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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
immer mündlicher und königlicher
Went to meet a friend in the Orangery in Kensington Gardens and made an effort to get there early, on my bicycle. It was a damp, cold...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Note on Florence
Having travelled back through Pisa I wonder whether my strange mood was more to do with Florence than a imbalance of deities. Back in...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
“deixa-me encantar/ com tudo teu e revelar/ o que vai acontecer /nesta noite de esplendor̶
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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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Loving Dubbya
I’ve been watching the American election coverage mainly through blogs and Facebook postings of my friends over there and I’m reminded of...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
Suspended in time, between pole and tropic / When the short day is brightest
I’m loving the winter this year. I was at the Buddhist Monastery at Chithurst, West Sussex, over New Year. It’s the perfect...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 11 min
Ayahuasca
AYAHUASCA Came back a week ago from Brazil where I was filming a documentary about the native Indian plant medicine Ayahuasca . It was...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
PRUDISH PENGUINS
It seeped into my consciousness that “The March of the Penguins” was a must-see movie this year. Someone had mentioned it was a good...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 3 min
É melhor ser alegre que ser triste
It was a strange evening. The Anglo-Brazilian Carnival Christmas Ball in Chelsea. Chelsea. Fulham. They make my heart sink with their...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
If Jan Moir so much as murmurs I will personally find her and slay her.
Kristian was a fine, charming, complex, rather dazzling man. TV is duller and straighter and drearier without him. I was proud to have...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 1 min
An idle moment on the Jurassic Coast
In every walk-round on Escape there’s a half hour where I get to sit down in someone else’s kitchen or front room (wherever I won’t be in...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 0 min
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 2 min
Jerry! Jerry!
JERRY! JERRY! So I feel like I have to say something about “Jerry Springer- The Opera” which aired on BBC2 tonight despite more than...
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Alistair Appleton
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
‘make sure you’re living life at it’s most spherical; in all directions at once.&#
On the train journies up and down England I’ve been reading Candace Pert’s odd book ‘Molecules of Emotion’ – part treatise on the...
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