughts</span></h1><p class="pw-post-body-paragraph li lj jd lk b ll xv ke ln lo xw kh lq lr xx lt lu lv xy lx ly lz xz mb mc md iw gc" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8140" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To close, I’d like to leave you with one more pertinent quote from the man himself in case you’re still wondering just how magnificent you really are:</span></p><blockquote class="ya" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1aEApru9YvBNPfecubssPXHyJQvuLdCoq3dagzndLu9r2NdzMTgexxyB_wspvKB4f5ow0snhN_Uh43K7pecyfj_dL0dQjBNZvxqjM51FLXtuqCSDX22WvOJFMjtH2bX2UIMik6PRT4B9sySWt9BchqJ2s4rcy5Qqi1Uk6u7H9I-jY7YC8YA/w640-h480/3BE6B972-3E48-4327-9F13-B2F2B306318B_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>For more photos, <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzTub1">click here</a></p><p><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2016/07/herrys-journal-index.html">Return to Journal Index</a></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-77166147273001419242022-06-09T06:47:00.004+00:002022-06-09T06:55:01.456+00:00Favourite Gardens - Houghton Lodge<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBx8dODEACOMOh7buJB5-UG-ygxYm9hc-y_f_a4qHvyvj334xFi2GgzcYa8jxCwdaJgjwZyC2F8zxoO0GVTE7lvWGsILC_S-HgtBtDqlFCeMBzuhIX1JhhGIrM7eFwwBAto9KTALvCEf9C0jr0x8VkCilN6WxMBIeVMT2oLp7UeaVXPy97vA/s4032/C622B9CA-2E5C-4129-9B59-88442D2C8B90_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBx8dODEACOMOh7buJB5-UG-ygxYm9hc-y_f_a4qHvyvj334xFi2GgzcYa8jxCwdaJgjwZyC2F8zxoO0GVTE7lvWGsILC_S-HgtBtDqlFCeMBzuhIX1JhhGIrM7eFwwBAto9KTALvCEf9C0jr0x8VkCilN6WxMBIeVMT2oLp7UeaVXPy97vA/w640-h480/C622B9CA-2E5C-4129-9B59-88442D2C8B90_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Houghton Lodge with its rose-filled verandah</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Houghton Lodge is a splendid C18th fishing lodge high above the banks of the Test, in a most unusual 'cottage ornee' style, which has in recent years has had its extensive gardens hugely improved by the owners, Daniel and Sophie Busk. Sophie in particular has brought the huge walled garden back into perfect condition, and filled it with peonies and old roses (including a very rare 'Pope Pius IX') and trained some of the largest espaliered fruit trees in the country along its walls. New for 2022 is a sloping garden beginning with a cherry orchard and stream that debouches past cloud-pruned trees into an old lake, now cleared and planted and straddled by a beautiful Japanese bridge. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyuT6rM_CDfdExer-pjjWjn3lIWyWwGt-CCzp2pualdVdghXIXMwy7kBXDjLdH_XV343K5e2Zx10m_bfErZWM_2gJhZbpe4Ozk604rDvQoShsBtWBVmTnxroeIRpQteQaYjJ42PpXTVyR5HMf0eWr7RXJvGCsrf-b8KhD6cYoFXV4u9cTmcQ/s4032/7843714F-3FF0-4B1F-BC14-F55F5766816F_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyuT6rM_CDfdExer-pjjWjn3lIWyWwGt-CCzp2pualdVdghXIXMwy7kBXDjLdH_XV343K5e2Zx10m_bfErZWM_2gJhZbpe4Ozk604rDvQoShsBtWBVmTnxroeIRpQteQaYjJ42PpXTVyR5HMf0eWr7RXJvGCsrf-b8KhD6cYoFXV4u9cTmcQ/w640-h480/7843714F-3FF0-4B1F-BC14-F55F5766816F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The top photo shows one of them that was due to be taken down and reassembled at <a href="https://www.sculpturebythelakes.co.uk">Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorset.</a> </p><p>For a full set of photos, click <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzRyGT">here</a></p><p><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2016/07/herrys-journal-index.html">Return to Journal Index</a></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-43606432540283939822022-04-19T07:29:00.005+00:002022-04-19T07:34:33.930+00:00What is tbe Price of Electricity? <p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-size: 16px;">Here are our handy tips for understanding kWh and electricity cost per kWh. This will help you save money, energy and do your bit for the environment. Tick, tick and tick!</span><span face=""Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-size: 16px;"> </span></span></p><h2 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Let’s start with the basics, what is a kW and what is a kWh?</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">A kilowatt hour (kWh) is a measure of how much energy you’re using per hour, whilst a kW is a measure of power. kW stands for kilowatt, a universal standard for measuring electricity. So, one kilowatt equals 1,000 watts. Your electricity provider charges by how much electricity you use per kilowatt hour (kWh). The kWh is a unit of energy, the number of kilowatts you use over time, on different things.</span></p><h3 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></h3><h3 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The more kilowatt hours, or kWh you use, the more you pay. So, how much does 1 kWh of electricity cost?</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Energy is a measure of how much fuel is contained within something or used by something over a specific time period. Think of it like a Mars bar- the kWh is the like calories (or energy) within the bar, the kW is how you use those calories.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You might go for a fast, high-intensity run and burn off the energy in a matter of hours, or you might loaf on the sofa binging on Netflix, therefore stretching that energy out a bit. So, the electricity cost per kWh price you pay depends on how long you keep everything on. That’s why leaving your TV on standby or your charger plugged in still uses power and will add to the kWh cost on your energy bill (and wastes energy).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><h3 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Now let’s look at lightbulbs.</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Say you have ten 100-watt light bulbs, that would equal 1kW of energy usage (10 x bulbs x 100W = 1,000W= 1 kW). To work out the kWh cost, you’d multiply that by the amount of time you need them on and the electricity cost per kWh:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">1kW x 10 hours x £0.16 electricity cost per kWh = £1.60 a day</span></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Boom! It’s that simple! Take another look at your energy bill and you’ll see it start to make more sense.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You can apply this rule to your gas too (it will have a different unit cost to your electricity though).</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">According to the <a href="https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/about-us/our-data/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.004) 1px 1px 1px;" target="_blank">Energy Saving Trust</a> the national average price (as of June 2021) per pence/kWh of electricity is £0.1636. We have rounded it to £0.16 for illustration purposes.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><h2 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">What determines my electricity cost per kWh on my energy bill?</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">We supply the kW power to meet the “demand” of our customers and demand determines the price. The price varies, depending on your supplier, tariff, meter type, region type. According to the Energy Saving Trust, the national average price for kWh in pence is £0.16. There are two main factors you can focus on when choosing your electricity and gas tariff:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The unit rate - in kilowatt hours (kWh) and is the amount you're charged for the energy you use.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The standing charge – this is a flat fee charged daily whether you're using any gas or electricity or not. This pays for everything needed to get the energy to your property via the National Grid.</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">When comparing energy deals, check these carefully. Whilst a tariff might have a low kWh unit rate, the price of the standing charge may be high, so check before you sign up.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><h2 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">How much energy do you use?</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">How much did that morning cuppa cost you? Is it important? Yes! Here’s why it’s worth knowing what electricity price you pay per kWh and how to easily convert your electricity cost per kWh into pounds and pence.</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">How energy suppliers work out your bills</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Why some appliances use much more energy than others - and how much individual appliances use</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Why you should turn appliances off at the wall to save on costs, and why you shouldn't leave them on standby</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><h2 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">How to become an energy saving expert in three easy steps</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Now you know how much 1 kWh of electricity costs and how to convert kWh into pounds and pence. You can do a quick check of your home to work out your average kWh per day and find out where you can make changes to save on your energy bill.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Here are our three easy steps to help save on your energy bill and reduce your carbon footprint:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><h3 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Step 1 - Put a price on it</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Everything with a switch costs you money and has an impact on your carbon footprint size. Say you have a brand-new large screen TV with a 500 W power rating (kW rating of 0.5) – and you want to know how much it costs to run. Multiply 0.5 by the time you spend watching it – say 4 hours a day. Your 0.5 kW TV uses 2 kWh per day.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Now, look at your energy bill. If your electricity price per kWh is £0.16, your TV will cost £0.32 per day to run (.5kW x 4 hours x £0.16). This may not sound a lot but it adds up to £116.80 a year - on top of everything else you’re using.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Here are a few more examples of standard home appliances and how much they cost to run:</span></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Laptop</strong>: 90 watts, .09kW x 10 hours a day @ £0.16 a kWh = £0.14 a day (£52.56 a year)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tumble dryer</strong>: 750 watts .75kW x 2 hours a day @ £0.16 a kWh= £0.27 a day (£98.55 a year)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Microwave: 900 watts 0.9 kWx 1 hour a day @ £0.16 a kWh = £0.11 a day (£40.18 a year)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fridge</strong>: 250 watts 0.25 kW, 24hours a day @ £0.16 a kWh = £1.44 a day (£350.40 a year)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kids’ nightlight</strong>: 40 watts 0.04kW 14 hours a day @ £0.16 a kWh = £0.60 a day (£32.70 a year)</span></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">These examples are just a fraction of what you use in your home but highlight how you can add things up to work out your average kWh use per day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If you've got gas central heating you can work out how much you're spending on heating your home, based on the national average kWh gas price of £0.04p.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p><h3 class="text-heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Step 2 - Get in the habit, today</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">All good habits start right here, right now. Once you know your kW from your kWh and the amount of time you use things, you can build a profile of the kind of energy user you are and where you can reign things in. Are you a heavyweight or a featherweight energy user? Where are the hotspots in your home? Do you leave laptops plugged in? TV on standby?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You’ve heard of the 5/2 diet - maybe allow yourself that extra spin on the dryer at the weekend, but dry outdoors or overnight the rest of the week. Try to take a break at tea-time so you don’t have to re-boil the kettle ten times. You can also seek out energy efficient appliances like<a href="https://www.edfenergy.com/energy-efficiency/lighting" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.004) 1px 1px 1px;"> smart lightbulbs</a> or washing machines.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">From EDF Energy's website April 2022 </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(45, 45, 45); font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">See also </span><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-be-bore-about-saving-almost.html">How to be a Bore About Almost Anything</a></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-586002847948318512022-03-28T14:24:00.002+00:002022-03-28T20:47:21.907+00:00Going Solar March 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJoqB3tH4grYKDk99VrhKJY5RHhG5OVw4_Cynwp9zoh4Ks54tBfUQG84FKu0w1Benj0QwhYtoz6rf8MiCfkx9SVd1rM7Wuv44bo2l9EWNZyxqAcBBCNeCiunc0LTABstCUJ3kYJ11LOpzPbzXpBOuJhLAAwM8HDZwZ332s1CAJseUuzqBPOg/s3888/5A7FEA82-D66D-4A1E-8B40-2DB096113AE4_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="2916" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJoqB3tH4grYKDk99VrhKJY5RHhG5OVw4_Cynwp9zoh4Ks54tBfUQG84FKu0w1Benj0QwhYtoz6rf8MiCfkx9SVd1rM7Wuv44bo2l9EWNZyxqAcBBCNeCiunc0LTABstCUJ3kYJ11LOpzPbzXpBOuJhLAAwM8HDZwZ332s1CAJseUuzqBPOg/w480-h640/5A7FEA82-D66D-4A1E-8B40-2DB096113AE4_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMyqhfQZJHuTrrNVgKNTGzIBKziN8hkvB4zoKI7kj-IE_ye818qD5m8I_SYdjp3gU1ydJKpCHB0VSX5VukSxN4PDVUX-AqlY9y9JEXIdSZulgc9N1cpUTQM1m-kLsipxLHE2R-xyPqWxXGrnNw6UYJs1eqtF2zVwEcKHoGIXqy_NGq3sW91g/s4032/EA202C9F-C18F-4B7F-81D4-99C3F687F519.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMyqhfQZJHuTrrNVgKNTGzIBKziN8hkvB4zoKI7kj-IE_ye818qD5m8I_SYdjp3gU1ydJKpCHB0VSX5VukSxN4PDVUX-AqlY9y9JEXIdSZulgc9N1cpUTQM1m-kLsipxLHE2R-xyPqWxXGrnNw6UYJs1eqtF2zVwEcKHoGIXqy_NGq3sW91g/w640-h480/EA202C9F-C18F-4B7F-81D4-99C3F687F519.