by Geoff | Aug 11, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
“It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.” John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance, ...
by Geoff | Jul 30, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
Sit with me here at Porthgwarra let’s listen to the bell in the buoy and notice the way whatever we hadn’t noticed is coming to rest in a greeny-blue interval between the strike of one sour sea-note and the next. And even if it’s true that the voice in the buoy...
by Geoff | Jul 28, 2017 | UK, West Penwith
“Sancreed is a land of stone circles and cave-dwellings, crosses and cromlechs, barrows and menhirs, Holy wells and ancient oratories. In no other part of the country are there so many relics of what is popularly called the prehistoric age. Myth and romance,...
by Geoff | Jul 20, 2017 | UK
The recent conflagration at Grenfell Tower in London seems destined to be one of those defining moments which socially and unconsciously resonate for generations. At its most simple ( if it can be described as such ) it is an indescribable tragedy where upwards of 80...
by Geoff | Jul 5, 2017 | UK
In 1948 the Empire Windrush docked in Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up Carribean servicemen who were on leave. The recently introduced British Nationality Act 1948 gave British citizenship to all people living in Commonwealth countries, and full rights of entry and...
