Kulaprabha

OK so if you have visited us at all you’ll probably be surprised at the mention of TV and Taraloka in the same phrase. We have had an actual television for a long time and watch DVDs regularly but a couple of months back we obtained a TV licence… Now that is a bit of revolution here. Suddenly we were having conversations about free view boxes and digital aerials. Well some of us were, some of us didn’t know what a free view box was! I’m about to propose that we get a satellite dish and avoid any possibililty of local poor reception.

All this came out of some community days back in January. Locana was facilitating the days for us. (See her NVC training website Life At Work here.) To get us going she asked us to write down anything that would help us engage with the three community days and also anything which would help us engage more with living and working at Taraloka. One of Parami’s things for the latter was being able to watch TV. And some of us agreed that would be very enjoyable. I wasn’t very keen on it because I thought that with eight people in the community we’d end up with someone in the lounge watching something most evenings and it would rather take over. We agreed to try it out for six months and see how it went so Ratnasuri (aged 84) sent off for the free licence she is entitled to, courtesy of the government. And the TV hasn’t taken over in the way I thought it might do. Probably not nearly as much West Wing did when several of us, including me and Parami, were working our way through its seven series!

Then when I came off retreat last weekend I realised that the World Snooker Championships were on BBC2 over the Bank Holiday weekend. It was so enjoyable being able watch bits of the semis and the final. Fortunately for Parami and I’s love for one another, the Football Association and Snooker authorities had very handily scheduled the Women’s FA Cup Final and the snooker final coverage to overlap by only 10 mins. And I didn’t mind not watching the first bit of the snooker to let Parami see the end of the football match. Now there’s generosity for you. Plus it is her aerial we are using at the moment! For the record Arsenal beat Charlton 4-1 and John Higgins beat mark Selby 17-13.

I do know that West Wing was a TV programme and not real …. all the same imagine what the world would be like now if Blair had been dealing with Bartlett …