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01eJtFXlulKayh25bBbiuxl7ZgssqXhOWj8YrgblHariprw18gHcKJkYdlZC0CrsX6ioCWRnAQIY7nFXUSIwr6SxzW18ac-1kHQWh6aEyhZmu_Uc_mCymx7-d7XWhxl8QpB9apcnF2i98ioIwJ1aoNZDho8SqbwexEKObavYfmKp7TxoB-g/s4032/BA6BD602-FE0A-4908-A8A2-0BAAE87257A1_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01eJtFXlulKayh25bBbiuxl7ZgssqXhOWj8YrgblHariprw18gHcKJkYdlZC0CrsX6ioCWRnAQIY7nFXUSIwr6SxzW18ac-1kHQWh6aEyhZmu_Uc_mCymx7-d7XWhxl8QpB9apcnF2i98ioIwJ1aoNZDho8SqbwexEKObavYfmKp7TxoB-g/w480-h640/BA6BD602-FE0A-4908-A8A2-0BAAE87257A1_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The solar panels installed on the east and west sides of the garage roof</td></tr></tbody></table><p>With the drumbeat of climate change underscored by the scherzo of higher energy prices, I took the decision in January to add solar panels to the roof of the garage at Old Swan House. After some research, I contacted <a href="https://www.projectsolaruk.com/">Project Solar</a>, who appeared to have a good reputation and a substantial organisation, and was visited by Steve Gibson, an experienced project planner, who spent several hours over two visits to scope the site and provide a detailed quote.</p><p>He recommended the maximum capacity available - a 5.8kw capacity system and battery using 15 of the latest monocystalline solar panels on both sides of the garage roof. The garage is over 50 yards from the house (and so isn't subject the listed building regulation) and can only be seen from the garden or the lane, and isn't visible from either of my neighbour's houses, so it doesn't intrude or alter anyone's view. Having contacted the Parish Council who confirmed informally that they could see no objection on planning grounds, I accordingly ordered the system, which was installed over two days, being completed on 10th March 2022. </p><p>The installation team of Phil, Craig and Chris were experienced and worked quickly, but there was a delay in the supply of the panel mounts. Nevertheless the team needed most or the two days to dig the trench across the drive and part of the garden and lead the cable though the house to the fuse-board by the front door. Phil, the electrician, said it was one of the most challenging runs he had done, as the result of the age of the house and the complexity of its construction. Indeed, the panels weren't installed until 3pm on the second day and were completed at night. The system has worked perfectly from that time and is now producing over 20kw energy a day, which feeds the house, the battery and then the grid. As the days get longer, it should produce at least 25kw a day and fill the battery to capacity so that its energy can be used at night.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOF26ICOjyBN50xgLXsJSV0fUwqtR4-SP1f39_G1IbGBfKSqLR7W84j3J5xxxqz5o8CQqcXilsjJ_NtikK5sI6hhOf2PoQRJXt2_RpWUIsPePZhThsNgbOsTJISk1dKDgF2f_1bU6-DrhZ6kpmZyRYqgU9gUjU7hm6PltGLdhvTFgyMnpfRw/s4032/1760CC61-5C03-47C4-8DA1-8C2882E0B0C2_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOF26ICOjyBN50xgLXsJSV0fUwqtR4-SP1f39_G1IbGBfKSqLR7W84j3J5xxxqz5o8CQqcXilsjJ_NtikK5sI6hhOf2PoQRJXt2_RpWUIsPePZhThsNgbOsTJISk1dKDgF2f_1bU6-DrhZ6kpmZyRYqgU9gUjU7hm6PltGLdhvTFgyMnpfRw/w480-h640/1760CC61-5C03-47C4-8DA1-8C2882E0B0C2_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The Inverter and the battery. The system is connected to wi-fi and can be accessed on my desktop as well as by phone.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWc960wiMUlFKVJ2R5bUbttwYAdpkZBLZwBVtYrrlhgDEZDdUGggsS0KSH7hrt9qM2sRSzwPPAAhBfosWCljsVxa7RvJPi0eoEdS3YMEnjA15wFRQsim7W4phWrzMdVOp3jKScwDp8zBo2q13Mnp1n0kKX_Ph2KkeTueMY-8skBSwm72K3w/s3888/5A7FEA82-D66D-4A1E-8B40-2DB096113AE4_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="2916" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWc960wiMUlFKVJ2R5bUbttwYAdpkZBLZwBVtYrrlhgDEZDdUGggsS0KSH7hrt9qM2sRSzwPPAAhBfosWCljsVxa7RvJPi0eoEdS3YMEnjA15wFRQsim7W4phWrzMdVOp3jKScwDp8zBo2q13Mnp1n0kKX_Ph2KkeTueMY-8skBSwm72K3w/w480-h640/5A7FEA82-D66D-4A1E-8B40-2DB096113AE4_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> . </p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-59892456356994046852022-02-09T09:15:00.004+00:002022-02-09T09:15:49.824+00:00Michael Ignatieff on Consolation - the Book of Job and the Psalms <p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5YlI8pU2OO75HZV6UsiBodgeRGIAOFat--5ejbXBROqwhEltcVzOM3LilEXWt6KdtkuAa-bDsaTgW2d2e0_aoukMIzXaWxc-hvYhJBSvKVDXKmC8e_wN-QBCzWQHP0pLR95nxHkw3vc7_06gOZ1nJ17e936U6sMwc-rsL9y9jhKgdHbj34w=s1700" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="1172" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5YlI8pU2OO75HZV6UsiBodgeRGIAOFat--5ejbXBROqwhEltcVzOM3LilEXWt6KdtkuAa-bDsaTgW2d2e0_aoukMIzXaWxc-hvYhJBSvKVDXKmC8e_wN-QBCzWQHP0pLR95nxHkw3vc7_06gOZ1nJ17e936U6sMwc-rsL9y9jhKgdHbj34w=w276-h400" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Ignatieff</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Michael Ignatieff, whom I have long admired since reading his superb biography of <a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/favourite-writings.html">Isaiah Berlin</a>, has given us some fascinating reflections on the subject of Consolation, illuminating the Book of Job and the Psalms in a most enlightening way. His talk, the first of several on the subject of Consolation, can be found on BBC Sounds <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00146nq">here</a>. </p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-45989786710800238772022-02-02T07:03:00.003+00:002022-02-02T07:12:32.957+00:00Favourite World Radio - KPCC at 89.3 FM<h2 style="text-align: left;">KPCC</h2><p>I am a great fan of KPCC, part of the US National Public Radio (NPR) network of non-political radio stations much like the BBC. Indeed some of their output is taken from BBC and World Service programmes. It goes out on 83.9FM and as it comes mainly from Los Angeles, is first heard here at night. However, the programmes can also be listened to at any time by following the <a href="https://www.kpcc.org/schedule">link to the schedule.</a></p><p>The particular programmes I listen to regularly are shown below - with their most recent broadcasts to give a flavour of what one hears. They are always instructive, in depth discussions, and call on the expertise of trusted experts to explain difficult subjects rather in the manner of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(radio_series)">In Our Time</a> or the best of <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb">Woman's Hour</a>. They always ready to examine both sides of an issue, which is a tremendous relief. The presenters are extraordinarily fluid and 'fluff-free', which makes them all the easier to listen to. </p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">1A with Jenn White - <span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;"><a href="https://www.kpcc.org/2022-01-31/what-chinas-infrastructure-investments-in-africa-mean-for-the-world">What China’s infrastructure investments in Africa mean for the world</a></span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: #444444;">'1A is a show for a changing America'.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;">On Point with Megan Chakrabati - <a href="Omicron, health care and what's really going on in America's hospitals">Omicron and Health Care - What's Really Going on in America's hospitals </a></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: #444444;">'Let's make sense of the world – together. Produced by WBUR in Boston, On Point’s vibrant conversation covers everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens from around the world'.</i></span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;">Fresh Air with Terry Gross - <a href="Heartbroken? There's a scientific reason why breaking up feels so rotten">Heartbroken - There's a Scientific Reason Why Breaking-up Feels So Rotten - by Florence Williams </a></span></span></p><p><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; letter-spacing: normal;"><i>'Fresh Air with Terry Gross is weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues with intimate conversations and unusual insights'.</i> She is an icon in America and her warm humanity draws out the best in her guests. I have ordered many of the books reviewed with their authors here from <a href="https://www.thebookmarkstockbridge.co.uk">The Bookmark</a>. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: -0.20000000298023224px;"><br /></span></span></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-35766148203131612332021-12-22T17:31:00.002+00:002021-12-22T18:23:53.546+00:00Lighting the Garden at Old Swan House <p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzgLfw7a5m-BnGeAnftG0MWRurSxi3bypfrBmY4wEWtMe5uIl2cBd0f3LMQcfyGjA8eGyTxmG5nPi9tKKPuTy0jbqi5ub_MvOmpXWw8-PxxHSmGpFk6aDlC4nSkhNuZpGNMql2YBMXNrnWnhN7Y5HQEN_bWbNA9arLhX8VjJF5xfjLWYAxzA=s3859" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2894" data-original-width="3859" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzgLfw7a5m-BnGeAnftG0MWRurSxi3bypfrBmY4wEWtMe5uIl2cBd0f3LMQcfyGjA8eGyTxmG5nPi9tKKPuTy0jbqi5ub_MvOmpXWw8-PxxHSmGpFk6aDlC4nSkhNuZpGNMql2YBMXNrnWnhN7Y5HQEN_bWbNA9arLhX8VjJF5xfjLWYAxzA=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The garden lights now come on automatically based on a movement sensor</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I began putting lights in the garden a few years ago, first down the path through the box walk so that people could come and go between the house and the drive without going over the lawn. I was lucky enough to find some beautiful old copper lights at Fickle Pickle and have them 'plumbed in' by the inestimable Brian Gill. They have been completely trouble-free ever since. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRRbrOjC_FsAbs3YAzo-32SPMBYdArHvEjPqs66Ra2wayspW45pauwvNtR0VQoVlwfwca8kbjYauA2HRapnloI85FmbODN3eNW-7unQ6x-P2rcRkj4IZXuOJGaXO9LfKLblP-npLr8-72I3mnes58Wj_x0EGFGCT__yij2AFaBhKM9pDTnJw=s3859" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3859" data-original-width="2894" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRRbrOjC_FsAbs3YAzo-32SPMBYdArHvEjPqs66Ra2wayspW45pauwvNtR0VQoVlwfwca8kbjYauA2HRapnloI85FmbODN3eNW-7unQ6x-P2rcRkj4IZXuOJGaXO9LfKLblP-npLr8-72I3mnes58Wj_x0EGFGCT__yij2AFaBhKM9pDTnJw=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lighting the garden path </td></tr></tbody></table><p>Later, Brian put in some LED lights down the garden wall and two floods, one at the end in the wildflower garden and the other lighting the end of the orchard, but one had to go out an turn them on in the garage and on the patio, and one rarely took the trouble. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWCyT6Kdf0KK7g6gxvezcUxyppY3Zzt5TErD48_t20O1fDJbH4aGVh0UGCk0Ed78htb1lm6cOk1DFXUz5wy9kcJuDAtE8DBrD7-1kyNDuc1PvLS6sjAcRctsNfh5E3Dsvn4AB07IAh8Rb2fsre32m1eaxu7jRfxqfu8P8utyUCLD8Jnt7mew=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWCyT6Kdf0KK7g6gxvezcUxyppY3Zzt5TErD48_t20O1fDJbH4aGVh0UGCk0Ed78htb1lm6cOk1DFXUz5wy9kcJuDAtE8DBrD7-1kyNDuc1PvLS6sjAcRctsNfh5E3Dsvn4AB07IAh8Rb2fsre32m1eaxu7jRfxqfu8P8utyUCLD8Jnt7mew=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p>Now, Rob Allnutt has changed these lights to come on automatically at night with movement sensors, but they will only stay on for about 15 minutes unless one keeps moving.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfP9Iv3jDs0DnxJk9wJDf0pCLajGvhS3-8z_eoehui_VwZVi2KACnOQGKlnzpsq8CXfMPukcdPBpuiHDcEl02qiFDb2hNZTHubme1jKDvMHB0C1dlh4__b9h5T-QIQ_qE-ndryC_iZj_E4Ty92Vn9E18ez9kBC5fK8DDl4fnTvwahvH7-kPA=s3939" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3939" data-original-width="2954" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfP9Iv3jDs0DnxJk9wJDf0pCLajGvhS3-8z_eoehui_VwZVi2KACnOQGKlnzpsq8CXfMPukcdPBpuiHDcEl02qiFDb2hNZTHubme1jKDvMHB0C1dlh4__b9h5T-QIQ_qE-ndryC_iZj_E4Ty92Vn9E18ez9kBC5fK8DDl4fnTvwahvH7-kPA=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Solar light on one of the columns in the 'Florentine Garden'</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Finally, I have put in some solar lights on the two new columns in the 'Florentine Garden'. The come on automatically as it gets dark and light then columns rather well, but don't last very long in winter as there is so little energy captured by the solar panel.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjS2TgBnzoUhXhuUmC2lNiCeJopEg5v0Dg6_7dE8kjeE9TnJjBEUgw2sa5F2mvCvOFH--lRz3sqABF41vYReiyLiiQYl7dXFAqklNOllJcmdMPunfiZnSPxat1ExGqW9iAdz0nlulX8KhdOcxkY7zQVFYg70V2PF9No2qo_5LHlaSC-J7QzmA=s3939" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3939" data-original-width="2954" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjS2TgBnzoUhXhuUmC2lNiCeJopEg5v0Dg6_7dE8kjeE9TnJjBEUgw2sa5F2mvCvOFH--lRz3sqABF41vYReiyLiiQYl7dXFAqklNOllJcmdMPunfiZnSPxat1ExGqW9iAdz0nlulX8KhdOcxkY7zQVFYg70V2PF9No2qo_5LHlaSC-J7QzmA=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lights even light the pond</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-37965579843721706082021-11-28T10:42:00.014+00:002021-12-22T16:53:11.273+00:00Vandana Shiva on Quantum Theory<p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The pandemic has killed many people. And the pandemic is because we killed nature. The UN has admitted we are only treating the symptoms as a medical problem. The real disease is a disease of our separation from nature, our mastery over nature, our sense of disrespect for nature's laws, ecological limits and planetary boundaries. Every turbulent crisis we face today comes from the illusion of separation.</span></span></span></p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_2vb" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Quantum theory is all about interconnectedness. The world is about vibration. The world is about sound and light. This we know. And yet we constantly deny it. We separate ourselves. We separate our minds from our bodies. We separate the Earth from ourselves. We will not be able to solve either the human crisis or the planetary crisis by maintaining separation and the illusion of separate essential things. We have to realise that vibration is what runs the world and it's only when this vibration expresses itself you get a wave or a particle, health or disease, happiness and well-being or mental trauma and mental problems.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Every part of our body is intelligent. Every cell is self-organised. Every molecule acts in concert, from the molecule to the body, to the ecosystems, to the planet; it is one amazing quantum chorus. It's time to stop denying this.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">We are not the masters of the Earth. We have to restore thinking about ourselves with humility and recognise there are other beings on this planet with us, and if you take care of them we create prosperity for all. My work over the last five decades in service to the Earth has shown the more we give to the Earth, the more she gives to us."</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">~ Vandana Shiva</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Scholar, author, philosopher, environmental activist--often referred as the "Gandhi of grain" for her activism associated with the anti-GMO movement.