By kind permission of the Leighton House Museum. They also have a fine portrait by Leighton of his wife May Sartoris..
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Francis Story The Search for the Self
The search for Self is vain, because it is a search for something that does not exist except as a mythical concept which has had to be taken into the structure of language by common assent. If it is used in any other way than as a fictitious convenience - if it is taken as meaning something real and enduring - it cannot be anything but a stumbling-block to the development of right understanding.
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- This is the Barrett's. The colour should be pink, ...
- Gastroscopy
- Chagos Islands - letter to David Triesman
- Adelaide Kemble, by John Hayter
- This pastel of my great-great grandmother Adelaide...
- At the ping-pong table
- I managed to claw one game back from JW today, rec...
- Merve Kavakci
- Lulu Todd and her daughter Sarah this morning
- Operation April 18
- About to go to the theatre
- Work on the back
- Line into back
- Next stop, I'm out for the count
- Just about ready to start cutting
- Where does it start
- Start of the incision
- The MMR scan show where the tumour is, so there's ...
- A bit more room is needed
- How big a hole do they need?
- Digging
- What's that?
- Getting to grips with it
- That presumably is the lymphoma itself
- Finishing touches
- Mr M with a chunk of my right lung
- Opening remarks by Lord Avebury, vice-chair, Parli...
- Ping pong disaster, and weight
- My great grandfather, Henry Evans Gordon, by Leighton
- Fuelling the Middle East conflict
- Ostriches and Alcohol - letter to the Prime Minister
- An unsolved murder?
- With Serhat Tepe today
- No regard for the UN Convention on the Rights of t...
- Balliol College Rugger Eight 1946
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- Abkhazia
- Wikipedia (from which the image is copied) says:
- Execution of Hugh le Despenser, November 26, 1326
- See picture below
- Edmund Crouchback, 2nd son of Henry III and Eleano...
- Frequent Movers
- Omrie Golley
- Asylum (Designated States)
- Lyulph about to start his talk in the Village Hall
- Outside the Downe Village Hall, with Ischtar and J...
- One more from Brittany - the end of Castle Canute
- Some of the 100 decendants of our grandfather Sir ...
- Update
- Lets see what he has to say
- Was the banning of the JKLF from the Azad Kashmir ...
- With Bangladeshi friends at the Dilchad Restaurant...
- Situation in Somalia: letter to the Minister
- At the go-kart track, July 30
- Me and Al
- Dinner at the auberge, Archie and Victoria
- At the auberge July 29
- Boys return from clearing out woodshed next door
- Lindsay, Erquy, July 28
- Erquy harbour, me, Archy, Victoria, Alan, Alastair...
- Victoria, Erquy, July 28
- View from our bit of the beach
- L on the beach July 27
- JW on the beach July 27
- The four cyclists Archie, Alastair, Alan & JW, Jul...
- Trying on hats with Alastair July 26
- Alastair, Lucy, Pollux July 25
- Déjeuner sur la plage July 25: Alan, Lindsay, Vict...
- Victoria July 24
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About Me
- Eric Avebury
- Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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