# afro (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover afro. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/08/we-are.html) _2026-08-18 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ Here we are...come along, do. #bungay #mytutuwentawol #comedy #bingo #madamegalina #madamegalinaballetstargalactica ## [(untitled)](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/08/we-are.html) _2026-08-18 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ Here we are...come along, do. #bungay #mytutuwentawol #comedy #bingo #madamegalina #madamegalinaballetstargalactica ## [Chaco impenetrable: territorios, miradas e imaginarios](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/08/chaco-impenetrable-territorios-miradas-e-imaginarios/) _2026-08-17 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ El Chaco guarda una geografía de historias, memorias, lenguas y comunidades. Un territorio que, lejos de agotarse en una única mirada, abre múltiples formas de recorrerlo, imaginarlo y narrarlo. En ese territorio se detiene la nueva propuesta del Museo de Antropología: la presentación de dos libros que, desde la literatura, \[…\] ## [Pachamama: la tierra nos encuentra](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/08/pachamama-la-tierra-nos-encuentra/) _2026-08-15 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ Agosto es tiempo de ofrendas, cuidados, pedidos y agradecimientos. Un momento para detenernos y volver la mirada hacia aquello que nos sostiene: la tierra que nos cobija, los alimentos que nos nutren y los vínculos que hacen posible la vida. Desde esta perspectiva, el Museo de Antropología de la UNC \[…\] ## [I was in the Sunday Times, nicely](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/08/i-was-in-sunday-times-nicely.html) _2026-08-15 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ This happened. The editor thinks it's a book of dog sitter stories waiting to happen. I am scribbling away at that... I first house-sat by accident. I was originally at Haven House, Lembton, as a live-in safety net for Lady Olive Simmonds, a seventy-nine year-old Bostonian with a lilac afro, a Temazepam habit and leg ulcers. Haven House was by the sea. Eighteenth century, elegant, comfortable. But… ## [«El arte interpela a quien observa»](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/08/miradas-antropologia-visual/) _2026-08-14 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ En la xilografía de Agustín Begueri, la memoria de los pueblos originarios del sur patagónico vuelve a aparecer donde la historia quiso borrarla. “Aparición: exhumación, destierro, desterritorialización” visibiliza las violencias que atravesó el pueblo Selk’nam: el despojo territorial, los desplazamientos forzados y el silenciamiento de sus historias. Habitante ancestral de \[…\] ## [Cantar el origen: coplas, memoria y territorio](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/08/cantar-el-origen-coplas-memoria-y-territorio/) _2026-08-10 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ En el marco de la celebración de la Pachamama, el Museo de Antropología invita a participar del taller “Cantar el origen”: una propuesta abierta a todo público para acercarse al universo de la copla, el canto y las tradiciones musicales andinas. Agosto es un tiempo que invita a pensar los \[…\] ## [Hablemos de racismo](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/08/hablemos-de-racismo/) _2026-08-06 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ El jueves 13 de agosto, a las 18 h, el Museo de Antropología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la UNC será sede del conversatorio abierto Hablemos de racismo: una propuesta abierta al público que reunirá a organizaciones sociales, referentes comunitarios, docentes, investigadores y público en general para \[…\] ## [Pieza del Mes: Vasija fragmentada](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/08/pieza-del-mes-vasija-fragmentada/) _2026-08-04 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ Se trata de fragmentos de cerámica que corresponden a una vasija hallada en contextos arqueológicos de la cultura Aguada, en el Valle de Ambato, Catamarca. La pieza tuvo su origen aproximadamente entre los años 500 a 1000 d.C. y fue recuperada en una excavación de 1976. Mientras intentaban reconstruir mediante \[…\] ## [Las lenguas que resisten al silencio](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/07/las-lenguas-que-resisten-al-silencio/) _2026-07-31 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ El jueves 23 de julio, el Museo de Antropología abrió sus puertas a un encuentro con las voces, las memorias y las historias que persisten en las lenguas indígenas de los territorios patagónicos, pampeanos y fueguinos. El conversatorio Susurros de la Patagonia reunió a la escritora, lingüista e investigadora Marisa \[…\] ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8yk46O8Y6O1a) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [El arte de errar](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/07/el-arte-de-errar/) _2026-07-28 