</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="l9j0dhe7" id="jsc_c_2vc" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="l9j0dhe7" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 gs1a9yip g5ia77u1 mtkw9kbi tlpljxtp qensuy8j ppp5ayq2 goun2846 ccm00jje s44p3ltw mk2mc5f4 rt8b4zig n8ej3o3l agehan2d sk4xxmp2 rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 a8c37x1j mg4g778l btwxx1t3 pfnyh3mw p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x tgvbjcpo hpfvmrgz jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso l9j0dhe7 i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of du4w35lb lzcic4wl n00je7tq arfg74bv qs9ysxi8 k77z8yql abiwlrkh p8dawk7l tm8avpzi" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158113206535876&set=gm.1053440521897192&__cft__[0]=AZXO8HVAhzT_8gEVsTgqipk3TxseKH9X8bFd63bAsAx-61qPKgS23CykPUyPgakrGdQ8P0f9VG-MfeXQ84ud_SHA6l8-kPL49f8A_sKQA4wOtjaAshzVgCplFJcbTwqoftR16GLY42IlkKCd3u4r0D8wiWzY32u0WNG3FWYZjICXQWs_cK7Ofmw52IExsaFKO70&__tn__=EH-R" role="link" style="-webkit-user-select: none; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hdURooXQZzQ/YVoDffjb2NI/AAAAAAAFFhk/xB4WeTp053cFn-2HfQEmFg7jXV3_M0KhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2021/Giles%2Ball%2BLondon%2B2016.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1516" data-original-width="2021" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hdURooXQZzQ/YVoDffjb2NI/AAAAAAAFFhk/xB4WeTp053cFn-2HfQEmFg7jXV3_M0KhwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Giles%2Ball%2BLondon%2B2016.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gules Wingate-Saul (right) with Julian Avery, John Collard and Richard Smith. Anglesea Arms, London 2026 Photo by Herry.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Giles Wingate Wingate-Saul was a friend from my schooldays when we were contemporaries at Winchester. We subsequently attended university together and for our last year at Southampton (where we both read law) we shared a cottage with Julian Avery (3rd from the left) on the edge of the New Forest outside Romsey. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lIY6queNGcw/YZoT96dDs9I/AAAAAAAFJdE/vmGMsBmAbIkgRUJZ7W9wbLiG3bJjfiEqACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Blue%2BHayes%2B2011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="2048" height="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lIY6queNGcw/YZoT96dDs9I/AAAAAAAFJdE/vmGMsBmAbIkgRUJZ7W9wbLiG3bJjfiEqACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h372/Blue%2BHayes%2B2011.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julian, John, Richard, Giles and Herry at Blue Hayes in 2011</td></tr></tbody></table><p>At university and subsequently we were both members of the 'Gentleman of Wessex' cricket team, and we met at cricket matches and events such as the reunion organised by Julian Avery at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in 1995. We both retired in 2006, but the both attended the reunion organised by tbe Law Faculty in 2007 where Giles was called upon to reply on behalf of the students.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwZPQgFXS_A/YZoHtmjiEKI/AAAAAAAFJc8/mgPlZcDjcREE2YvqctSu8MnpySqdNyJ9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Law%2BFaculty%2BReunion%2B2008%2B.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="2048" height="380" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwZPQgFXS_A/YZoHtmjiEKI/AAAAAAAFJc8/mgPlZcDjcREE2YvqctSu8MnpySqdNyJ9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h380/Law%2BFaculty%2BReunion%2B2008%2B.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Southampton Law Faculty Reunion 2007 - with Giles, Julian, John, Richard and others including some of tbe professors.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I think it was at that event that we determined to have an annual reunion consisting of Giles, Julian, John Collard and me, and later Richard Smith. Thereafter we met annually in London or in Hampshire for lunch or dinner, often at one of the London Clubs (Julian was a member of Boodles). I also began to see Giles on other occasions as he came down from Cumbria to visit his daughter Lucinda, who was working as a doctor at Winchester Hospital. He came to stay at Old Swan House on occasion and we enjoyed long discussions, having similar views on life and the world. He also came with me to Litchfield, and amazed the congregation with his beautiful baritone voice. I hope we would always be able to meet, but that was not to be, as Giles fell ill in about 2017 and was unwell until he died in September 2021</p><p>At Gile's Thanksgiving Service in his home village of Rusland on a friend, David Allan QC gave a fine eulogy that appears here:</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>'I met and got to know Giles in the mid 1970s, not through meeting in Court or in chambers but through Giles being the organiser and captain of the Manchester Bar football team. A team that under Giles’s captaincy played regularly and met with much success. Giles was a solid centre back but if the truth be told he was a little susceptible to the high ball. As a high ball came towards him it was not unknown to hear a cry from Giles “over” and as the ball sailed over his head that was the signal for Giles’s fellow centre back to provide some rapid cover. Those who played for that team got enormous enjoyment from doing so and are grateful to Giles for creating and running the team.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Giles’s school was Winchester College, his university was Southampton where he read law . Giles was rather dismissive of his achievements as a student. I have chatted to Herry Lawford who was at school and university with Giles. Herry is here today. What Herry emphasised was not so much Giles’s academic abilities but the value of his friendship which lasted a lifetime. Giles was a loyal and entertaining friend, he was a great storyteller.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Giles was called to the Bar in 1967 and joined Royal Exchange chambers in Manchester. He rapidly developed a very busy civil practice but was never too busy to help a fellow member of chambers. A few days ago I bumped into Keith Armitage who was also a member of Royal Exchange. Giles was some 2 or 3 years senior to Keith and when Keith was a pupil and in his second six months and so able to appear in Court it happened that late one day he received instructions to go to Warrington County Court on an undefended divorce. The petitioner was seeking a divorce on the grounds of adultery. This caused Keith some consternation Not because of the adultery but the prospect of the journey to Warrington. There was no M56 or M62 to take you to the wilds of Warrington. So Keith approached Giles and suggested that Giles might like to take over this weighty undefended divorce. Giles’s response was to say no this is your case and you must do it but I will drive you to Warrington County Court and I will drive you back again to Manchester. Giles did just that. Keith got his lift but sadly did not get his divorce. Undefended it may have been but he could not prove adultery. What struck me on hearing this story from some 50 years ago how like Giles and how he never changed. Kindness and doing the right thing were so much a part of his character.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>I forgot to ask Keith what car Giles was driving. Was it his splendid and beloved Lotus.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Giles’s abilities as a barrister, his talent and hard work were recognised and he achieved silk in 1983 becoming a Queen’s Counsel just after his 38<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span> birthday, an unusually young age to achieve . He joined Byrom Street Chambers in Manchester and London. The head of Chambers was Ben Hytner. Taking silk at the same time as Giles and joining Byrom Street with him was Giles’s friend David Clarke. I’m reminded of David’s description of Giles: intellectually principled, rigorous, focused but also warm in friendship and very good company.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i> As a silk Giles was always in demand. He combined meticulous preparation and fine judgment with an unerring grasp of legal principle. Giles was the master at drilling down into a case to reveal its key points. His practice covered both claims for catastrophic injury and weighty commercial matters. When acting for a claimant if the defendant was not prepared to pay the value of the case as assessed by Giles then he was always ready to fight the case. In Court he was a formidable presence. He advanced his arguments cogently and forcefully. </i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i> </i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>You’ll know that Giles had a strong sense of fairness. In the conduct of his cases at whatever level whatever the eminence of the tribunal Giles would stand up to what he saw as an unfair approach. He felt his nemesis was a particular law lord of brilliant intellect but with a tendency to make up his mind before coming into court. I know you are thinking that couldn’t possibly happen but it did. And then displaying a reluctance to listen to the argument he had already in his own mind rejected. This infuriated Giles.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>What gave Giles great satisfaction was to receive instructions in an unpromising case and then having mastered the detail, analysed the issues he would fashion an argument that provided the route to success. This was never better illustrated than in the environmental asbestos case Margereson where the citizens of Armley Leeds were subjected through the 1930s, 40s and 50s to an asbestos factory pumping out asbestos dust into their homes, into the school yard and onto the loading bays where the children played. During 6 weeks of evidence and argument I was privileged to watch Giles construct an unanswerable case. His dedication to the case was total. </i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>I had the good fortune to be led by Giles many times. It was an education. Those of us who shared chambers with Giles benefited enormously from his wise advice.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Giles’s energies were not confined to the conduct of his own cases. Giles was the founding Chairman of the Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association. He was always keen to assist law students and young members of the Bar and he did that through his role as a Bencher of the Inner Temple.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Giles retired from the Bar aged 60. He had been a deputy High Court Judge and a Deputy Judge of the Technology and Construction Court. He could undoubtedly have become a High Court Judge and given the combination of his first class legal mind and his humanity he would have been a fine judge. But he and Katherine had agreed many years ago that he would retire at 60 and he never wavered from that decision.</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Despite the demands of work and family Giles found time to assist certain charities whose work he regarded as important. He was a trustee for some 20 years of Spirit, the charity for those sustaining spinal cord injury, and he was also a trustee of the Bendrigg Trust based in Cumbria which provides outside adventure activities for the disabled and disadvantaged. </i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><i> </i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>At the Bar Giles was regarded with huge respect and admiration. This was in part due to his abilities as a barrister but also in part because of the person he was. There was nobody else quite like him. He was no follower of popular fashion. He never owned a television. He was very much his own man- a singular man and he was fortunate to meet a singular woman in Katherine and unsurprisingly they produced two wonderful children in Lucinda and Rupert. He was immensely proud of both of them. I’ll finish with some words written by his lifelong friend Herry Lawford:</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>“A lovely, kind man and a generous friend; the kind you hope to grow old with”</i></p><div><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="AppleOriginalContents" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">GILES WINGATE-SAUL Called to the Bar November 1967 (Inner Temple). Practice as barrister 1967-1983. General Common Law work from chambers in Manchester (mainly civil). Queen’s Counsel (QC) Appointed April 1983. Practice as Queen’s Counsel 1983-2005 from chambers in Manchester and London. Areas of work - catastrophic personal injury (brain damage and spinal injury)\, Mercantile/Commercial/ and Construction.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mediator (trained by CEDR) Arbitrator Retired 31st July 2005 Appointments. Deputy High Court Judge (ceased July 2005) Deputy Judge of Technology and Construction Court (ceased July 2005). Governing Bencher of the Inner Temple.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Specialist Bar Associations (until 2005)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Personal Injury Bar Association. Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association (Founding chairman and chairman 1996-2002). Professional Negligence Bar Association.Technology and Construction Bar Association. Society of Construction Law. Bar European Group. European Circuit.</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Divided time between the Lake District and Manchester. Governing Bencher of the Inner Temple. Trustee of SPIRIT (spinal injury charity based on Midland Spinal Injury Centre. Oswestry) Trustee of Bendrigg Trust (residential activities for disabled young people. Founding Trustee/Administrator of Rusland Valley Community Trust. Churchwarden / Treasurer Rusland Church, Cumbria.Vice-chairman Rusland Show. Treasurer Rusland Reading Room Member Carlisle Diocesan Synod. Deputy groundsman Leven Valley Cricket Club. Cricket/tennis</span><br /></span><br /></blockquote><p>Family: wife Kathrine (died 2015) Daughter Lucinda attended Leeds University and is now a doctor at Royal County Hospital, Winchester, married to Tom with a son. Son Rupert was at Cambridge (Engineering) and is marrying Laura in Rusland. </p></div></div><p>Photos from the Thanksgiving Service can be seen <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWUG9Lk">here </a></p><p>For some more photos of Giles though the years, click <a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/herry/5Lt3vX">here</a> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-62990454529546654912021-11-18T09:03:00.019+00:002021-11-23T17:17:53.468+00:00The Making of the Florentine Garden <p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8RqLEosURMw/YZYTBfav7wI/AAAAAAAFJRY/ohpJ4pbNMFElnhg58rBNec0h8mwwdWL1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s3945/703739B0-1350-4229-B860-2D330EDCF604_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2958" data-original-width="3945" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8RqLEosURMw/YZYTBfav7wI/AAAAAAAFJRY/ohpJ4pbNMFElnhg58rBNec0h8mwwdWL1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/703739B0-1350-4229-B860-2D330EDCF604_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>It took me several years to realise that I would never be satisfied with the two beds next to the drive, one overshadowed as is by the ancient hazel, and to determine to reduce them to purely classical forms. Although they contain satisfactory clumps of euphorbia wulfenii, rosemary and lavender, they also have had rather messy 'centres' of nepeta and other 'light' plants. