Walking in Longleat forest to record the opening narrative for my new video project MenKind – Ten men talking about Kindness. It was comissioned for the Frome Kindness Festival and screened to an all male audience on March 21 in The Crown Inn, Keyford.
You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/YM_RP6Ec99s
More soon
On Maundy Thursday (2022) I set out alone from Frome station for Durres in Albania to walk the route of an ancient Roman road, the Via Egnatia, to Thessaloniki. Crossing Europe by train took six days, although for the last 20km I walked along, rather than rode the railway tracks since most of the Albanian railway system had been shut down.
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Our local pub’s ownership has changed hands again and we eagerly await it’s re-opening under Jesse’s management.
Here’s a short film about the Crown on the last night before redevelopment and what local residents would like to see now.
The British assault on the small Flemish town of Loos on 25 September 1915 was one of the least glamorous episodes of the First World War. It is notorious for the first use of poison gas by the British. In fact the gas drifted back and some of the world’s first casualties of chemical warfare were thus British troops. A shortage of ammunition for the artillery bombardment meant that the infantry advance was a bloodbath. By the end of the first day, of 10,000 British soldiers who attacked German defences over 8,000 were dead or wounded. Three weeks of futile attack and counter-attack followed without an inch of ground gained. On 16 October a German sniper got his chance and shot a twenty-year-old British Captain through the head. In his knapsack 37 poems were found. His name, Charles Sorley. Continue reading
“The rebel l
eaders stated that they are willing to enter into dialogue with the government.” Author unknown but quoted in an hundred EFL textbooks
A dialogue group at University of Winchester
The Three Faiths Forum is an admirable organisation which has done much to improve inter-religious relations in London. It has also committed a crime, at least to my ears, in coining the word “trialogue” to describe a conversational process between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Not only have they fashioned an ugly neologism but they have reinforced a widespread misperception that dialogue is an exchange between two sides. If the word “dialogue” had a Latin root this might be understandable, but we must go back to the Greek διᾰ́λογος to find its literal meaning: “through words”. Continue reading
The long
standing informal path beside the river between Wallbridge and Adderwell in Frome is threatened by a private development which will block a crucial section. Continue reading
