SeeThrough Theatre Company
Making Contact I came across preparations for 'Brazil For All' quite by accident. Residents in protected housing flats were making costumed models in their common room to show in the…
Social life essentially includes our social structures, such as groups and culture and our social behaviours, such as communicating and networking. Social involves other people. Blogs here are mainly concerned with group activities, such as parties or going on demonstrations. Inviting people to a birthday celebration, for example, is a very social activity. Expressed in terms of being, this would be being-in-the-eyes-of-others.
Mabsz
I was travelling to Paris on Eurostar recently to join Paola in Auzon. Mabinta was taking her friend to Paris for the night as a treat for her friend's birthday.…
Fitness First!
WENDY HARDING DANCE TEACHER -FITNESS ENTHUSIAST! At the age of 51 I am very grateful to be fit, well and feeling full of energy. Many people pass comments like “your…
Eloge de la Jachère – English Translation
JL: Rather than write a simple critique, I am trying to do 2 things. First, I am trying to provide better access to the story for English speakers, whose French…
Eloge de la Jachere
This text was written in March 2020 and initially published in Gros Gris magazine in January 2021 ( https://grosgris.fr/ ) Glandue. Ce mot, je l'ai très souvent entendu pendant mon enfance. Désignant…
A Gift for Athena by John Wade
Athena Pallas Athena laid aside her fierce bronze helm, Protectress of ancient Attica, her sea girt realm; A maiden with flashing eyes and burnished hair, Swooped to cloudy Britain, mortal…
The Trouble with Facebook
This section brings together 'shortcomings' of Facebook. The use of 'shortcomings' here is ironic....... Facebook Friends for Sale - Hardly Used 2. Facebook Seniors Learn to Get Ahead
Ben’s Gumpics
Ben Wilson is known for his brightly-coloured artworks. They are unusual in as much as they are created on chewing gum, which is stuck to the pavement, having been flattened…
Clay Tiles by BBF
Introduction BBF - I started a new hobby, to round out my days. Clay relief tiles. This is the 1st - I started it earlier today. Don’t laugh - it…
J and BBF’s Auzon Phrasebook for First and Second Homers
Like all good ideas on this blogsite, the present escapade originated from two different people and started out as two different ideas. BBF's idea was for J to help her improve…
Trouble Shooting a Garden
JL has a very large second-home garden - 500M2, in France. It was unwanted; but went with the house, which was going for a song. Irresistible or what? However, with…
What My Family Means To Me
The small cluster of surviving SPs are of course scattered and inaccessible at the moment. N has maintained a strict social isolation policy because she feels that she is in…
Flying Turtles by Dr DD
MH I really enjoyed and like this. There is an unreal air about it all; but it's also very much to the point. It's at the same time a bit…
CP BioBook
This is a post (!) modern (that is, non-linear) memoir (or autobiography) of CP. The life categories of CP are nevertheless ordered by decade. They can be accessed independently of…
Covid-19 – Witness to Your Own Experience
More than enough has been written about the dreaded virus. It would be impertinent to try to add thereto and certainly not in similar vein. Personal witnessing to the truth,…
Personalising Petitions – How, Why and Some Examples
On-line petitions have become quite popular with the spread of digital communications and some would argue quite influential too. Petitioners are encouraged to 'personalise their petitions' by the petition organisers,…
A Political Ping Pong Exchange between Unlikeminded Cousins and Others
INTRODUCTION BREMAIN/BREXIT EXCHANGE https://www.facebook.com/john.long.73550794/posts/2213357368701040https://www.facebook.com/home.php Dear John Long, The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU.”. Government responded: You’re receiving this email because…
‘Life at GW’ by Cousin P
Cousin P and I have little or nothing in common except some early shared family experiences and and our tertiary education. The former consisted of very jolly Xmas and family…
Bremain versus Brexit – or How the Lion lay down with the Lamb
Following a Blog Posters' Executive Committee minutes to-do list, we have decided to take on major issues of the day. Again, witnessing to the truth of our own experience, we…
Dialogue of the Death?
DIALOGUE OF THE DEATH? SP and MH have known each other on and off since the early ‘70s, when both were researchers in C. Their relationship has many aspects –…