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KjFA4rVXvDY/YZzieuoqGEI/AAAAAAAFJsM/Sa4InavUvcM-MlqX8He1q8iXiq529xirQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/4077767A-D8BF-4223-A2B1-3BB999136163_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KjFA4rVXvDY/YZzieuoqGEI/AAAAAAAFJsM/Sa4InavUvcM-MlqX8He1q8iXiq529xirQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/4077767A-D8BF-4223-A2B1-3BB999136163_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 'Adam' design in Bath stone</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I am increasingly drawn to classical architecture and forms, and indeed the design of the garden is based on classical geometry and its proportions. Recently I have been veering towards making the garden even more overtly classical and reducing the number of flowering plants in favour of strong architectural plants like box and yew, offset by softer forms like rosemary.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RK_xx8hAfPw/YZziN00RofI/AAAAAAAFJsE/dF60eBaRa2oWopufSKHNmkCK5bXEVRiLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s4032/D98B5763-9BC3-4CD3-8F32-321B66E02FCC_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RK_xx8hAfPw/YZziN00RofI/AAAAAAAFJsE/dF60eBaRa2oWopufSKHNmkCK5bXEVRiLwCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/D98B5763-9BC3-4CD3-8F32-321B66E02FCC_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><p>Finally, this year these beds have been cleared of all plants except the euphorbia, rosemary and lavender. Bases of old York stone topped with a stone column have been installed, bordered by sloping yew buttresses on each side. One column has been moved from the area of the box walk at tbe top of tbe garden, with its armillary sphere, while the other, an Adam design in Bath stone, has come from Haddonstone. I have a metal sphere to put on top of it, but will look for some appropriate statuary. </p><p>I now call this area the 'Florentine Garden' in memory of the kind of gardens I have seen there, particularly at the<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/herry/rT1LQw"> Torre del Bellusguardo</a>. As well as looking good all the year round, it will be almost completely labour-free.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vow9Hv81p9k/YZzh6edxf5I/AAAAAAAFJr8/hGkbIoC6lHEdUTaRE5s6yvvHWNBRVmS8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s3886/361E80F5-BACB-4CF4-87AE-DE17E75E77E3_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2173" data-original-width="3886" height="358" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vow9Hv81p9k/YZzh6edxf5I/AAAAAAAFJr8/hGkbIoC6lHEdUTaRE5s6yvvHWNBRVmS8wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h358/361E80F5-BACB-4CF4-87AE-DE17E75E77E3_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-35266729230373288922021-10-27T07:18:00.005+00:002021-11-10T12:51:00.136+00:00President Kennedy's Speech on Poetry and Art at Amherst (1963)<p><span face="fira-sans" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xJTU7tcv7mI/YXj8TOs74cI/AAAAAAAFH3g/fsZ9zjsG95skTMMzVu59mnA96aq_6hMEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1408/Screenshot%2B2021-10-27%2Bat%2B08.13.48.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1138" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xJTU7tcv7mI/YXj8TOs74cI/AAAAAAAFH3g/fsZ9zjsG95skTMMzVu59mnA96aq_6hMEwCLcBGAsYHQ/w518-h640/Screenshot%2B2021-10-27%2Bat%2B08.13.48.png" width="518" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Kennedy </td></tr></tbody></table><span face="fira-sans" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span face="fira-sans" style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 1963, Kennedy was invited to Amherst College to give </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 19.200000762939453px;">talk</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> honouring Robert Frost who had recently died. These are </span><span style="font-size: 19.200000762939453px;">excerpts from his speech, which can be heard in full <a href="https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/jfk-amherst-poetry-power?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fbrainpicker%252Fjfk-amherst-poetry-power">here</a> </span></span></p><p><span face="fira-sans" style="background-color: #444444; font-size: 1.2em;"><i><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Strength takes many forms, and the most obvious forms are not always the most significant. The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.</span></i></span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: fira-sans; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Robert Frost coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as the means of saving power from itself. When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment. </span></i></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: fira-sans; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state… In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role…</span></i></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: fira-sans; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. </span></i></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: fira-sans; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth… In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society — in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost’s hired man, the fate of having “nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”</span></i></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: fira-sans; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-size: 1.2em;"><i><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">We take great comfort in our nuclear stockpiles, our gross national product, our scientific and technological achievement, our industrial might — and, up to a point, we are right to do so. But physical power by itself solves no problems and secures no victories. What counts is the way power is used — whether with swagger and contempt, or with prudence, discipline and magnanimity. What counts is the purpose for which power is used — whether for aggrandizement or for liberation. “It is excellent,” Shakespeare said, “to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”</span></i></span></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-65883640509987984562021-10-19T16:45:00.002+00:002021-10-19T16:45:08.663+00:00Stockbridge In the Age of the Coronavirus - the DL's Visit October 2021<p>On 8th October 2021 the Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, Andrew Kent, came to Stockbridge to thank all those who had played a significant part in helping the community during the lockdowns caused by the pandemic. Much of the organisation had been carried out by Chantal Halle.</p>He visited Stockbridge Primary School, where the use of the kitchens was offered by the head Emma Jefferies, and free lunches were cooked by the school chef, Shawn and delivered to vulnerable residents.<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ttYhd20pW84/YW7xDqixVvI/AAAAAAAFGk4/C3f6xQEQPv8GLavQlYhBw0fjmWdLH1lOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1434DEEA-EE84-4BE0-A26E-39D0A7083677_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1790" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ttYhd20pW84/YW7xDqixVvI/AAAAAAAFGk4/C3f6xQEQPv8GLavQlYhBw0fjmWdLH1lOQCLcBGAsYHQ/w560-h640/1434DEEA-EE84-4BE0-A26E-39D0A7083677_1_201_a.jpeg" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Deputy Lieutenant, Andrew Kent, talking to the pupils of Stockbridge Primary School. The chef, Shaun, can be seen standing in the background. </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Beccy's the greengrocer had stayed open throughout, with being purchases collected by the staff so that customers could remain outside. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOpf5WCUYCA/YW7xzF0auVI/AAAAAAAFGlA/SfXodPi4XHg9aOnmGuiy_6GdrkwgHIM8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/B180015A-6B91-4CF8-A103-D08F0DC5294D_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1605" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FOpf5WCUYCA/YW7xzF0auVI/AAAAAAAFGlA/SfXodPi4XHg9aOnmGuiy_6GdrkwgHIM8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w314-h400/B180015A-6B91-4CF8-A103-D08F0DC5294D_1_201_a.jpeg" width="314" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The DL thanking Beccy</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>The Co-Op had offered free baked goods. and John Robinson's and Thyme & Tides had supplied low-cost meals, as had Prego.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GSNJ4NLESyA/YW7ykmlYBlI/AAAAAAAFGlI/2Geonto19CYHFx4n2N-tTm_oIAJwEa_XACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/6EF2855A-1D24-4687-8593-55861D07928B_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GSNJ4NLESyA/YW7ykmlYBlI/AAAAAAAFGlI/2Geonto19CYHFx4n2N-tTm_oIAJwEa_XACLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/6EF2855A-1D24-4687-8593-55861D07928B_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vishnu and Tom from the Co-Op being thanked by the DL<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YJJ7W9zCr_M/YW7y8VmI2XI/AAAAAAAFGlQ/LcKWaOLQLm4JJsx5o9g0cw4a_KkNlOq4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/2CDDA276-FC76-4EC9-B5D6-C7644283D9D3_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YJJ7W9zCr_M/YW7y8VmI2XI/AAAAAAAFGlQ/LcKWaOLQLm4JJsx5o9g0cw4a_KkNlOq4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/2CDDA276-FC76-4EC9-B5D6-C7644283D9D3_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The DL thanking Robinson's </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><br /><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ep3VljxcSxY/YW70Hw-3flI/AAAAAAAFGlw/YlIzwWXwGYYzVq2oFQU74P_K6w3a4wwswCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D8CF2A61-D8A4-41E5-BADB-93DF6349FC5C_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ep3VljxcSxY/YW70Hw-3flI/AAAAAAAFGlw/YlIzwWXwGYYzVq2oFQU74P_K6w3a4wwswCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/D8CF2A61-D8A4-41E5-BADB-93DF6349FC5C_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The DL thanking Thyme & Tides <br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HsT_uhrYq6o/YW7017JIlwI/AAAAAAAFGl4/SKc4iBilXZkvD7Ngk5_fUMU9_IykKupbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/F51A010F-6F3F-4DC5-83E8-E9CC27DD40AB_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1376" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HsT_uhrYq6o/YW7017JIlwI/AAAAAAAFGl4/SKc4iBilXZkvD7Ngk5_fUMU9_IykKupbgCLcBGAsYHQ/w430-h640/F51A010F-6F3F-4DC5-83E8-E9CC27DD40AB_1_201_a.jpeg" width="430" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The DL thanking Prego, accompanied by Alex Edwards, the chairman of the Parish Council </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wk1VU49tcRE/YW71hQf-hwI/AAAAAAAFGmA/I2FyLG_X3v8RKP5HzRvSTTNJ-zB79c9JwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/3ACFDBDE-6CCC-4BD6-A4D1-598C7E717603_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="2048" height="548" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wk1VU49tcRE/YW71hQf-hwI/AAAAAAAFGmA/I2FyLG_X3v8RKP5HzRvSTTNJ-zB79c9JwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h548/3ACFDBDE-6CCC-4BD6-A4D1-598C7E717603_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>After his perambulation, the DL was given tea in the Scout Hut. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <br /><br /><p><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><br /></span></p></div><br /><br /><br />Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-45429402819409068642021-10-07T20:03:00.000+00:002021-10-07T20:03:05.982+00:00The Church Closers' Charter and Other Attacks on the CofE Churches<p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Following the closure of all C of E churches (ie not Catholic ones) in March 2020 because of the pandemic, many people became very disillusioned and particularly with the church hierarchy. Not only was the complete closure of churches for so long thought unnecessary, but noone seemed either to be in charge or supporting the immense mount of pastoral work that was being done as a consequence of the lockdowns. Furthermore, it seemed that the long-running battle to stop the church from abandoning the traditional rural parishes in favour of evangelical city churches was being lost.. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The issues were well aired by Giles Fraser <a href="https://unherd.com/2021/07/the-church-is-abandoning-its-flock/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=f3419c8f84&mc_eid=e372f4d099&fbclid=IwAR3rZ7fZw4Fj_9wvdTUDjijePRAm5OqcAxXHcKSNi3PIZrpa4G9dCTlTCU0">in a piece in UnHerd </a>in July 2021 'The Church is Abandoning its Flock.' </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Since then, further sinister moves have been made, more particularly with the publication of a '<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Consultation on 'A Mission Revision' Paper GS2222'. This seemingly innocuous piece of bureaucracy could further strip the rural parishes of their churches and vicarages. This document has been <a href=" https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-church-closers-charter-must-be-torn-up ">analysed by Emma Thompson in the Spectator</a> in September 2021 in an article that names GS2222 'The Church Closers' Charter'. