My birthday dinner. Lindsay produced a large quantity of vegetarian dishes. I sat between the two large grandsons, Alex and Alastair.
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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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- Lindsay and Francesca, plus Sue at the edge
- Dear little Al (6 ft 4") and his Mum.
- I'm not sure whether having the large bottle in t...
- Sue, Lyulph and Alan.
- Alex had just come back from a holiday in Texas, ...
- My birthday dinner. Lindsay produced a large quan...
- Reaction to PSG letter:
- Email to a colleague, from a friend in Peru:Maybe ...
- War crimes again
- Drop-outs from education - the appalling picture ...
- Monday
- Newsnight on Bahrain's attack on democrat activists
- Right to adequate housing
- Medical
- Kina
- Kuwaiti Bidoon
- On behalf of the Buddhist Prison Chaplains, I was...
- Before the circumambulation. Led by the monks, ev...
- Some of the monks, at the Springhill ceremony
- Yessterday at the Buddha Grove, Springhill Prison...
- Lindsay cutting the tape with Councillor Florence...
- All these medical posts are getting a little borin...
- Following the consultation with Mr R last week, he...
- Saturday
- Saw Dr W, the GP, this morning. He listened to my ...
- This morning I saw Mr R, who noted that my haemogl...
- Bahrain press conference 11.00 Tuesday September 7...
- Maryam al-Khawaja, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
- Pete Weatherby of the Bar Human Rights Committee,...
- Hassan Mushaima, Leader of the Haq movement, speaks
- High Elms picnic September 5
- Ready to leave
- Breakfast, last day
- Arroz de marisco
- With our genial host, Josef de Sousa
- At the Marina Terrace Restaurante
- No 31 bus, to Monte
- At the market
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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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