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Monthly archive for March 2007
Showing results 6 - 10 of 23 for the month of March, 2007.
23 Mar 2007
One of my favourite books is Charles Dickens’ **Great Expectations**. Dickens was a great social commentator, a literary scourge of the judiciary, the bankers, the evils of Victorian society, but also a great celebratory of its good side and of its good people. He was also one of the best creators of characters in the English language. I was flipping through it the other day, and came across the wonderful description of Mr Wemmick’s house. Mr Wemmick is a clerk who works for the vile Mr Jaggers, the lawyer, spending his days in a dark and dusty office in Newgate in London, and is described as having a face that looked as though it had been carved out of wood with a blunt chisel. His home life is a secret to his boss, and one day he takes Pip, our hero, back to his house for tea.
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22 Mar 2007
**Jerry Mander** was in Totnes recently teaching at Schumacher College, and he gave a Wednesday evening talk for Transition Town Totnes which was excellent and very well attended. For those of you who don’t know who he is, here is what Wikipedia has to say about him. “Jerry Mander is an American activist best known for his book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), and for his contribution to a book on an unrelated topic, The Great International Paper Airplane Book (1971).
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21 Mar 2007
This evening sees the first event from Transition City Bristol, the largest scale Transition project in the UK (yet). Dr. Chris Johnstone will be giving a talk tonight at 7pm at the Trinity Centre, Bristol. Chris was a star at the Official Unleashing of Transition Town Totnes, and his talk will be called “Personal Power for the Planet: looking at ways you can deepen your determination, cultivate enthusiasm and become more inspired”.
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21 Mar 2007
On Monday 5th March I gave a 15 minute presentation to **Totnes Town Council** at the Guildhall in Totnes, about TTT and what it is doing. The presentation was at their invitation and was an opportunity to officially bring the Council up to speed, despite some of its members having already attended some of our events. After my presentation, which was well recieved, the Council passed a resolution officially endorsing the work of TTT, which feels like an important and an historic milestone. The full resolution that they passed appears below;
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20 Mar 2007
While I was washing up I heard a ridiculous story on the news that I am still thinking through the implications of. The Lake District is famous at this time of year for its amazing displays of daffodils, especially thanks to Wordsworth’s poem, but the exceptionally warm winter and mild spring have meant that the daffodils have all flowered and wilted much earlier than usual, and, most importantly, before the tourists arrive. The South Lakeland Parks holiday park at Fallbarrow, on the shores of Lake Windermere, has responded by planting thousands of plastic and silk ones instead.
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One of my favourite books is Charles Dickens’ **Great Expectations**. Dickens was a great social commentator, a literary scourge of the judiciary, the bankers, the evils of Victorian society, but also a great celebratory of its good side and of its good people. He was also one of the best creators of characters in the English language. I was flipping through it the other day, and came across the wonderful description of Mr Wemmick’s house. Mr Wemmick is a clerk who works for the vile Mr Jaggers, the lawyer, spending his days in a dark and dusty office in Newgate in London, and is described as having a face that looked as though it had been carved out of wood with a blunt chisel. His home life is a secret to his boss, and one day he takes Pip, our hero, back to his house for tea.