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Many objections to the 'charter' have been raised and below is one that captures the points that most of us would make. </span></span></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></o:p></div><ol start="1" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">This consultation has to be seen in the context of a widescale (universal?) belief that our beloved Church currently, and patently, lacks meaningful leadership and a coherent message for our own congregations, let alone the general populace. During the recent Covid crisis, our Church performed very badly and deeply upset many hitherto committed Christians. Sadly it mirrors the labour Party in being out of touch with its own supporters<o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ol><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></i></o:p></div><ol start="2" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Recent reorganisations of rural parishes have reduced the number of clergy (while <b>not</b> reducing the Parish Share!) to the point of ineffectiveness. The C of E seems determined to continue down this process gradual decline. The focus on inner cities and church plantations is welcome and commendable but should <b>no</b>t be at the expense of traditional rural parishes, which remain the heartland of the Anglican Church and the financial ‘bread-basket’ of the dioceses. At the moment, It is all so negative and defeatist. As a previous Diocesan Chairman of Finance, I have absolutely no doubt that most parishes are capable of producing significantly increased with better fundraising and determined leadership. This in turn would fund a new breed of more able and enthusiastic clergy and reset the Church on an upward spiral of growth, which our country as a whole desperately needs.<o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ol><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><o:p><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></i></o:p></div><ol start="3" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">My fundamental objection to GS2222 is that these proposals are designed to facilitate the process of decline and, if implemented, a further, and possible fatal collapse, will be precipitated. Your rural congregations cry out for positive leadership and the vision of an expanding church and not one in perpetual and terminal decline.</span></i></li></ol><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">No satisfactory response has been received to these points.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-24258093103269625402021-09-29T04:46:00.001+00:002021-09-29T04:46:12.548+00:00Europa and Zeus at Old Swan House<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qathtb3m_xE/YVPsDAl0HUI/AAAAAAAFFTw/e1sYAesb2xsGCrrKXVKWfD4O8yn0MzE0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/E6A9652C-568C-426C-9EAD-4570DB7F21C0_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1663" data-original-width="2048" height="520" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qathtb3m_xE/YVPsDAl0HUI/AAAAAAAFFTw/e1sYAesb2xsGCrrKXVKWfD4O8yn0MzE0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h520/E6A9652C-568C-426C-9EAD-4570DB7F21C0_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This plaster cast from a display at the British Museum has recently been installed at Old Swan House. </p><p>It has given rise to a discussion on what scene was being depicted. My local classical scholar thinks that it most probably depicts the myth of the Rape of Europa, in which Zeus disguises himself as a bull and carries Europa off to Crete, where she gives birth to the Minotaur among others. This scene must be early in the story as Europa seems unwisely to be treating the bull as a pet. Soon afterwards, he persuades Europa to climb onto his back, whereupon he swims with her off to Crete. </p><p>See a painting of the myth, <a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2020/04/titian-at-national-gallery-love-death.html">Titian at the National Gallery - Love, Desire, Death. </a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br /></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-73200780908055574052021-09-18T06:55:00.004+00:002021-09-18T06:55:52.949+00:00Winchester Cathedral Flower Festival 2021<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-msWv8p5t63U/YUWLe2VWNMI/AAAAAAAFEYM/55syNnbj6GYyQuxGvI2c10Bl6P_CdacrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/4E004F19-25ED-4573-A06F-4D5B4B074099_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="2048" height="456" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-msWv8p5t63U/YUWLe2VWNMI/AAAAAAAFEYM/55syNnbj6GYyQuxGvI2c10Bl6P_CdacrQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h456/4E004F19-25ED-4573-A06F-4D5B4B074099_1_201_a.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Jane Austen display</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Flower Festival has been held again in Winchester Cathedral's after the loss of 2020 and it was spectacular and beautiful as ever. Special mention should be made of the design of the Jane Austen arrangement with its soft colours; some dislays used colours that were too harsh against the grey stones.</p><p><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IyMp-QH6JHA/YUWMW-L3zOI/AAAAAAAFEYU/jOYzFin-yns22XSfr1agxpS4jMz1t2kywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/A902369D-C504-4FE5-AA95-1855CFA389B0_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1595" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IyMp-QH6JHA/YUWMW-L3zOI/AAAAAAAFEYU/jOYzFin-yns22XSfr1agxpS4jMz1t2kywCLcBGAsYHQ/w498-h640/A902369D-C504-4FE5-AA95-1855CFA389B0_1_201_a.jpeg" width="498" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the Jane Austen display </td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dY1RRrvV9LI/YTMWf5uFq9I/AAAAAAAFD9w/T_bdxFjNl4Q0XpDqAkJqn1GF-b1Ei7AxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/E8CDCB68-9ABE-47CC-8D35-9027DCE9E979_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dY1RRrvV9LI/YTMWf5uFq9I/AAAAAAAFD9w/T_bdxFjNl4Q0XpDqAkJqn1GF-b1Ei7AxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/E8CDCB68-9ABE-47CC-8D35-9027DCE9E979_1_201_a.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lawn seen though one of Alan Titchmarsh's planters</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8J9-vPlYeVE/YTMW68maj0I/AAAAAAAFD94/zzeNgB4s1-0tO6rywRIwCrTMG5uUQdGuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BA49E2DE-6FD3-48A7-8431-9CA697C0E159_1_201_a.jpeg"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8J9-vPlYeVE/YTMW68maj0I/AAAAAAAFD94/zzeNgB4s1-0tO6rywRIwCrTMG5uUQdGuwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/BA49E2DE-6FD3-48A7-8431-9CA697C0E159_1_201_a.jpeg" /></a><br />The 'money shot' when the sun was out.<br /><br /><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pNLbGMkUeLg/YTMU2G3FT6I/AAAAAAAFD9g/Pya82LY_fmUY1PtataES3hPd9dcIyFZ9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Romantic%2BRoad%2B8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1449" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pNLbGMkUeLg/YTMU2G3FT6I/AAAAAAAFD9g/Pya82LY_fmUY1PtataES3hPd9dcIyFZ9QCLcBGAsYHQ/w452-h640/Romantic%2BRoad%2B8.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br />Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-58407437177659292312021-08-16T13:30:00.006+00:002021-08-16T13:37:28.678+00:00Favourite Poems - The Second Coming - WB Yeats<p> <span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The Second Coming</span></p><p><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #444444; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Both sections, in their complex ambiguity, seem so relevant today, as the Taliban move towards Kabul. What a mess.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><i>Turning and turning in the widening gyre </i></span></p><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br />Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br />Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br />The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere <br />The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br />The best lack all conviction, while the worst <br />Are full of passionate intensity.<br /><br />Surely some revelation is at hand;<br />Surely the Second Coming is at hand. <br />The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out <br />When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<br />Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert <br />A shape with lion body and the head of a man, <br />A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, <br />Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it <br />Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. <br />The darkness drops again; but now I know <br />That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br />Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, <br />And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, <br />Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /></i><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">WB Yeats </span></div>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-34930307429431932942021-08-12T08:01:00.005+00:002021-08-14T07:18:28.907+00:00Things Anti-Vaxxers Told Me This Week <p><a href="https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/a-summary-of-things-anti-vaxxers-have-told-me-this-week-d04e535c4519 ">This is extraordinary</a>, but goes to explain how some people think. Fortunately no one that I know!</p><p><br /></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2dff" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The anti-vaxxers are angry at us. They say we’ve been judgemental. We don’t listen to them. We don’t respect their views.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2939" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">So I started listening.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b934" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Here’s what they have to say:</span></p><h1 class="kb je kk kc jw kd kl jx ke jh km jy kf kn jz kg fm ko gj kp kh kq ki ka bb kr kj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="344a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 36px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Rules don’t work, so we shouldn’t have them.</span></h1><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Some anti-vaxxers have said they’re not following health guidelines simply because it’s being forced on them. The same goes for masks and social distancing. They say putting mandates in place hasn’t stopped the virus from spreading, because people don’t follow the rules.</span></div><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e97a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">That means rules are pointless.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="806a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It’s oppressive to mak<span id="rmm" style="box-sizing: inherit;">e</span> rules and try to get people to follow them, because most people are going to ignore those rules. So you’re really just punishing people following their own nature.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="542d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">There’s no point in trying to modify anyone’s behavior. If you’re going to try, you should be nice and non-confrontational about it.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="90e1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">That way, it’s easier to ignore you.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fc4b" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The same logic applies to masks. The cheap cloth masks don’t stop the spread of these more contagious variants. So instead of trying to find better masks, we should just ditch them altogether. Besides, there’s no point in asking someone to make small sacrifices for someone else. Everyone’s responsible for their own health. (We’ll talk more about that later.)</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8c88" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It doesn’t matter how many lives are at stake. We should always just present information and let people make up their own minds. If half the population is making a poor choice, then the other half just have to mask up and stay home or get out of their way. It doesn’t matter whether we have jobs, vulnerable relatives, or kids who belong in school.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a8dc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It’s <span class="mt" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">your </span>life.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8210" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Just figure it out.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="cb42" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">In their view, we should just let everyone do their own research and make their own health decisions. It’s pointless to worry about whether you get someone else infected.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1052" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">That leads to their next point.</span></p><h1 class="kb je kk kc jw kd kl jx ke jh km jy kf kn jz kg fm ko gj kp kh kq ki ka bb kr kj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2088" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 36px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Everyone’s responsible for their own health.</span></h1><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Anti-vaxxers still believe the coronavirus targets unhealthy people, especially the ones who don’t take care of themselves. So if you exercise and eat healthy, then you have nothing to worry about.</span></div><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="15d5" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You’re invincible.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1716" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">In this worldview, every single aspect of your health is under your control. There’s no such thing as hereditary disease. Everyone is born with a fundamentally healthy body and mind. What you do with that is up to you. It’s sad that some people live in areas without access to decent grocery stores. It’s too bad that companies thrive on marketing junk food to poor people, and they go to great lengths to suppress information about their products. It’s too bad that fast food chains smother America.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f2f0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">There’s nothing we can do about this. It’s the way the world works. You should just eat healthy and not worry about anything else.