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ Hay libros que llegan para ordenar el mundo y otros que, con una delicada obstinación, prefieren desordenarlo un poco. Distancias íntimas. Escuchar, leer, escribir y otras errancias, de Claudia Huergo, pertenece a estos últimos. El 22 de julio de 2026, en el Museo de Antropología de la FFyH, la presentación \[…\] ## [After all that, I kind of missed my natural hair this summer](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/turns-out-the-easiest-holiday-hair) _2026-07-25 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ I missed my hair this summer ## [Presentación del libro Luchas travestis/trans en Argentina](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/07/presentacion-del-libro-luchas-travestis-trans-en-argentina/) _2026-07-24 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ El Área Feminismos, Género y Sexualidades (FemGeS) del Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (CIFFyH) invita a la presentación del libro Luchas travestis/trans en Argentina. Emergencia, constitución y devenir identitario de un sujeto político, de Fidela Azarian. La actividad se realizará el miércoles 29 de julio, de 17 a 20 h, en el \[…\] ## [Agrupémonos todes. Una breve historia de diversidad sexual y lucha de clases](https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/2026/07/agrupemonos-todes-una-breve-historia-de-diversidad-sexual-y-lucha-de-clases/) _2026-07-22 · mminervini · Museo de Antropología_ El próximo viernes 24 de julio a las 17.30 en el Museo de de Antropología se realizará la presentación del libro Agrupémonos todes. Una breve historia de diversidad sexual y lucha de clases, del historiador, docente y militante trotskista del Estado español Jorge Remacha. La actividad es organizada por Pan \[…\] ## [Is beauty’s inclusivity era over? How the industry is failing the Black founders who made it possible](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/is-beautys-inclusivity-era-over-how) _2026-07-11 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ Where's the fanfare of 2020 gone? ## [A curl expert taught me three things that changed the way I style my hair](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/a-curl-expert-taught-me-three-things) _2026-07-04 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ I thought I knew it all ## [This £80 hair dryer brush dries my curly hair in under 30 minutes with zero frizz](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/this-80-hair-dryer-brush-dries-my) _2026-06-27 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ Truly a wonder tool ## [I tested the latest curl creams - these 4 offer bouncy, frizz-free coils that survive a heatwave](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/i-tested-the-latest-curl-creams-these) _2026-06-20 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ Look no further... ## [The real star of Off Campus? The curls](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/the-real-star-of-off-campus-the-curls) _2026-06-13 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ The curls were impossible to ignore ... among other things ## [Another Chance Encounter in the Market Square](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/06/another-chance-encounter-in-market.html) _2026-06-08 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ He walked to the other end of the bench like a cowboy just off a horse. He looked like a hollowed out Richard Harris, wearing tailored jeans, a horizontally striped cotton t-shirt and a Miss Marple gardening hat. ‘May I sit here?’ ‘ Of course.’ He sat, nodding. Then, after a while, ‘What a quaint little town this is.’ ‘ Really? With all the Tudor and the Halls?’ ‘ Oh, granted. But I’ve just come… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/U27sw0mlgKPp) _2026-06-08 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [An Chance Encounter in Saffron Walden Market Square](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/06/an-chance-encounter-in-saffron-walden.html) _2026-06-08 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ Tammy, in her seventies, was waiting in the square while the caretaker fixed her hot water. She agreed to let me take notes. ‘ Well, as I say, I began as a Lucy Clayton girl.’ My friend Al went to Lucy Clayton. She told me, 'I learned deportment. That slight swivel walk. Getting in and out of cars. What blank expression to wear while a man lights your cigarette. How to eat your first mussel with a… ## ['There isn’t a unified place to find London's Afro hair stylists — so I built one'](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/interview-with-row-k-founder-ayo) _2026-06-06 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ In conversation with Ayo, founder of Black hair directory, Row K ## [Who Will Buy "My Tutu Went AWOL!"?](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/05/who-will-buy-my-tutu-went-awol.html) _2026-05-31 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ Here’s my audiobook for you. Will you buy? Click here It’s self-narrated: with songs, adlibs and bloopers as standard. ‘Achingly funny!’ Daily Mail ‘A book unlike any other, of a story unlike any other. Totally mad, very funny and highly recommended.’ \*\*\*\*\* Dr Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt: the Nation’s Favourite Book Guardian Here’s the story… I sang in private formally for Queen… ## [Best crochet hairstyles, from synthetic Afro styles to miracle knots](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/best-crochet-hairstyles-from-synthetic) _2026-05-23 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ EYNTK about your FYP's fave hairstyles ## [Design Essentials landed in Boots - the girlies are already clearing the shelves](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/design-essentials-landed-in-boots) _2026-05-16 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ This is not a drill ## [Fine Afro-textured hair guide: The best products, routines and care tips for growth](https://laurenjgordon.substack.com/p/fine-afro-textured-hair-guide-the) _2026-05-02 · Lauren Gordon · Stranded_ Calling all fine-haired girlies ## [Still Eavesdropping](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/still-eavesdropping.html) _2026-04-28 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'Brian the verger snapped at me after I tried gently to tell him the church was too cold for a first communion. And of course I didn't want to be physically rude back.' 'Look at the world around you. Where do you see glimmers of the divine?' 'You get to his age, and life is a process of getting gradually slower and smellier.' 'I've seen a harelip recently and someone with boss eyes. I thought we'd… ## [Still Eavesdropping](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/still-eavesdropping.html) _2026-04-28 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'Brian the verger snapped at me after I tried gently to tell him the church was too cold for a first communion. And of course I didn't want to be physically rude back.' 'Look at the world around you. Where do you see glimmers of the divine?' 'You get to his age, and life is a process of getting gradually slower and smellier.' 'I've seen a harelip recently and someone with boss eyes. I thought we'd… ## [Even More Stuff I've Overheard](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/even-more-stuff-ive-overheard.html) _2026-04-27 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'I saw the saddest little thing on a date leaf in a library book. "Judy. I’m writing my name because I have nothing and I’m beside myself to own something. Even just till the last date stamped".' 'Why would you let him put ointment on your back ribs if you didn't ask for it? I doubt you’d be even that casual when it came to putting custard on an Eccles Cake.' 'The electrician you sent me says he's… ## [More Stuff I've Overheard](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-stuff-ive-overheard.html) _2026-04-23 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'Famous actors don't need to dress like famous actors. Apart from Simon Callow always seems to.' 'She smells like she hasn't actually had that winter coat out as much as needed.' 'Christopher, you can't possibly know that Sea Salt won't have a man's fragrance.' 'None of us on the till thought it was possible to override the take away drinks machine and do an oat milk hot chocolate. But Little Mary… ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/euMU00jXINV3) _2026-04-23 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [That Time I Tried to be Kind to a Narcissist - my Mother](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/that-time-i-tried-to-be-kind-to.html) _2026-04-18 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ At the station, Eirwen was standing beneath the Suffolk in Bloom prize-winner sign. She had shrunk again. I was waiting in the car. Gerard, picking up her suitcase (she gave him a Don’t expect a tip look) congratulated her on the win. She frowned. He pointed upward at the sign. She saw and said, ‘Oh, are we thinking that’s funny?’ Walking to the car Gerard asked what he should call her? ‘Mrs… ## [From "The Widdle-Wuddle Stuff" - my new book about being a house-sitter.](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/from-widdle-wuddle-stuff-my-new-book.html) _2026-04-16 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ Twice, a week or so before starting a house-sitting stint, I went to spy out the multiple dogs that would be in my care. Between that reccy and the owners going away one of the dogs in each of the households died. I imagined the pitiful horror of (me) having been the one to find the canine corpse; running to fetch someone. Who exactly? The canine police and/or canine coroner? Agonising between… ## [The Universe is Always Listening to us...and Acting on What we Say](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-universe-is-always-listening-to.html) _2026-04-10 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ I have perhaps tended to boast that I have the widest range of fees for my work, because I cater to the widest range of possible employers. For example, I have a £50 Zoom talk booked tonight for My Tutu Went AWOL! the talk and a Madame Galina Ballet Star Galactica cabaret set at a party in February 2027 for £1,500. Perhaps I should have kept quiet about the more lower end fees. But then, thoughts… ## [Monday Eavesdrops](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/monday-eavesdrops.html) _2026-03-30 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'My mother wasn’t prepared and forewarned about being evacuated, they just billeted her on some retired schoolteachers in the New Forest. Whereas, my granddaughter recently was given a forewarning photograph of her new infant school teacher.' 