Author Archives: boggyvisions
Letter from Vertrouwen – Refitting Yacht Naomi
Dear Val, Thank you for your postcard. Mid-January Kent had high winds and was on flood alert so we stayed on our barge to nurse it through the high spring tides. Since then, we’ve had a period of high pressure and below freezing temperatures which seemed an excellent chance to leave Vertrouwen and test out […]
The Noose Tightens
A maternal anger burns tonight as I write. Because the supposed keepers of the peace have beaten my Arthur.
Relocation crisis in the Jungle
Just a few days earlier the Mayor of Calais had announced that a swathe of Jungle had to be cleared of dwellings to make a 100m buffer zone next to the highway. This had been a bitter blow to many volunteers and concerned citizens of Europe who had worked ceaselessly since the autumn to fund and build shelters for the refugees camping among the sand dunes outside the Calais Ferry terminal.
Doggy Doo Doo
My higher power (I call them God) has been speaking to me over the last couple of days through dog shit. I love the way God can use anything at all to reach into my soul and plant peace. I was in turmoil, distraught, under the crushing influence of someone else’s harsh judgement of my […]
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First blog entry Yesterday Roy and I took our first-born to the start of his gap-year. I say first-born not out of any patriarchal significance, but because the advent of our son put his father and me through a thousand new hoops, each one a first for us as parents. From the first push of […]
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Megan in Calais
Boggy Visions 