Hanging up my kungfu uniform
I had breakfast with Neil Johnson, my kungfu instructor (see links for White Crane Fighting Arts) this morning, as has been usual now on a Monday morning for nearly two and a half years. During that time I have gone…
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I have gone back to school with Dylan Thomas
I have gone back to school. Well, not exactly. I have bought myself a book called The Making Of A Poem, A Norton Anthology Of Poetic Forms by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland (publishers W.W.Norton & Company) and I hope…
My Lost Camellia
Here are a couple of new photographs taken with my new Hipstamatic app on my iPhone on a wet spring morning in Lewes, UK. A bit of rain and a small gust of wind brought one of my camellia blooms…
I went out around town with my iphone camera and tried to turn Lewes 2011 into Lewes 1946
I am sorry if you are bored by my latest obsession, but yesterday it was raining here in Lewes, UK and i couldn’t resist going out with my iPhone and having another play with the Hipstamatic app which turns quick…
Just because it is Spring it doesn’t mean that we all have to go weak at the knees.
I was at a poetry reading last night where there was a lot of Spring poems. It was obvious that a number of the people there are thrilled by the joys of Spring and up-lifted by its signs, daffodils, new…
Wolfie’s arty new photos – all thanks to a cool new piece of camera equipment.
A photographer friend, David Stacey (see Links), told me about this complex and arty type of photography where you spend our in a dark room breathing in poisonous chemical fumes and getting body hairs into the liquid by mistake all in the…
The Killing: the best thing on British television for years.
Another great moment in British television drama came to an end over the weekend. For two long, here in Britain, we have waited for a series to grip our imagination with, not just an absorbingly interesting plot but with a…
My small Lewes town garden is telling me to get a grip
It may be only little but my small town garden in Lewes, England, is telling me that there are loads of things to be doing out there. What happened to that February weeding session? Why are there still old pots…
Everything except my left knee wants to go back to Kungfu
I have stopped wearing that support on my left knee and the sprained ligament seems a lot better so I am back with the hope that I get training again. It was a stupid kungfu injury – I was doing…
Elizabeth Taylor – a great and beautiful actress who wore diamonds and got drunk a lot.
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton It is a sad day for everyone who loved Elizabeth Taylor who has died aged 79. It is sad for the rest of us too because she was certainly a fine actress, an extraordinarily beautiful…