'Real ghosts vanishing always remind me of the shrinking dot of light at the very end of old television.' 'If your operation scar’s likely to be longer than… ## [Monday Eavesdrops](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/monday-eavesdrops.html) _2026-03-30 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'My mother wasn’t prepared and forewarned about being evacuated, they just billeted her on some retired schoolteachers in the New Forest. Whereas, my granddaughter recently was given a forewarning photograph of her new infant school teacher.' 'Real ghosts vanishing always remind me of the shrinking dot of light at the very end of old television.' 'If your operation scar’s likely to be longer than… ## [More Eavesdrops from Saffron Walden](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/more-eavesdrops-from-saffron-walden.html) _2026-03-26 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'If you wear anything you have to be asked about, don't.' 'Lots of big posh cars in the square today, occupants going up to the church. Somebody of self-importance must be dead.' 'He's one of that family that only look ginger from the front.' 'None of us on the till thought it was possible to override the takeaway drinks machine and do an oat milk hot chocolate. But Little Mary went on a mission.… ## [Never Name the Well from which You Will Not Drink - Egyptian Wisdom](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/never-name-well-from-which-you-will-not.html) _2026-03-24 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ On two occasions, a week or so before starting a house-sitting stint, I went to spy out the multiple dogs that would be in my care. Between that reccy and the owners going away, one of the dogs in each of the households died. I imagined the pitiful horror of (me) having been the one to find the canine corpse. Running to fetch someone – who, exactly? The canine police and/or canine coroner?… ## [What I heard on a Bench in Saffron Walden Market Square](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/what-i-heard-on-bench-in-saffron-walden.html) _2026-03-20 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'I began as a Lucy Clayto n girl.' The woman was in her eighties, sharply dressed, hair in a sixties style. ' Deportment. That slight swivel walk. Getting in and out of cars. What blank expression to wear while a man lit your cigarette. How to eat your first mussel with a fork, and all subsequent mussels with the shell of that first one. Riveting and fully essential. You probably can’t believe I… ## [How to Manifest your Dream of Being a Prima Ballerina](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/how-to-manifest-your-dream-of-being.html) _2026-03-17 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true...' On the touring talk circuit with me just now are readings of MR James ghost stories, a biopic of Mata Hari and a surgeon giving a lecture on STDs. With slides. In the coffee break, nobody much fancies the Garibaldi biscuits. Let alone the Jammie Dodgers. Also a talk positing that, from His behaviour in the Old Testament, God is gay,… ## [Mair Does Community Travel](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/mair-does-community-travel.html) _2026-03-16 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ I rang Traveline North Wales to ask if getting to Mechlyn Spa, North Wales, for a seven-thirty curtain-up next Saturday would involve kayak, farmer’s cart or donkey cavalcade. Nerys, helping me, sighed; I heard typing noises, and she gave me the time of a bus from Aberystwyth to Mechlyn Spa leaving at two-fourteen on that following Saturday afternoon. And I didn’t ask for a second opinion as I… ## [The Alexa Hub...ay, there's the rub...](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-alexa-hubay-theres-rub.html) _2026-03-13 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ I'm filling in forms online to do house-sitting. Question. How comfortable are you with using different types of home appliances and technology? In addition to keeping the property safe and secure, home owners would expect you to be able to use electrical appliances as and when required, also any security systems and smart home devices. Would this be an issue for you? Example answer (as given… ## [Put that Rocket up Your Manifestation](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/put-that-rocket-up-your-manifestation.html) _2026-03-08 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ 'You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gone have a dream come true?' Oscar Hammerstein ii 'And the dreams that your dare to dream really do come true.' (My italics.) Yip Harburg Do you dream? Do you dream big? Do you dream detailed ? I would visualise and visualise my character-comedy character, Madame Galina, on tour. London and Blackpool, wearing a fur, dragging a blue… ## [You CAN be Too Careful](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/you-can-be-too-careful.html) _2026-03-05 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ In my local cafe this morning Sarah, who bakes some of the cakes, was trying unsuccessfully to contact Lea, who bakes the others. 