Monthly Archives: June 2015

Saving Battersea Park

Posted on June 25, 2015 in the Blog, Misc category

Battersea Park is not only the jewel in the crown of Wandsworth Council which is responsible , on behalf of rate payers, for its management and care , but also one of London’s most historic, and best loved green spaces, south of the River but easily accessible from west and east London, and just across two Bridges, from Chelsea and Kensington and all points north. The park has been part of my conscious life as a writer, journalist, local resident, and London citizen, for over fifty years. I remember as …

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Serrat at The Barbican

Posted on June 14, 2015 in the Blog, Misc category

Serrat, thanks for the reunion It was around 1984 that I went to my first a concert by Joan Manuel Serrat. Amid tears and songs,  I hugged my wife and those around us. At that time we were experiencing the terminal decline of the military regime in Argentina, the junta that had disappeared after about 9,000 people before provoking a grotesque war with Britain in the Falklands – Two bald men fighting over a comb, said the old Borges. The singer-songer writer Serrat  wanted to see the democracy in Latin …

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Serrat en Londres

Posted on June 13, 2015 in the Blog, Misc category

Era alrededor del 1984 que estuve por primera vez en  un concierto de Joan Manuel Serrat entre lágrimas y cantos, acompañando cada palabra y letra que recitaba, abrazado con mi mujer y con los que nos rodeaban. En esa época vivíamos la decadencia terminal del régimen militar en Argentina, ese junta que había hecho desparecer a unos 9,000 para luego provocar una guerra esperpéntica con el Reino Unido en las Islas Malvinas – dos calvos luchando por un peine, decía el viejo Borges. El Serrat de esa época quería ver …

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