Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

  PALESTINE BROADCASTING SERVICE Mr. Artur Steinhardt , c/o Rosenthal, 25, Alfasi Road, Rehavia , Jerusalem Department of Post and Telegraphs Palestine Broadcasting Service Telephone No. 4388 No. B.S.2/1467 Queen Melisande's Way Jerusalem 3rd April, 1941 Dear Mr Steinhardt , The American Consulate have received the following telegram from the American Near East Foundation in Athens. "PLEASE EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS PALESTINE BROADCASTING COMPANY EXCELLENT ANALYSIS BULGARIAN SITUATION LAST NIGHT WOULD APPRECIATE SENDING COPY OUR OFFICE NEW YORK ALSO COPY LEGATION FOR US HERE." The Consulate here have asked us, accordingly, to send them two copies of your talk, one to go to Athens and the other to New York. We of course, consider it highly gratifying to know not that that your talk was heard in Athens, but that it was much appreciated, and I am sure you will also feel extremely please with this tribute to your work. We are willing - and indeed anxious -

  My first memories are linked to Debby Levy.  I was three and a half and she was four and we lived in Frankenwald,the Wits soil station. She lived at the bottom of the road and I lived half way up the road in a small brickhouse - smaller than hers. And we used to play together. We played together because our parents were friends. Norman Levy was Debbie Levy's dad and Phillipa was her Mom and Norman and Mom were both about to be sent to jail. When the Sharpville Massacre happened Mom was so infuriated that she phoned the Congress of Democrats, the white arm of the ANC, and said: I want to join. And Norman, aware that the phones were tapped, said nervously,  Alright, alright, but come round and talk, not over the phone . And so Mom and Dad joined the ANC and Norman was the treasurer, I think - he'll set me right if I make a mistake I hope - and Mom became the secretary. Norman went to Jail for many years after the treason trial. I remember Mom was there for Christmas wait

Bonzo, Jack, Connie and family, probably in what is now part of the Pretoria National Botanical Gardens

Grandpa Richard is second from the left on his knees

Photograph taken from Heini's window. Heini was on tour with his theatre company

Picture taken by Else Steinhardt

 The Cygnus and Cephus region, from Astrophotography I was in Leningrad once with a group of Soviet New Agers. One of our group from the UK was an artist. She painted everything from her bed. There were pictures of her feet, of the window, of a view of a tree seen through the window, of the door, with a coat hanging on a hook, a tall lamp switched on. The lampshade was beautiful. The painter was fey. One of the Soviets was arranging a marriage with her in exchange for roubles galore and the use of a flat in Leningrad for a year. Negotiations lasted just one afternoon. It was 1985 and this was the Leningrad underground and it was lumpen, but jumping. The man the painter was about to marry was a Latvian with a smooth face and a blond beard. He described how he had become so knowledgeable: he had studied with shamans in the Far East for a year, he had swum in Lake Baikal, he had climbed the Urals barefoot. He had taken psychotropic drugs. There was so much more mobility in thos

I think you can see a video of the Peugeot Quadrilette in Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and you see it in some of the earliest Tintin books and on the cover of the dodgy  Tintin in Congo .

Punjabi two sided Dhol drum from Gandharva Loka Sir Peter Hall started the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre and the Rose in Kingston - our local Theatre. He was on Desert Island Discs last week and said something which I am sure will now become an established meme. Work brings work. Is this tautological? No. It works. But how about generalising. Does it make sense when we try other examples? Love brings love. Happiness brings happiness. Understanding brings understanding. There is a sense of reciprocity in these statements. Because you love, someone will love you, perhaps. Or because you understand someone then you have more chance of being understood. Or because you are happy then you will cause others to be happy. And yet the relationships between work causes work, love causes love, happiness causes happiness are not the same relationships, they imply a deep knowledge of the world. The kind of knowledge most proverbs imply. This was a subject pragma

  Grandpa is second from the right