Post 18/2022 Thursday 28 April . . . With our stay in Cornwall ending soon, it's hard to hold my weekly amble through the English alphabet to a trot rather than a gallop. Gasp. Tighten the reins. This is slow travel, after-all. As my father concluded after an extended family gathering (that included food, games, …
Post 17/2022 Thursday 21 April . . . A segment on BBC Breakfast, Wednesday, featured a dementia choir. Brilliant! People with dementia and their carers sang, motioned and danced with the song, Sweet Caroline. Smiles, engagement, fun. Will we see a national director for dementia appointed to wave the baton for making a joyful noise? …
Post 16/2022 Saturday 16 April . . .No place appears immune from issues circling the globe, including in our seaside idyll in Cornwall UK. I use the word "idyll" advisedly, drawing on its definition as a period of happiness, peacefulness and picturesqueness. Those qualities, with deep gratitude, bolster the opportunities, challenges and joys of our …
Post 15/2022 Friday 8 April . . . World attention and response continues to focus on the suffering, death and devastation inflicted by the unprovoked war in Ukraine. How does one come to terms with its gravity? Certainly, many people have responded in positive ways, help coming from individuals, families, communities, organizations, nations. I've also …
Post 14/2022 Thursday 31 March . . . My, my, what a fine time we had this week with great-niece Jenny and her husband Rory. They hopped across the pond from Boston, arriving in St Ives after a five-and-a-half-hour Great Western Railway journey from London Paddington. Together we treaded ancient pathways, traipsed through Areas of …
Post 13/2022 Friday 25 March . . . Music has helped raise spirits and support for Ukrainians facing the unspeakably devastating invasion of their country. In the early days of the war, seven-year-old Amelia Anisovych sang the Ukrainian national anthem while she and her family were holed up in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, a …
Post 12/2022 Saturday 19 March . . . On Friday we attended the service celebrating the life of Terry Trevorrow at St Anta and All Saints Church, Carbis Bay. The Reverend Etienne van Blerk conducted the service. David Tremelling was Organist. We sang the Scottish Psalter version (1650) of the Lord's Prayer. The last stanza: …
Post 11/2022 Friday 11 March , , , Let's get some meat on the alphabetical bones of this series of 13 blogs, AB-YZ, from Cornwall. For G, I've selected Gad Fly: "A general name for the blood-sucking tabanid flies, apparently a misnomer, because the flies that actually cause cattle to gad about madly with tails …
Post 10/2022 Saturday 5 March . . . There's only one real topic these days--the conflict in Ukraine, where Russia's president has unleashed a full scale attack on a modern democratic nation. The aggressor's tactics belong to an outdated past, not the 21st century. It's an affront to civilized society, a society that calls for …
Post 9/2022 Saturday 26 February . . . Week CD simply means this is blog number two from Cornwall UK; number two of a total of 13 anticipated posts during our stay here. I hope this doubled-up walk through the English alphabet does not prove too confusing. Next time: EF. Enough of that. This week …
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