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Bredonborough.
New reading: a recommendation from Anthony Blake
- Mary Douglas’ Thinking In Circles (Yale 2007).
The electrician is coming here tomorrow at 08.00, to find why one particular circuit keeps jumping out, so I am remaining in Bredonborough to meet him, instead of driving South to DGM HQ.
Good to live & work in the same immediate locale; as in the beginning years of DGM. For one whose work has kept them traveling consistently & regularly for 38 years, if frequent-travelling is viewed increasingly as an ecological crime & carbon-unfriendly, well, I’ll be really really happy to stay at home (although preferably with reliable broadband). There is so much richness to be explored within a small area that home, World HQ & Bredonborough are already three small areas with a plurality of sufficiencies for me.
Organising the cellar of HQ, another Small Area Of Sufficiency…
Books are being moved off the table onto shelves…
What’s that on the floor?...
And on the wall?...
The original Pete Frame family tree of Crimson & Roxy.
What’s that on the top shelf of those free-standing bookshelves?...
L>R: Mother & Father enjoying lunch by their car c. 1980; Brother Peter Willis holding my Godson Jack in the early days of our farming project near Godol[phin Cross in Cornwall, also c. 1980; and adoptive Uncle, Pierre Elliot.
On a chair, awaiting hanging, a picture of my Mother with her class at Arael Mixed…
Edith Greene is in the middle on the right, distinguished by the tie & braces. This would have been about the time she was awarded the Certificate of Merit for her lecture on the evils of alcohol.
Now, on the wall below her Grandmother & Great Grandfather…
"Nothing is compulsory, but some things are necessary."
