Now And Then (We Miss You)

“I don’t have great musical or lyrical ability.” This is not a statement you would expect to hear from a former Beatle. However, we can’t even accuse an erstwhile ‘Big Fab’ of false modesty, because the late George Harrison, ‘quiet’ by reputation, (although he could talk for England if needed) was genuinely self-effacing. While no-one…

A Rath Cart for Cambridge

There’s a first time for everything, and the long-standing and leafy city of Cambridge has, in its time, witnessed many firsts. Not least in introducing new ways of transporting people around its historic thoroughfares filled with fascinating architecture and perennially laced with beautiful greenery. How marvellous it was when game-changing modern railway systems reached Cambridge…

We Do Like Bhakti By The Seaside

Just as the catchy old music hall song says: “We do like to be beside the seaside”. It’s an exuberant and melodic statement that still holds true. So what is it about unlimited water spread endlessly beneath boundless skies that never fails to enthral us? Any why has nature’s simple but effective depiction of silvery-blue…

A Matter of Perspective (Just Singing in The Rain)

Many things in life are a matter of perspective. Not least in the UK’s first city, where all aspects of human existence constantly interplay. A resident (or visiting) Londoner’s mission of the day might well be a cutting-edge artistic, culturally historic, or dynamically social one. Realistically, however, there is likely to be a pressing work…

Solstice in The City

Who doesn’t relish light and sunny evenings? We all do, surely, (and the longer the better). Yet, while some associate summer solstice first and foremost with faeries, folklore and mystically inclined folk longing to get out, commune with nature and soak up its magic, others merely see it as the point at which the celestial…

#GetBack To Godhead

“Thank you for still being alive.” These are very singular words of gratitude that not many of us can hope to hear as we go about our daily business (or, indeed, ever). When, however, addressed to Shyamasundar das, one of the UK Hare Krishna movement’s six pioneering initiators, this heartfelt sentiment, voiced by an obviously…

Straight From The Heart(land)

It’s Friday night peak travelling time and, as ever, nothing short of frantic. Anyone who hasn’t, by now, beaten a hasty retreat from Central London in search of calmer horizons via that well-trodden, crazy and clogged-up escape route we ceremoniously call the commuter belt is either stalwartly occupying the capital’s pubs, or determinedly lining its…

Harinam for George (Magical Mystical Tour)

Roll upThat’s an invitationRoll up for the Mystical TourRoll upTo make a reservationRoll up for the Mystical Tour There has never been a bus-trip to Liverpool like this one. Because it’s 25th February 2023, the date on which George Harrison, the ‘Quiet Beatle’, would have turned 80. So on this very special day an (as…

Fab Mystic India Four

It was George Harrison who went on to become firm friends with Hare Krishna movement founder AC Bhaktivedanta Swami and his disciples when they, in turn, brought their brand of Krishna wisdom to the UK.

WALK AGAINST HUNGER

It’s Saturday morning and, at Oxford Street’s most frenzied end, regular weekend shopping fever is all set to rise in its usual frenetic fashion. But any shopper who can manage to peel their eyes off the array of enticing shop-fronts just long enough to glance briefly sideways down a small (but perfectly formed) side-street leading…