WHAT HOUSE: The Room Outdoors
I’m still on the road filming House Doctor for C5 and Cash in the Attic for BBC1 and as a scurry up and down the M1 visiting people’s...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Where is the summer, the unimaginable / Zero summer?
Was on another long odyssey through the West Country, visiting remaining members of my mother’s extraordinary family. Great Auntie Betty...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
Jesus Walks in Brooklyn
Just back from New York and about to beetle off to Brazil for a month. Love NYC. Like Skegness, it’s so bracing. I love seeing all my...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
if you are Learn’d, Be not as common Fooles if you are not Let them have cushions by you
Finally, I saw something at the theatre that I really liked. Something that was actually theatre rather than just a nicey-nicey radioplay...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
JC at election time
JC at ELECTION TIME Went to see the Deborah Warner Julius Caesar at the Barbican on Election Night. I’ve never seen it staged before –...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Clegg: Yes We Can
For the first time since 1997, British politics is getting exciting. The televised debate suddenly opened up the possibility that the Lib...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Roberto Fonseca
I have to say that I hate jazz. All those endless jabbering solos. It rubs me up the wrong way – and I usually avoid it like the plague....
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
the path to enlightenment: Holy Island March 2008
Been up on Holy Island for the 2008 “After the ABC” course which was intense and wonderful. We had snow, storms, sun, wind, sleet, hail...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
FILM REVIEW: Eyes Wide Shut
Last things tend to benefit immeasurably from their lastness. Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s String Quartets. Shakespeare’s Later Plays....
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
January notes on ayahuasca
JANUARY NOTES ON AYAHUASCA But there’s no doubt in my mind that I have changed. And that those changes are quite marked. Perhaps I should...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Austerity?
Yesterday, the UK Coalition Government introduced the ‘Bedroom Tax’ which affects 670,000 people (most cruelly those with disabilities)...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Went with Gary to the Barbican to see Robert Wilson. Tom Waits. William Burrough’s The Black R
Went with Gary to the Barbican to see Robert Wilson/Tom Waits/William Burrough’s The Black Rider. So I was a little apprehensive about...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Stalker Stalker
It’s cold and grey and January. I’m chilly in my flat and have gifted myself a day of doing nothing. So I’m watching a DVD that’s come to...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
‘Black Star’: Death and the Bowie
I was coming down the snowy mountain from my 3-week retreat when David Bowie died. I don’t much care to add to the pile of panegyric that...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Repeat x 108: "I give myself permission to put myself first"
My therapist gave me this mantra: “I give myself permission to put myself first” – and I’ve been rotating around it for a couple of weeks...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
Ayahuasca Thoughts…
It’s been a while since I’ve written in here about ayahuasca. This is partly because the work I’ve been doing there, in Brazil, has been...
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