'Lea, can you please tell us if your plum cake has nuts in it? A man asking needs to know.' Ten minutes later and Lea was still off-radar. Sarah apologised to the customer and suggested other cakes that wouldn't trigger his nut allergy. He said, 'Oh, I haven't got a nut… ## [Ye Old Post Office - Sham](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/ye-old-post-office-sham.html) _2026-03-03 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ I was doing a gig in a town in North Wales. Mair, a native of the town, had something to say to me about the amenities up the hill. Mair was teeny-tiny and gaunt, sitting by the bus window in the midst of a sou’wester. ‘Don’t be fooled,’ she said. ‘The Old Post Office never were.’ ‘What were it as built, then?’ Sarah asked. She was long and lean with an iridescent blue rinse, sitting high in pink… ## [Being My own Shark](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/being-my-own-shark.html) _2026-03-03 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ Rather than my mother’s pilot fish. I have always challenged Eirwen, my narcissist ne plus ultra mother. And, as we often must when dealing with a narcissist, I have fought to be my own shark rather than that pilot fish mooching along at the shark’s gills. NB — we have Royal Marines Commando, Stacks, to thank for that analogy. Eirwen was an unreasonable, raging, physically violent mother. I read… ## [I was in the Sunday Times](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-was-in-sunday-times.html) _2026-03-02 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ This happened. The editor thinks it's a book of dog sitter stories waiting to happen. I am scribbling away at same... I first house sat by default. I was a live-in safety net at the time for Olive Eynsford, a seventy-nine-year-old Bostonian suffering with alcoholism, leg ulcers and a lilac tinted backcombed afro. I had left full-time singing teaching. It was my dream to move to Deaven. Olive’s… ## [I was in the Sunday Times](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-was-in-sunday-times.html) _2026-03-02 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ This happened. The editor thinks it's a book of dog sitter stories waiting to happen. I am scribbling away at same... I first house sat by default. I was a live-in safety net at the time for Olive Eynsford, a seventy-nine-year-old Bostonian suffering with alcoholism, leg ulcers and a lilac tinted backcombed afro. I had left full-time singing teaching. It was my dream to move to Deaven. Olive’s… ## [On the Church, Good and Bad - Bungay being the Good Bit](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/03/on-church-good-and-bad-bungay-being.html) _2026-03-01 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ I went to church today for St David's Day. I will go again. At Holy Trinity, Bungay, I was welcomed by a verger, known around town as being very caring and community minded. I didn't catch her name, but will be going to a Thursday meeting she holds at my friend Clare's Old Bank Cafe. She mispronounced my name as Justin, and when I told her Iestyn was the Welsh version, she went and fetched the… ## [No Daffodil for St David's Day...and Heaven Forfend a Doily!](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/02/no-daffodil-for-st-davids-dayand-heaven.html) _2026-02-28 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ The idea was we would all have a daffodil of our own nurturing to wear on St David's Day. Miss Postelthwaite presented all Year Ones (seven and eight-year-olds) at Holy Trinity Juniors with a daffodil bulb to overwinter. I overwatered mine. The first morning of spring term my mother rang my headmaster. ‘Iestyn's father is at this very moment walking Iestyn to school via Lower Marsh market to buy a… ## [The Time I Nearly Killed Someone](http://iestynedwards.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-time-i-nearly-killed-someone.html) _2026-02-27 · Iestyn Edwards · Iestyn Edwards is...what?_ For six months in 1997 I lived in Haven House, Suffolk, as a safety-net for Lady Olive Simmonds: a seventy-nine year-old Bostonian suffering severely from alcoholism, leg ulcers and a lilac tinted backcombed afro. Suffering burnout, I had left full-time singing teaching. It was my dream to move to Deaven. Olive’s house in Lembton was only two miles along the coast. When I had met her socially in…