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="68c9" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">We’re not sure what “eating healthy” means. It could mean eating fruits and vegetables, but maybe not. It could mean a paleo diet, a keto diet, an Atkins diet, or a blood-type diet. It could mean taking any number of supplements which might or might not work. It probably means following the advice of fitness gurus and eating what they promote on their social media channels, and their self-published e-books.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d4c3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The best course of action during a pandemic is to follow your diet guide and do absolutely nothing else to keep yourself from catching it. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9f02" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Sure, there’s stories about fit, healthy young people getting really sick with coronavirus. They might take years to recover, or maybe never. There’s more studies showing that even if Covid doesn’t kill you, it can leave you with serious long term illness and disability.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bb2d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Again, that’s just life.</span></p><h1 class="kb je kk kc jw kd kl jx ke jh km jy kf kn jz kg fm ko gj kp kh kq ki ka bb kr kj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8d98" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 36px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Nobody can prove anything.</span></h1><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Some anti-vaxxers have said there’s no way to gather any definitive information on the coronavirus, so there’s no point in having debates. There’s no definitive proof that mRNA vaccines are safe. There’s no definitive proof that the coronavirus infects healthy people and kids.</span></div><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3c44" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">There’s no definitive proof that the virus is mutating into deadlier variants that could escape immunity altogether.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8e48" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The only way to prove something for certain is to see it happen for yourself. Until then, you might as well do whatever you want. That means living your normal life, until you get infected.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6872" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">We all take risks. Driving around in your car poses the same risk as carrying on with your normal routine during a pandemic.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="36c3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">All risks are created equal.</span></p><h1 class="kb je kk kc jw kd kl jx ke jh km jy kf kn jz kg fm ko gj kp kh kq ki ka bb kr kj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="87ab" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 36px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;"><mark class="tf te ob" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If it’s not happening to you, it doesn’t matter.</span></mark></h1><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Anti-vaxxers put their own choices above everything else.</span></div><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c50" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Don’t tell them what to do, it’s that simple.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0ec9" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Lots of anti-vaxxers have said there’s no evidence that they should be worried about the coronavirus, because they haven’t been infected with it. Nobody they know has been infected with it either.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="678c" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">There’s no evidence that hospitals are overrun, because the hospitals where <span class="mt" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">they </span>live are doing just fine. One of them even told me, “If any of this were true, it would be front page news.”</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d84b" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">(Actually, it <span class="mt" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">is</span>.)</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="37cc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It’s fine to use anecdotal evidence to make important decisions. In fact, anecdotal evidence can outmatch statistical data. It’s just as valid, because what you personally observe in your own life is more important than what’s happening anywhere else in the world.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0732" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Out of sight, out of mind.</span></p><h1 class="kb je kk kc jw kd kl jx ke jh km jy kf kn jz kg fm ko gj kp kh kq ki ka bb kr kj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3e8c" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 36px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">All information is subjective.</span></h1><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">There’s a reason why the information you share with anti-vaxxers doesn’t persuade them. They didn’t budge on masking or social-distancing either. It’s because that’s just your opinion.</span></div><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="84e2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Any evidence you present is always incomplete and partial. It can always be challenged by another piece of information.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3e3e" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The media is controlled.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f54d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The CDC is controlled, along with every other agency and fact-checking organization. The information they trust is what they found digging through the web on their own, from people who already agree with them. This information beats yours, always.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3f2b" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">That’s because you’re brainwashed, and you get your information from biased sources who have an agenda. They don’t have one.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1c12" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Only you do.</span></p><h1 class="kb je kk kc jw kd kl jx ke jh km jy kf kn jz kg fm ko gj kp kh kq ki ka bb kr kj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e8a4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 36px; margin: 1.95em 0px -0.28em;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Everyone has a right to a bad opinion.</span></h1><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 0.86em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Anti-vaxxers have told me they’re taking a principled stand on their own individual rights and personal freedoms.</span></div><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="87ae" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">To summarize:</span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="jm je ju mu jv jn jf mv go jo jg mw jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7aa9" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 2em; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If someone wants to catch Covid and take their chances, that’s their right. It doesn’t matter if they spread the virus.</span></li><li class="jm je nb ju jv jn jf mu mv go mw mx jh jp my ji ja jq mz fm jb jj jr gj jc gl jl na jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e972" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If someone else dies, it’s because<span class="mt" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">they </span>should’ve taken better care of themselves — even unvaccinated children.</span></li><li class="jm je nb ju jv jn jf mu mv go mw mx jh jp my ji ja jq mz fm jb jj jr gj jc gl jl na jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e6af" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">There’s no proof that healthy people or children are at risk, even if we’re starting to see more kids in hospitals. The only way to prove that is for thousands of kids to get sick and die. Even if that happens, it’s probably just liberal propaganda.</span></li><li class="jm je nb ju jv jn jf mu mv go mw mx jh jp my ji ja jq mz fm jb jj jr gj jc gl jl na jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f111" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">We should just let everyone do what they want, and then we’ll see how many people die this coming year.</span></li></ul><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a133" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">That’s a fair representation of their stance. It’s exactly what they’ve said to me when it comes to handling the pandemic.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ec8f" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">If you point out how selfish or ignorant this sounds, then <span class="mt" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">you’re</span>being judgmental. You’re the hateful one who’s creating division. You’re the one who has a closed mind, not them.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3428" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You’re the bad guy.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a383" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It’s fine if someone else wants to endanger their own lives, and put yours at risk. It’s fine for corrupt politicians and shock jocks to spread misinformation to tens of millions of people. It’s fine to harass and ridicule health workers and experts you disagree with. It’s fine to openly speculate that maybe it’s the vaccinated people who are responsible for everything, including variants that appeared before vaccines were even available. It’s fine to take it all back after you get really sick, and need their help.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="934f" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Calling them out makes you petty and sanctimonious.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b574" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Anti-vaxxers are allowed to publicly air skepticism and suspicion about vaccines. They’re allowed to threaten doctors and nurses and accuse them of murder. They’re allowed to compare vaccine passports to yellow stars and pink triangles, or even concentration camps.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="684a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You’re supposed to listen to them.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c3db" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You’re supposed to nod.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dba4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It’s fine to believe whatever you want until you get someone killed. It’s fine to refuse masks and vaccines and then infect someone, watch them die, and then blame liberals. Nobody should ever make you feel bad for your colossal mistakes, especially if you never admit them. Everyone makes mistakes that result in incalculable levels of death and suffering.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="abaa" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It’s arrogant and hateful to point out someone else’s logical fallacies and unconscious biases. It’s immature to criticize someone else’s poor behavior or reckless decision making. If you were truly empathetic, you would just shrug and leave them alone.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="83c2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Your hardships and sacrifices over the last year mean nothing to them. You should be kind to the ones who’ve mocked you for wearing a mask and intentionally invaded your personal space at stores, making you anxious to be in public. You should smile at those who’ve disregarded your rights. You should be understanding as they call you a brainwashed sheep, until they finally get sick and deprive you of a hospital bed.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b97a" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Idiots have a right to their opinion. They have a right to respect. They have a right to affordable healthcare.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c55d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You don’t.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="936f" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Whatever you do, never repeat their views back to them.</span></p><p class="jm je ju dn jv jn jf go jo jg jp jh jq ji ja jr fm jb jj gj js jk jc gl jl jd jt b" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9bbe" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">That’s offensive</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/a-summary-of-things-anti-vaxxers-have-told-me-this-week-d04e535c4519?source=emailShare-ba8e79913156-1628772802">Things Anti-Vaxxers Told Me This Week</a> by Jessica Wildfire</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p><br /></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-60877626825861251322021-08-12T07:26:00.007+00:002022-02-06T08:25:40.484+00:00Existing By Your Presence Alone - Anais Nin<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #595959;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #595959;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #595959;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wg3qYq38EeE/YRTL4PJtwCI/AAAAAAAFDO0/QZrf4MXhkkoH5tqhb6VTbp9VwESyO-a1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/The%2BDistant%2BCity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wg3qYq38EeE/YRTL4PJtwCI/AAAAAAAFDO0/QZrf4MXhkkoH5tqhb6VTbp9VwESyO-a1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/The%2BDistant%2BCity.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #595959;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The Distant city - the view from the Mermaid bar on the Gold Coast, Australia <br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 15px;">I spend a great deal off my time recording life as it flies <a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-dazzling-fluidity-of-days.html">(see the strap line of this Journal</a>) and sometimes wonder if my delight in so doing interferes with my actual enjoyment and immersion in the present. To Anais Nin, there was no doubt, and here she </span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">presciently skewers those who move though life endlessly seeking to preserve the experience</span></span></span></p><p><i><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 15px;">I am lying on a hammock, on the terrace of my room at the Hotel Mirador, the diary open on my knees, the sun shining on the diary, and I have no desire to write. The sun, the leaves, the shade, the warmth, are so alive that they lull the senses, calm the imagination. This is perfection. There is no need to portray, to preserve. It is eternal, it overwhelms you, it is complete.