Herry's Journal

A selection of writings, speeches, photographs and events as well as some of my favourite literary passages.

Monday, 28 March 2022

Going Solar March 2022

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The solar panels installed on the east and west sides of the garage roof With the drumbeat of climate change underscored by the scherzo of h...
Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Michael Ignatieff on Consolation - the Book of Job and the Psalms

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Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff, whom I have long admired since reading his superb biography of  Isaiah Berlin , has given us some fasci...
Wednesday, 2 February 2022

Favourite World Radio - KPCC at 89.3 FM

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KPCC 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 ...
Wednesday, 22 December 2021

Lighting the Garden at Old Swan House

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The garden lights now come on automatically based on a movement sensor I began putting lights in the garden a few years ago, first down the ...
Sunday, 28 November 2021

Vandana Shiva on Quantum Theory

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  "The pandemic has killed many people. And the pandemic is because we killed nature. The UN has admitted we are only treating the symp...
Sunday, 21 November 2021

Giles Wingate-Saul 1945 - 2021

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  Gules Wingate-Saul (right) with Julian Avery, John Collard and Richard Smith. Anglesea Arms, London 2026 Photo by Herry. Giles Wingate Win...
Thursday, 18 November 2021

The Making of the Florentine Garden

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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 ancie...
Wednesday, 27 October 2021

President Kennedy's Speech on Poetry and Art at Amherst (1963)

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John Kennedy  In 1963, Kennedy was invited to Amherst College to give  talk  honouring Robert Frost who had recently died. These are  excerp...
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Stockbridge In the Age of the Coronavirus - the DL's Visit October 2021

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On 8th October 2021 the Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, Andrew Kent, came to Stockbridge to thank all those who had played a significant par...
Thursday, 7 October 2021

The Church Closers' Charter and Other Attacks on the CofE Churches

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Following the closure of all C of E churches (ie not Catholic ones) in March 2020 because of the pandemic, many people became very disillusi...
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