Special Royal Wedding packs of Top Trumps available for sale on Paddington Station yesterday
I spent the day yesterday in London. I arrived thinking it was going to be packed with people, but actually it was remarkable how few people there were. I’ve never seen Paddington station so empty. The London underground was positively spacious. Where was everybody? I did see one plastic Union Jack hat, but that was about it. Anyway, here’s a rather entertaining story from the day…. I met Peter Lipman (Chair of Transition Network) and we headed over to Ladbroke Grove for a meeting we were having there. We had about 20 minutes before the meeting, so went round the corner from the meeting venue and sat on a wall to catch up about this and that.
Transition Bath recently posted this film of an excellent talk they hosted from an event called ‘How Can We Grow More Food Locally?’ (which had a great poster – see left). The talk was part of a wider series of ‘Transition Talks’, the next one being called ‘Does money make the world go round?’ which features Mark Boyle (‘the Moneyless Man’) and Molly Scott Cato. Here’s the talk…. very inspiring.
Talking in groups at the 2011 conference at Seale Hayne...
Ah, it’s that time of year again. The apple trees are in blossom, the potatoes are up, and planning is underway for the Transition Network conference. A highlight of many people’s year, this year’s conference will take place in Liverpool between the 8th and 11th of July, and we are very excited about it. The event is now open for booking, the very first booking coming within a couple of minutes of information going online. Do book early… It’s going to be a cracker, and we’d love your input in shaping the event.
Next week is the Tagore Festival, a celebration of the life and work of Rabindranath Tagore, at Dartington Hall, close to Totnes, and on Saturday 7th I am giving a talk, together with Theo Simon of Seize the Day, and I have two tickets to give away! It will be quite an unusual talk, entitled ‘Recipes for Resilience: how doing Transition is like baking a cake’: if you want to come anyway, you can book tickets here, but here is the opportunity for a day out to sunny Dartington to hear the latest about Transition and stories of what different Transition initiatives are up to. So, here we go, fingers on buzzers….
A few weeks ago, photojournalist Ed Thompson came to Totnes to take photos of the town and about different aspects of Transition underway here. His pictures are a quirky and colourful take on the place and on some of the people involved, and you can see a selection of the pictures he took here…
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