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-size: 15px;">Here in Mexico they see only the present. This communion of eyes and smiles is elating. In New York people seem intent on not seeing each other. Only children look with such unashamed curiosity. Poor white man, wandering and lost in his proud possession of a dimension in which bodies become invisible to the naked eye, as if staring were an immodest act. Here I feel incarnated and in full possession of my own body.</span></span></i></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(89, 89, 89); color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 15px;"><i style="background-color: #444444;">To me Acapulco is the detoxicating cure for all the evils of the city: ambition, vanity, quest for success in money, the continuous contagious presence of power-driven, obsessed individuals who want to become known, to be in the limelight, noticed, as if life among millions gave you a desperate illness, a need of rising above the crowd, being noticed, existing individually, singled out from a mass of ants and sheep. Here, all this is nonsense. You exist by your smile and your presence. You exist for your joys and your relaxations. You exist in nature. You are part of the glittering sea, and part of the luscious, well-nourished plants, you are wedded to the sun, you are immersed in timelessness, only the present counts, and from the present you extract all the essences which can nourish the senses, and so the nerves are still, the mind is quiet, the nights are lullabies, the days are like gentle ovens in which infinitely wise sculptor’s hands re-form the lost contours, the lost sensations of the body… As you swim, you are washed of all the excrescences of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstances.</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/14/anais-nin-diary-vacation-presence/?mc_cid=808ea27ffe&mc_eid=00a2ed3545">The Diary of Anais Nin Volume.5</a></span></p><p><a href="https://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-dazzling-fluidity-of-days.html">The Dazzling Fluidity of Days - Freya Stark</a></p><p><a href="http://herrylaw.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/goodbye-cameras.html">The Dazzling Fluidity of Days - Photography</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-58337771331793578352021-08-09T07:29:00.005+00:002021-08-09T07:38:33.461+00:00Confessions<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQhtVb9_iOE/YRDY1vXwZOI/AAAAAAAFDDE/uVXhFj3Uvn8L-LychM4t4CDdknjEon3XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1010/Wild%2BGeese.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1010" height="482" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQhtVb9_iOE/YRDY1vXwZOI/AAAAAAAFDDE/uVXhFj3Uvn8L-LychM4t4CDdknjEon3XwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h482/Wild%2BGeese.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>'The wild geese doe not intend to cast their reflection; the lake has no mind to receive their image' - Chuang Tzu </i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">I am beginning to understand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment">what Dostoevsky said </a>about the need to confess. As one reaches old age, we need to state our truth - to tell our story - not to receive absolution, but simply to set down how we have passed though this world, before our lives dissolve like a bubble on the surface of the lake.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">The need to confess doesn’t absolutely require another person to listen, but if one is fortunate enough to have a friend who can hear one’s story without interruption and most importantly, non-judgementally, I imagine that is more satisfying than talking to a therapist or simply making a recording. We may like those close to us to listen or we may not - but either way, we shouldn’t confess to our spouse, as there may be aspects of the relationship that may be less than ideal and there is no need to go looking for trouble! Furthermore the issue of ‘other women’ will almost certainly arise in any long life, and the purpose of confessing is certainly not to cause pain or give rise to doubts that could poison what’s left of one’s time together. So, men should confess to other men with the clear understanding that any secrets will be securely kept.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Another aspect of this is the desire to tell other people’s stories too. In my case, this takes the form of writing obituaries for those close to me, and substantial eulogies if asked to speak at their funerals. It seems wasteful to me not to record all one can of someone’s life, as otherwise they pass through almost without trace as far as the world is concerned, except for the memories and mementos in the keeping of their families. This is one reason I take so many photos, as I can usually summon up photos to accompany an obituary, to add colour to friends’ lives. Crucially now too, the internet allows such things to be made public - though in practice only someone that knows the obituary had been written will find it. </span>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6923255.post-91982039124785864182021-08-05T07:02:00.012+00:002021-08-10T12:44:24.501+00:00Why Beeezebub Should Chair Your Office Meetings<div class="ds-layout-grid ds-layout-grid--edged layout-article-header" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); column-gap: var(--ds-grid-gutter); display: grid; font-family: MiloTE, MiloTESec, Charter, "Bitstream Charter", "Iowan Old Style", "Calisto MT", serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; grid-auto-flow: row; grid-template-areas: unset; grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); grid-template-rows: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 89.5rem; padding: 0px var(--ds-grid-gutter); position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="article__header" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 9; grid-column-start: 2; grid-row-end: 3; grid-row-start: 2; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><br /></h1><h2 class="article__description" data-test-id="Article Description" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-sans); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-3); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 300; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-upper); margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">A literature lover’s guide to office politics</span></h2></header></div><div class="ds-layout-grid ds-layout-grid--edged layout-article-body" itemprop="text" style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(13, 13, 13); column-gap: var(--ds-grid-gutter); display: grid; font-family: MiloTE, MiloTESec, Charter, "Bitstream Charter", "Iowan Old Style", "Calisto MT", serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; grid-auto-flow: row; grid-template-areas: none; grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); grid-template-rows: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 4rem; max-width: 89.5rem; padding: 0px var(--ds-grid-gutter); position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="layout-sticky-rail" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: -1; grid-column-start: 10; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: 1; height: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><p class="article__body-text article__body-text--dropcap" data-caps="initial" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: -0.375rem 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-caps="initial" face="var(--1843-type-system-slab-serif)" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 6.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; height: 5.5rem; line-height: 1; margin: -0.4375rem 0.4375rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">W</span></span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">e used to make things. Now we have meetings. On any given weekday some 50m meetings are held in American workplaces alone. The average executive now spends 23 hours in them each week, a figure that has more than doubled since the 1960s. The number of meetings proliferated in the 1980s as Western economies moved away from manufacturing towards “knowledge” industries that seemed to require a lot of talking. And while covid-19 may have shut down the office (at least temporarily), it magnified the importance of meetings, which now take place on our laptops. During the pandemic we’ve spent more time in them than we ever did in person.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Despite their centrality to modern life, few of us have a good word to say about meetings. Surveys suggest we consider at least half the ones we attend to be ineffective – the same bores drone on, the people with something useful to say don’t speak and nothing of importance gets decided. In many office cultures, a meeting is a byword for a tedious, time-wasting exercise.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Frustration with meetings has fuelled a mini-industry in management books – “How to Hold Successful Meetings”, “Meeting Design” and “Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable” – dedicated to solving what one author labels “the most painful problem in business”.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Yet perhaps the sharpest analysis lies elsewhere. Though office meetings are a relatively recent phenomenon, people have been gathering to discuss decisions since Adam and Eve huddled over the forbidden fruit, and successive generations of poets and writers have chronicled the dynamics in their work.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">“The Iliad”, Western literature’s foundational text, kicks off with a meeting. The Greeks are nine years into the siege of Troy, a plague has ravaged their ranks and they gather to ponder the flagging campaign (good teamwork is conspicuously absent: Achilles, the Greek’s foremost warrior, comes close to killing the commander, King Agamemnon).</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">In detailing the twists and turns of this conference, and subsequent ones held by the Greeks, Trojans and gods of Mount Olympus, Homer nails meeting behaviour with a precision that management gurus today can only dream of. Where Homer blazes a trail, other literary greats follow: the Western canon is ripe with unharvested wisdom on how to make meetings more productive. Time to put yourself on mute, turn off your camera and get reading.</span></p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--1843-type-system-slab-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-5); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--1843-type-leading-upper); margin: 1.3125rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The Iliad: Listen to your foot soldiers</span></h2><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Though “The Iliad” is ostensibly a book about bloody battles and an interminable siege, much of the action turns on arguments between key individuals. A little way into the epic, the assembled Greeks are once again holding a discussion on what to do about their stalemate (in fact Agamemnon has already resolved to have another crack at the walls of Troy). A commoner, Thersites, speaks up to make the case for cutting their losses: their ships are rotting, they already have plenty of loot and Agamemnon has already proved to be a poor leader. Isn’t it time to head home?</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Odysseus, a high-ranking commander, orders Thersites to check his “glib tongue” and then beats him up for “playing the fool” and daring to “argue with princes”; the crowd delights at Thersites’s humiliation.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">By inviting us to watch a reasonable argument dismissed with violence, Homer makes clear that the Greeks did not believe in a frank exchange of views. The meeting was a large one, but common folk were there to legitimise decisions already taken by their superiors. Such assemblies were clearly as frustratingly common in Homer’s time as they are in ours.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Encouraging junior staff to voice their opinions is one of the biggest difficulties modern managers face. Many, like Homer’s warlords, shut them down – truly open meetings are a nightmare to run. But getting the view from the floor isn’t just good for employees’ morale; it’s a way to gather useful information and different opinions. Any organisation that shuts down its Thersites is losing valuable insights. The Greeks took Troy in the end, but Thersites was right about the state of their navy: Odysseus, famously, got shipwrecked on the way home.</span></p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--1843-type-system-slab-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-5); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--1843-type-leading-upper); margin: 1.3125rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">King Lear: Majesty often stoops to folly</span></h2><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Bosses typically get to be bosses because they are confident in their own judgment and willing to assert themselves. That often means they become furious when they’re challenged – which makes it hard to step back and hold an open discussion.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Few works of literature dramatise this problem better than “King Lear”. Like “The Iliad”, the play opens with a meeting, as Lear discusses how to manage his succession. As with many managers, he has already predetermined the course of action: he plans to divvy up his kingdom between his three daughters. His only decision is how large a share to give each child, a judgment he will make depending on their answer to the question, who “doth love us most”. The real purpose of the meeting, it becomes clear, is for the old king to be lavished with “opulent” praise.