What a beautiful initiative and generous of you to gift your photography skills! Food waste is a topic that makes every part of my being angry. Hearing about the Glastonbury waste this week while some of the staff was left unfed drove me mad. There’s so much to be done from so many different angles…
I’m late on catching up on everything this week. Watching the Coldplay set last night. Dazzled by the light show, the LED bracelets the crowd had, just the sheer spectacle. But just with everything I see know, I wonder about the impact, the waste, the consumption. Is there a better way to create awe, to wow us? Nature of course has it in abundance.
Like you, equally dazzled. It makes me question what we’re happy to turn a blind eye to though. I know Coldplay are on record for trying to get their carbon footprint down significantly, but there seems to be a double standard in our outrage about the damage we are doing to our culture/heritage/planet, and money and power (and spectacle!) can mitigate and soften a lot of that outrage. x
That comparison between Stonehenge and Glastonbury so poignant and revealing… we need you to be the objective voice on these events so we don’t see them through the lens of the media!
What a great, thoughtful post as always Matt. I really hope that Friday brings us the change in politics that we all so desperately need. (And that shortbread looks perfect, will try the recipe this week!)
I hope so. We really can’t afford to redecorate the house, but leave the roof leaking, dry rot in the walls and the foundations about to collapse. Make the shortbread Thursday evening, just in case! x
I have never, and never will, vote for the current incumbents. Today a leaflet for one of our local candidates arrived, and it was the only one amongst the pile of others to mention food banks and the crisis in the NHS. His colour was not blue...
Our politics is in such a mess; I just hope that the change that comes will be a far more dynamic change than the one that is currently being telegraphed.
What a beautiful initiative and generous of you to gift your photography skills! Food waste is a topic that makes every part of my being angry. Hearing about the Glastonbury waste this week while some of the staff was left unfed drove me mad. There’s so much to be done from so many different angles…
Thank you Stéphanie... There's always another angle!
I’m late on catching up on everything this week. Watching the Coldplay set last night. Dazzled by the light show, the LED bracelets the crowd had, just the sheer spectacle. But just with everything I see know, I wonder about the impact, the waste, the consumption. Is there a better way to create awe, to wow us? Nature of course has it in abundance.
Like you, equally dazzled. It makes me question what we’re happy to turn a blind eye to though. I know Coldplay are on record for trying to get their carbon footprint down significantly, but there seems to be a double standard in our outrage about the damage we are doing to our culture/heritage/planet, and money and power (and spectacle!) can mitigate and soften a lot of that outrage. x
That comparison between Stonehenge and Glastonbury so poignant and revealing… we need you to be the objective voice on these events so we don’t see them through the lens of the media!
Thanks Jo! I found conflicting hope and anxiety in both events… it’s the orthodoxy that one is good and one is bad that that is so troubling.
What a great, thoughtful post as always Matt. I really hope that Friday brings us the change in politics that we all so desperately need. (And that shortbread looks perfect, will try the recipe this week!)
I hope so. We really can’t afford to redecorate the house, but leave the roof leaking, dry rot in the walls and the foundations about to collapse. Make the shortbread Thursday evening, just in case! x
I have never, and never will, vote for the current incumbents. Today a leaflet for one of our local candidates arrived, and it was the only one amongst the pile of others to mention food banks and the crisis in the NHS. His colour was not blue...
Our politics is in such a mess; I just hope that the change that comes will be a far more dynamic change than the one that is currently being telegraphed.