Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Friday, May 28, 2010

the issue

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Had to evict a toad from the house on Thursday morning as I continued to muse about the house decision. Now it has become an issue more of p...

house musings

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Wednesday morning I wrote and read. McEwan’s Saturday is quite amazing in its language as its neuro-surgeon muses during his operations, en...

deja vu

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I had been advised that the Crozon peninsula was something special – and so it proved. On the way, another visit to the brocanteur at Plonov...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

pace of life

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Up early again and, as I sat on the patio and saw the clockhand move to 09.00, I realised how quickly time is moving. I thought that time wa...

the Quimper area

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Sunday and Monday were scorchers – with temperatures reaching 28 for (another!) holiday weekend (they were even talking on the radio about t...

Finistere

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Saturday the drive to Finistere – at leisure. Following my nose to see little villages and the canal. The “deep countryside” remark was be...

last day in redon area

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Friday morning was waste of time – with 2 rural houses near Redon for which I still have a preference. But a revisit at midday to the St Nic...
Friday, May 21, 2010

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Wednesday, knowing that I wd be seeing some houses at La Garcilly – on the river Aff - popped in on my way to Redon and was quite taken with...
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Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania
Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains
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