new year

a very happy new year to all my friend
when I was younger news came fast and furious and there was an urgency in communication ,and ,there was only snail mail.
Now,when each year is marked only by the extra number of grey hairs and inches, and really, who needs to know that, communication is instant.
So this is up to the minute breaking news
-Gaia has retaliated - Planet says "I wont say this again" -Who says the savior has to be human in form---Fog reduces carbon emissions--- thousands ask, is my journey really necessary?---Fog is- --covering as it does all regardless of race gender or religion.

Back in the more material world , the Family Tribe continues to increase its contribution to Female supremacy

Natasha, Daniels wife gave birth to a little girl in June ,Sofia. Siena is attending pre school now and she and I spend quality time together 4 or 5 times a year,we haven't yet got to discussing many serious subjects but we do converse on art. Sofia on the other hand , at six months, has decided to train in long distance push the stool and mountain climbing, Jupiter beware.
Daniel is working for an American company I do not understand what he does .he has a flourishing allotment as well as career.
Natasha is busy raising the future

Luke and Yael are expecting a baby in 2007 . Well done that couple, after Lukes heart failure and recent problems we will all be pleased to see him spending a little less time in the office attempting to finance the national debt and a little more enjoying time with his new family.
He hasn't taken up golf yet but a little more drumming maybe. Anyway he has moved from Bond management to credit analyst and Im sure he thinks I still believe he serves in Safeway, tell the truth I do.Yael is also busy raising the future as well as learning to drive and looking after her folks and horse, is a woman's work never done.

Sarah has moved bought a dilapidated house and attempted to renovate it in three months as well as being mother working with Gay Glos setting up rural friendship groups and oral history projects and that's what I remember. Next year she has some free lance work and may well attempt to finish her degree.James is doing well at the crypt I notice cards around the place informing us of his high achievements
A writer of some note already .Jessica seems to take all the moves in her stride, , both children are a bundle of enthusiasm and chaos.

Mark is studying in india. Massage ,meditation , self development and bike repairs.
From The Himalayas to Rajasthan on to Goa on an old enfield bike.He is now part of another tribe , the Bullet Wallys. Hopefully he will have worked his way through his grief at the end of his marriage by then, or I for one will wring his neck in a very pacifist way, and with great love .
Meanwhile his daughters are responsibly continuing with their education, getting prizes and scholarships.They will add depth to the firm, Tams is doing Human Biology I know she would like to be a doctor, Alice has sadly changed from law to accountancy,and I was so looking forward to her defending me. Megan is still apprenticed as a 14 year old.

Ella continues with the honing and is now the last female honer in the country,If anyone wishes for further information on this I will forward her e mail address(with her permission) she will explain it beautifully . I think it is the ideal job for a perfectionist. her daughter Kate has just left home to start her independent life hopefully she will go back to college to finish her education this year although her distribution dept would fall apart without her, and the london Fashion shows are the losers as she is not available,



My cats get fatter and fatter not rotund ,square.

Oh me
Performance every Thursday mostly new poems.Of course sometimes I don't manage one , mainly after a particularly painful week.That is one with no intellectual stimulus
I have tried to escape the clutches of Chalford Hill a couple of times. Once to goole in search of that holiday idea paradise. I have an independent guide to goole for those who request it.

Marrakech! Now there's a story so painful that I have as yet not written a poem about it, the train journey was enough let alone the rain and the detours. I have just recovered ,some two months later.

I continue to participate in the community and the democratic process representing Chalford hill, social housing tenants on energy efficiency forums and access groups.
Next year may be my first as a producer director of a pantomime and a Festival of women's performance art.
Mostly I am still appalled at the standard of social housing in the area and believe our real role in the democratic process, is to decide where to cut services or standards for the most vulnerable in our country. Namly me. However we can at least take advantage of the public sphere to make our voices heard in the area of future policy, shouting in the wind.

I have started producing small booklets of my poetry
I have a Cd available . 'Word of Mouth for Folk'. I am
now working towards an exhibition based on the tower of Babel, the next in my series of The Philosopher in the Kitchen
I am looking forward to the new grandchild, and spending time with the others
Thank you for those who have sent me their news. Happy new year to you all.It would be lovely to recieve a visit from people who are becoming strangers. I am high maintence outside the house,and going any where involves other people .Inside the home I can always knock up a meal and enjoy the crack.

sandras