25 Hay Festival

A cover for the small trailer so I could take the two oldest ram lambs to the abbattoir in Llanthony without them jumping out on the way. It involved converting an old gate and is cobbled together with baler twine but it worked fine.

The nape of Sarah’s neck.

Almost none. This is one of the great betrayals of the 21st century, a glorious new tool for the controllers to control with extra zeal. Perhaps getting rid of the armed security of ex-prime ministers and presidents might make them think of the consequences of their actions a little more carefully...

Last week WG Sebald’s ‘After Nature.’: In 1973 T.H. White’s ‘The Goshawk’: Thomas Traherne and Henry Vaughan in the summer of ‘77: The headstones in the graveyard of the Chapel at Capel y ffin.

No
Not least because the biggest problem facing famine relief is not the shortage or nature of food but the distribution of it. Secondly there are too many vested interests in western food production to allow proper and effective food production and distribution by those that need it most - and can afford it least.

No
At least as much as the events that happen after the death of one’s great grandparents. The things that matter happen simultaneously in the blink of an eye and the life of a planet. The two cannot be disconnected. Until we - as individuals - own the mountains and streets and waters and skies then we are completely powerless in the pressing present. Every action has a reaction and the ripples always arrive somewhere, sometime. It seems inevitable that it will often be some other ages time. But to care about the future you have to care - and know - about the past and politicians in particular seem to be wilfully ignorant of that.

The Centuries of Meditation by Thomas Trahern
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Dir. Ermmano Olmi)
The Beatles A Hard Days Night