Bonsai, luck and adversity

August 2011

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August 2011

The James Caird displayed during the ‘Antarctic Heroes’ exhibition at Te Papa, 2004. Used with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College, where the James Caird is normally housed. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
A bonsai tree offers lessons in adversity today’s overindulged society would do well to take heed of For my 30th birthday, my sister gave me a pot-plant. Worsley, as I named it, grew in a blue pot, standing about 35cm high, with a profusion of short, twisted limbs. Each branch ended in a flourish of […]
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