Members’ News and Publications If you have a news item which you would like to appear in the next College Report, please send in your contribution before July 31st to development.of昀椀[email protected] 1963 are the rock paintings by the prehistoric that both our daughters and their families Anjali Ghate writes: I am running tribals tucked away in the caves in the live within 20 miles. I have adjusted to 80 now, walk with a stick, have the high plateau and the caves in the jungle having three granddaughters who tower debilitating hyper eosinophil syndrome The whole area has for the past few above me. Ageing bones and muscles along with other stuff. I thank Somerville years been declared as the Satpura are kept from seizing up at a pilates class enormously for coming out with their National Park. More tigers have and in my garden which is really getting annual report on alumni where I can been introduced, and sightings are too big for me to keep properly under share a glimpse of my life and connect more frequent. manners, but continues to give me with my peers. Well, I am here for another ten days, great pleasure. almost at the end of my trip. The Alison Skilbeck writes: Last August Having led a wonderful life travelling to monsoons have started. They are very I had a very successful run on the 74 countries and 7 continents including heavy and nonstop with loud crackling Edinburgh Fringe with my ‘Alison Antarctica, I couldn't have asked for a thunder and lightning. Time to go back Skilbeck's Uncommon Ground’ playing better life. Travelling across this unique to Delhi. I hear the heat wave is over. seven characters during lockdown. I've planet has been exhilarating and I have My very best wishes and good health played it since in two London venues, The been able to maintain this wonderment to all Somervillians. Old Red Lion and The Old Sorting Office all through my life. Soon after Somerville (not so much of the ‘old’ thank you!); I'll I got married to a civil servant whose 1964 be going to Barnes with my show about parents owned a beautiful tiled roof Sue Griffin (Watson) writes: Despite Shakespeare's older women, 'The Power cottage in the jungle town of Pachmarhi, the looming 80th birthday and the Behind the Crone', in October. I also did a Madhya Pradesh, Central India. various ailments that creep up from short tour of the North East with my play Pachmarhi is situated on a plateau at an time to time, I am very happy that I about Eleanor Roosevelt. My work at elevation of about 3,400 ft, surrounded can still make contributions to our local RADA has continued, and I did a session by Sal forests, where the trees are full of community and maintain social contacts. on Communications Skills with Somerville beautiful song birds. Some of the birds I am now Chair of Oxford University students earlier this year, which was a around our house and in the jungles are Society in Cambridgeshire; we organise delight as ever. I'm now working on a oriental magpie robin, orange headed talks and other events for Oxford alumns two-hander play for my husband Tim thrush, Asian pied hornbill, green barber, who live in Cambs. Fifteen Somervillians Hardy and me for 2025. His, well, our, six jungle fowl. The fun is to identify the are on our list (so far…) and we were grandchildren now range in age from six birds from their bird song. I can sit on grateful to our Principal who allowed up to fourteen, four of them now at ‘big’ my high veranda forever looking out at me to do a little recruiting at a drinks school. We're still in Clapham, near the the Satpura mountains and the range gathering she gave in Cambridge this Common, and hope to remain here. beyond. Our garden is full of mango trees year. I am also a trustee of the Sutton Dr Priscilla Turner writes: I’ve just and some lychee and jack fruit trees. I Charity, founded in the 19th century to (Spring 2024) published my Oxford visit Pachmarhi in the summer every year help those in ‘need, hardship or distress’ doctoral dissertation now clearly printed, when I try and escape from the intense in the parish of Sutton-in-the-Isle (ie in three formats, one for reference heat of Delhi. My family makes it more the Isle of Ely), using income from rents (scholars, libraries), two cheaper for often. Enthusiastic outdoor people, my on the land we own round the village, let Septuagint students:– The Septuagint two sons and grandchildren try and make to allotment holders and local farmers. I Version of Chapters I-XXXIX of the it while we are there. Pachmarhi is wild: recently organised a publicity campaign Book of Ezekiel. Regrettably the original full of gorges, waterfalls, streams and to try to spread the word about our text of this book has never existed in a pools. We have been going for picnics, existence and purpose, and I also help to modern Unicode word-processor, and swimming and treks all our lives. Doing meet applicants to explore ways we can earlier printings were created by scanning day treks to the streams and pools support them. We look like a well-to- a printout from ChiWriter 3.17. That below, swimming, making tea, playing do village in a prosperous area, but for programme had the merit of enabling chess or reading, the family often go on some local residents, it is a struggle to one, before Unicode, to type combination overnight camps. keep head above the turbulent financial text in three alphabets. The current new Being a jungle area there is always talk of waters and our interventions can often printing is a careful reconstruction in sighting a tiger or seeing bears. Suddenly lift a weight of anxiety about growing Microsoft Word converted in Acrobat to in the middle of one’s walk in the forest debt. I am also a member of the Patient the .pdf form that is required by printers. one sees a large Indian bison with her Participation Group for our village GP It involved piles of hard work. There calf, or a herd of wild boar crossing one’s surgery. Rod and I are approaching our is mild repagination, and a handful of path. 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