Elina Born and Stig Rästa “Kõnõtraat”

Elina Born and Stig Rästa are from Estonia. Not sure what the lyrics are about, except its snowing and a telephone number but love their sound

La Vera – Brighton Fusion Jazz Band

Big appologies for terrible video :), background sounds and abrupt end .. but the music was amazing and this short video doesnt do them justice, especially the trumpet player and the person playing an instrument sounding like a balalika. Playing in the market today.

UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency – figures

Below is a link to an article from UNHCR including figures comparing 2013 and 2014. Interestingly the figures quoted are for applications for refuge, not figures for refuge offered. Asylum trends for 2014 “In the 1990s, the Balkan wars created hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers. Many of them found refuge in industrialized countries. […]

There are no winners

Just thinking about what is happening in Calais and feel for the many people who are caught up in it – the people and their children themselves who are fleeing from countrys at war and their familys back home – hoping for them to have an opportunity somewhere safer but reallising the risks of what […]

Heart

sunday summer rain

Ry Cooder – Dark End of the Street

The Painted Brain … interesting website

Ozymandias – M.Joy on The Painted Brain Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold […]

Cherry Frangipan Tart

250g Short Crust Pastry 250g Cherrys (stoned and cut in half) 125g Butter 125g Sugar 3 Eggs 340g Ground Almonds Flaked almonds and whole cherrys for decoration Method Set oven to 200 degrees (little less if Fan oven) Line your flan dish with the pastry and chill for 10 minutes Bake blind in […]

Dogs are welcome too

View from the Mulinopod, early after rain – not far away on the hill was a wind turbine that powered the electricity. Nice warm shower too.

Rose Hill Tavern, Brighton Sussex

The Rose Hill has been a pub since the 1870’s but it was bought by developers who wanted to turn it into luxury flats. “We have until October 2nd to raise the money to buy the pub. Community Asset status only provides protection from development for a year before another planning application can be […]

Up the ladder to the sky

Glamping, Peak District, Mulino Pods and little black cat

Had interesting journey up to the Peak District – went up M40/M6 around Birmingham and back down from Nottingham on the M1. Something ‘cool’ about driving down the M1 to London and sitting in service stations that spanned the whole motorway and watching cars speed underneath – that is until missed the turn off to […]

Qualities of Successful Markets

Wonder if a trader’s hopes for success are not matched to the experience people are looking for in a market? “People love markets for so many reasons, yet in all our surveys asking people why they use markets, the one that always shows up on top is the experience: seeing other people, opportunities for impromptu […]

Mythical Moose

Handmade from Shetland wool – m.joy Like the northern lights, it is something always wanted to see in the wild and have seen crossing the road in Lappland and also a few in a sanctuary being fed bananas, something they like. Also seen Moose in an Alpine Zoo above Innsbruck, that reached by cable car. […]

RSA at Atlow Mill

Two interesting videos

Floyd

made by honey beeswax

Escape to the Wild

Interesting programmes about how some people found their happiness in the wilderness Escape to the Wild – Kevin Mccloud

Deep in thought

Fluf

The day approached and didn’t want to think about it – two years ago, Sunday just gone, the longest day, which it was. Like all family animals, we thought somehow our little Fluf would always be there and think thats what he tried to do – the sweetest soul i have ever known. Our Fluf […]