I was talking to a neighbour a few days ago about the practice of yoga, and the goal of the practice being freedom from the activities of the mind and inner contentment.
Wednesday 5th August Whew, what is going on? It is so hot up here. The windows have all been open for the past month and still no let up. I know I shouldn’t complain as…
3 More speed traps in the P-O 3 A further three ‘radars’ are to be installed and activated in the region by the end of 2009, making twenty all together. The first, already set up…
The boars are back in town It may sound a little like a song I once knew but ‘the boars are back in town’ For the past few years, wild boar have got…
In last month’s article I mentioned a famous yoga text called the Yoga Sutra-s of Patanjali. This is the main text we have today to help us answer the question “just what is yoga?”
Thursday 9th July What have we done to deserve this weather? It has done nothing but rain for two weeks up here. The storms have been amazing and now we have fog or low cloud.…
[(Wednesday 8th July 2009)] 2 Le Tour de France – STAGE FIVE Cap D’Agde – Perpignan 2 3 Paul Francis reports. 3 Stage five of Le Tour de France began in Cap D’Agde. I was…
Homage to Kenneth Snodgrass: Exploring time 3 by Ellen Hall 3 “Take your time”, Kenneth Snodgrass’ 1979 painting, figures on the poster for the summer exhibition presented by the Conseil General at the Palais des…
Smelly socks – final story (we hope) [(Alduy, c’est Perpignan, et Perpignan, c’est Alduy. Bravo Monsieur le Maire ! (blogger Huascar: 21/06/2009 à 22h08))] Basil Howitt closes Perpignan’s saga of the smelly socks. Fortunately last…
Estagel art – Clare Gallaway exhibits….. The paintings of locally-based watercolour artist Clare Gallaway are on view (and on sale) throughout the year in the Restaurant of Hotel Le Plein Sud, Estagel. Since coming to…