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Musing on Madness
I’m watching four squirrels chasing each other. They’re sure-footed, purposeful, amusing. I’m not sure of they are cross with each other, playing together or just bonkers. Normal animal behaviour seen through human eyes and interpreted as madness… Last year we watched ‘Hamilton’. The story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the United…
Ash Wednesday Lessons
Today, Ash Wednesday, Christians traditionally remember their frailty and mortality, often reading: ‘…for dust you are and to dust you will return.’ Last night I woke up anxious and upset… Looking forward to my new teaching job, I set off in my car on my first morning but didn’t know where the school was! People…
Dwile Flonking
Yesterday’s Eastern Daily Press declared: ‘Dwile Flonking is coming back to Halesworth for the first time in fifty years this summer.’ Dwile flonking is played outdoors by two teams. One team joins hands and forms a circle. A member of the other team (the flonker) stands in the middle holding a beer-soaked cloth at the…
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