</span></p><figure style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 1.3125rem 0px 2.1875rem; max-width: 40rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="1280" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 640px, 95vw" src="https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/1280/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg" srcset="https://www.economist.com/img/b/200/200/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 200w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/300/300/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 300w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/400/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 400w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/600/600/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 600w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/640/640/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 640w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/800/800/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 800w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/1000/1000/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 1000w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/1280/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_002.jpg 1280w" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px;" width="1280" /></div></figure><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">His two older children strive to outdo each other with performative sycophancy (no other joy, apparently, is as great as their love for their father). But Cordelia, his youngest – and the only one who genuinely loves her father, as the play goes on to demonstrate – refuses to flatter him (“I cannot heave my heart into my mouth”). Rather than hear her out, Lear flies into a rage, strips her of her portion and disowns her.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The snap decision testifies to Lear’s poor management skills. What comes next is even more of a no-no. Kent, the king’s most loyal aide, steps in to ask his master to reconsider his punishment of Cordelia. Lear silences him, warning, “Come not between the dragon and his wrath.” Kent insists on speaking his mind, saying he is duty bound to be “unmannerly when Lear is mad”. The king sends him into exile.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The figure of the overbearing leader who pays the price for his failure to countenance “the moody frontier of a servant brow” recurs throughout Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies. In “Henry IV, Part I”, the rebel Hotspur is so unwilling to listen to counsel that his ally Northumberland blasts him for “tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!” In “Richard III” the king turns on Buckingham, his partner in crime, the moment that he expresses faint doubts about Richard’s schemes. Similarly, bosses who expect their underlings merely to back up their views – and leave them too frightened to contradict them – often make bad decisions.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Nowadays, leaders are better at pretending to listen to their subordinates. But fear of displeasing the boss still shapes most meetings. During the Cuban missile crisis, John F. Kennedy was so concerned that his national-security staff would rather say the right thing in front of him than work out the best strategy that he left the room for many discussions.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Today’s chief executives tend to follow King Lear, not Kennedy. According to one study, the person running a meeting generally speaks for between a third and two-thirds of the time allotted to the session. As the authors of this survey noted: “Even in egalitarian Denmark, we very rarely observed meeting participants challenge their leaders’ right to speak as much as they please.” King Lear created a “stage of fools”. Try not to do the same.</span></p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--1843-type-system-slab-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-5); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--1843-type-leading-upper); margin: 1.3125rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Lord of the Flies: Meetings beget meetings, not results</span></h2><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Anyone who thinks keeping a group discussion on track is easy would do well to study “Lord of the Flies”. William Golding’s novel follows a bunch of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. Meetings become central to their attempt to structure their mini-society, and they adopt a rule that anyone can speak if they’re holding the group’s conch shell (a prefiguration of Zoom’s yellow halo).</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">They clearly believe that more voices would improve the group’s decisions. It is a great, democratic experiment. But it fails.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Ralph, the boys’ putative leader, finds it impossible to translate talk into action, and laments the frequency of meetings at which nothing is achieved. “Everybody enjoys speaking and being together. We decide things. But they don’t get done.” His words will resonate with many modern managers.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The inability to manage discussion also results in a two-tier system. As Ralph observes, “practised debaters – Jack, Maurice, Piggy – would use their whole art to twist the meeting.” This leads to less adept speakers becoming marginalised. As Jack puts it: “It’s time some people knew they’ve got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us.”</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">We have all experienced the situation whereby a few individuals dominate – and people who talk first and frequently in meetings tend to have an inordinate impact on the flow of discussion. Individuals who love the sound of their own voice are not necessarily well liked by others in the group, but we generally listen to them: people tend to think of them as influential by default. And talkativeness feeds on itself. Studies show that the more someone contributes in a meeting, the more they are likely to be asked questions. We seem to assume that people speak because they have something useful to say. So it was with Golding’s tribe on the island.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The problem with letting meetings run wild isn’t just that quieter (and less white and less male) voices are marginalised. Counterintuitively, you’re not as likely to learn anything new. Garold Stasser, a social psychologist, has shown that when there are no rules to meetings, conversations tend to be a rehash of what everyone already knows. Meetings without order don’t achieve anything except the entrenchment of powerful personalities, as Piggy learned the hard way. You can’t save a civilisation – or bring light to the darkness of man’s heart – with a conch shell alone.</span></p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--1843-type-system-slab-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-5); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--1843-type-leading-upper); margin: 1.3125rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Paradise Lost: Satan is a hell of a chairman</span></h2><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">At the start of “Paradise Lost” Satan and his army of fallen angels convene, much like Homer’s Greeks, in order to work out how to turn their fortunes around. Satan has just led the infernal rabble in a spectacularly botched rebellion in Heaven and now they’re literally stuck in Hell.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Unlike Agamemnon, Satan seems genuinely keen to come up with a strategy that everyone supports (not for nothing was John Milton an advocate of the parliamentarians in England’s civil war).</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">When Satan opens the floor to debate, four arch-demons make their case. Moloch advocates “open Warr”. Belial, whom Milton describes as an artful and cynical speaker, suggests that they do nothing and hope God sees fit to forgive them. Mammon argues for abandoning any idea of returning to Heaven and instead building an empire in Hell. And Beelzebub counsels sending a demon to Earth to seduce or destroy this “new Race call’d Man”. The issue is put to a vote.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">This emphasis on collective decision making characterised many literary meetings after Homer. Influenced by the ideals of Athenian democracy, playwrights such as Aesychlus and Euripides depicted meetings in which the outcome was decided by the mood in the room, not the most senior person there. The result wasn’t always the right one, but the procedure was represented as admirable.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">In Hell, the diabolical assembly chose to precipitate the fall of Man – which turns out to be the option Satan was most in favour of all along. Some scholars have suggested that Satan manipulated the vote. But perhaps they don’t want to acknowledge that, in getting people to vote for his preferred outcome, Satan was simply really good at meetings.</span></p><figure style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 1.3125rem 0px 2.1875rem; max-width: 40rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="1280" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 640px, 95vw" src="https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/1280/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg" srcset="https://www.economist.com/img/b/200/200/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 200w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/300/300/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 300w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/400/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 400w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/600/600/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 600w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/640/640/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 640w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/800/800/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 800w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/1000/1000/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 1000w, https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/1280/90/media-assets/image/1843_20210803_MEETINGS_003.jpg 1280w" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px;" width="1280" /></div></figure><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Management by plebiscite is not, of course, a viable option for most companies. But Satan knew what he was doing. It’s a good idea to ask everyone in the room to register their opinion at the end of the session, even if you don’t have a yes-no question – you can ask people how likely they think an outcome is, or to rank the various options presented. As well as giving people a sense that their voice matters, consulting a wider group gives leaders access to a collective judgment that – as a large body of literature on the wisdom of crowds shows – is likely to be a good one.</span></p><h2 style="border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--1843-type-system-slab-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-5); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--1843-type-leading-upper); margin: 1.3125rem 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">The Talmud: Honour thy disagreements</span></h2><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Deep in the laws and commentaries of the Talmud, there is an unusual provision about capital punishment: if all 71 judges in a capital case agree that the death penalty should be imposed, then it is automatically taken off the table.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">This seems counterintuitive, given that courts today often insist on unanimity to convict someone of murder. But the Talmudic principle embodies an important insight about the perils of consensus: if everyone is seeing things a certain way, you may well have missed something important.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">When you look back at famously bad decisions made by small groups – the launch of the Challenger space shuttle, Enron’s board of directors signing off on risky accounting practices – it’s striking how sure participants were that they were right, and how little disagreement was voiced.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">Arthur Schlesinger, an adviser to Kennedy, noted that in the discussions that led up to the Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961, meetings “took place in a curious atmosphere of assumed consensus”. Information that might have disrupted that accord was excluded or rationalised away. The longer people talked to each other, the dumber they became. Meetings didn’t open minds, it closed them.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">You sometimes need an active strategy to avoid groupthink, which arises from a toxic but beguiling combination of conformism and positive reinforcement. When the judges of the Sanhedrin, the supreme Jewish court in Temple times, passed their verdicts, they would speak in reverse order of seniority, so that less experienced judges wouldn’t tailor their opinions to fit those of senior ones.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">More recent management experts like Kathleen Eisenhardt and Jay Bourgeois actively encourage a “good fight” in meetings. Arguments can be a sign that participants fundamentally trust each other and are working towards the same goal – that’s what allows them to express substantive differences of opinion.</span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">It takes a rare leader to see discord as a boon, however. Alfred Sloan, the legendary boss of General Motors from the 1920s to the 1950s, was one such maverick. “Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here,” he said at the end of one board meeting. “I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting, to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain understanding of what the decision is all about.” Agamemnon would probably have had him thrashed. </span><span data-ornament="ufinish" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.275rem 0.0625rem; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;">■</span></span></p><p class="article__body-text" style="align-self: baseline; border: 0px; color: var(--ds-color-london-5); font-family: var(--ds-type-system-serif); font-size: var(--ds-type-scale-2); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; grid-column-end: 10; grid-column-start: 4; grid-row-end: auto; grid-row-start: auto; line-height: var(--ds-type-leading-lower); margin: 0px 0px 0.875rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James Surowiecki </span>is the author of “The Wisdom of Crowds”</span></p></div>Herry Lawfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17649872903736528348noreply@blogger.com0