I’m at that age when it’s OK to do some discreet shoplifting: a fifth of Jack Daniels in an inside pocket, or a side of smoked salmon slipped down a trouser leg. If I’m apprehended by a store detective, I’m ready with my response: “I’m a pensioner. I’m on new medication. I don’t know what I’m doing”.
Licenced today: Sibsey Trader Mill in Lincolnshire…
“Religions the world over have insisted on the torture of self-denial, abstemiousness, control, suppression, and every form of psychological amputation. Surely to find whatever there is to be found, something not the result of your tortured, despairing life, you must have a mind that is untortured, unmutilated, very simple, very clear, without having any particular direction; a quality of mind that is really innocent, though it may have lived a thousand experiences. You must have a certain quality of open, fresh innocence” (Krishnamurti).
Licenced today: the village of Prestbury, in Cheshire…
Licenced today: the 7th century Saxon church at Escomb, near Bishop Aukland, County Durham…
According to the Guardian, at least 6,500 migrant workers have died in the ten years since Qatar was awarded the World Cup. A more recent investigation has found that workers employed on World Cup-related projects have had to work 12-hour shifts across 30 days a month to earn the equivalent of about £1 an hour. These are the facts that need to be stated, and re-stated, as the players warm up for a competition in a repressive regime which knows as little about human rights as it does about football.
Licenced today: buses in the town centre, Taunton, Somerset…
"Are you an individual? You have a different body, a different name, a
bank account, maybe a disease – but are you an individual? You are
conditioned like everybody else, and within that limited area that you
call the individual, everything arises: your miseries, despairs,
jealousies, fears. Everything comes from that limited, narrow,
fragmentary existence that we are so proud of, with our individual souls
and individual wills. With this messy, little stuff, we want to proceed
to uncover God, truth, love and all the rest of it. You cannot. All you
can do, if you are attentive, is to be aware of your fragment and the
struggles of the fragment. The fragment can never become the whole. Do
what you will, the spoke can never become the wheel. So one has to find
out, inquire into this whole problem of the separative, narrow, little
existence we call the individual" (Krishnamurti, from a public talk in 1964).
Another licencing infringement for this pic of the RADAR station of top of Great Dun Fell, near Cross Fell, North Pennines...
