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I went for a walk with my friends little boy who we commonly know as Pobbins yesterday. We weren’t expecting to be enveloped in the crowds of Southampton’s Sikh community who were celebrating Vaisakhi. An ancient northern Indian harvest festival … Continue reading
Street children in Cambodia are some of the most vulnerable young people alive. Today, April 12th, is a day when the organisation International Day for Street Children give children like this a voice. They deserve more attention, more food, more comfort and more love.
Give them a hand.
A few spaces available!
‘Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.’ Kurt Vonnegut
Green Tours Cambodia, apart from loosing her phone in the great Tonle Sap lake, had a great time running a private tour at Phnom Kulen.
To celebrate black history month, organised in Southampton in part by my good friend Don Jon manager of reggae band Ebony Rockers and race relations consultant, an exhibition of photographs (including some of mine) will be featured until end November at The Soul Cellar Southampton. Go see it or if you can’t? All of the fantastic photographers featured can be found at the wonderful www.johnnytoaster.co.uk
(Nice styling Toaster!)
I have been collecting ‘green‘ links a plenty from interesting people on my travels to blog about so I shall catch up a little whilst I grab some down time and nurse a hacking cough. Fresh ginger, lime and Cambodian honey tea is helping.
On my journey here I got chatting to a lovely woman, Henny, travelling home to Bali with her daughter India. What India thought of the young people dominated recent UK troubles and riots as a young adult herself I know not but, I do know, Henny’s daughter is one very lucky young woman as she studies at Green School in Bali.
Image © Green School
For a girl like me who found school an utter trial and would play truant to sit in the local park to talk to the trees and daydream I can think of little better than a building and green spaces such as these children have as a place to learn about the world.
Image © Iwan Baan
Green Schools website tells me that they are “preparing students to be critical and creative thinkers who are confident to champion the sustainability of the world and its environment.” It sounds great and the bamboo building is out of this world. Designed by John and Cynthia Hardy its sweeping spiral roofs and open air classrooms bring the natural world into the learning space and the students into the managed wilds to learn sustainability skills.
Lovely Henny! Should you read this do get in touch, Bali has moved up on my to visit list!
Sorry dear blog, it’s been too long, I got lost in the fields of the ‘shire there a while, come see…
Blissfields 2011
There is a freedom in the summer,
as the corn fields call us home,
to chase fireflies and fancies,
moments of joy…
Royal Victoria Country Park Hospital through slate and stone sculpture ~ 50,000 patients were treated here during WWI, Queen Victoria loved it, Florence Nightingale deemed it vain. I’m really enjoying exploring black & white.
