Sardinia and Crete photos 2020
The path to the summit in Crete mountains.
Crete
Sunset in Sardinia.
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Recent Photos October 2019
View from bedroom window. Rainbow over Oxford.
Rainbow over Annam Brahma, Jamaica, Queens, New York. …
Garden October 2019
There is not too much left in the veg garden, apart from the last of the runner beans, courgettes, and tomatoes, but from lawn and borders, there are still quite a few leaves to make a salad.
Some greens still going.
- Sorrel – a big leafed kind of herb. I thought I pulled it up last year, but it regrew in August, to my surprise. A neighbour gave it. I was pleased it grew back.
- Dandelion leaves
- Tomatoes
- Spinach – a few slug holes
- Lettuce – only one or two plants left, but get a few leaves
- Flowers of Borage
- Swiss Chard
- Rocket
Other photos
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Inspired by 3100 Mile Race 2019
Every year, I follow the Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race from a distance. This year seemed a particularly good edition. I know Nirbhasa (who finished in 2nd place) and so you can relate to the runners even more.
This year the race also received excellent coverage on the BBC. A foreign friend said – look how spiritual Britain is to have an article like that on its main national newsite.
That made me laugh because when you look at the political situation of Britain, spiritual development isn’t the first thing that springs to mind!
Anyway, I wrote a short article here at 3100 Mile Race 2019
Garden August 2019
Courgettes 
This courgette plant is flying – 1 new courgette daily. It takes up half the bed and more.
Border
Coreopsis.
Sunflower
The chair collapsed under my colossal weight and I unceremoniously fell within the chair. It was comedy gold, but can a funny act be funny, if no-one is there to see the joke? I wasn’t laughing! (It is like the Zen koan, if you tell a joke in the forest but no one is there to hear it, was it really a joke?) …
Leeds Peace Plaque
Whilst in Leeds, I visited the Sri Chinmoy Peace Plaque in Park Sqauare to check it was still there and in good shape. …
Garden from roof
Races short and longer
Last night was the last race of the summer races we hold at the Oxford Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile. 87 runners entered the race. 
I have bought a megaphone, you won’t be able to take it away from me now. …
Meditation is no protection from greedy wood pigeons
Yesterday, I was meditating in my outside room when I heard a very heavy bird land on the roof. Immediately my meditation was disturbed and I feared it was a greedy wood-pigeon who was going to start chomping away at my beautiful brassicas just a few feet away. However, I thought I ought to try and be spiritual and remain detached from my vegetable garden.
So I kept meditating but it wasn’t a very good meditation, because I was worrying about the effects of wood pigeons. After 10 minutes I gave up my attempts at meditation and went outside to see my vegetable planters. Two really fat wood pigeons looked very guilty and flew off. In ten minutes they had wreaked havoc.
So I have had to net the brassicas. …
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