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It’s amazing how much of life has migrated online: I think I took this picture at the VW Museum in Germany

I started tweeting in 2009, as @volansjohn, and find Twitter an endless source of fascination and useful information.

Rewilding Chelsea

25 May 2022

How wonderful that the judges decided that the best garden of the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show was the Rewilding Britain Garden. Even before I knew it had won the top award, it was the one I picked when asked by a Royal Horticultural Society guide for my favourite stand. And how wonderful, too, to be […]

Hazel Henderson, R.I.P.

24 May 2022

I can’t now remember quite when I first met Hazel Henderson, who sadly died on 23 May, though it was certainly some time in the 1980s. Perhaps around The Other Economic Summit (TOES) time? In any event, it was a huge privilege to have her as a friend – and to serve for quite some […]

Hill House Celebration

16 May 2022

Back this morning from a celebration yesterday of the lives of Pat and Tim Elkington, our parents, and Olive Adamson, Pat’s sister-in-law. Fitful weather, but a gloriously memorable day with friends and cousins including Adamsons, Griffins and Millses. Plus friends ranging from Jean Lane opposite, through one-time local gallery owner Martin Riley, to Robin Niblett […]

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