So well done, and good luck, to Steve Davies, the England cricketer who has just announced that he is homosexual. So far, the cricketing community has reacted in a sensible and supportive way to the first ever practicing professional cricketer…
I was up in London on Friday night for another White Rabbit Theatre Company – www.thewhiterabbit.org.uk – production of Are You Sitting Comfortably? where my short story, Bears About, was performed by the excellent, extrovert and accent fluent Bernadette Russell. It is fantastic…
“It’s been an incredible week, Sam, darling!” David Cameron said at breakfast this morning. “Has it darling?” Sam purred looking up from the newspaper with her customary pout. “Yes, incredible. You know, some of those Middle Eastern chaps are perfectly…
At last! After getting on for three years, the legendary shop, Ron’s, across the road from me in Lewes, has finally been sold and yesterday, the work started to transform it into a new corner shop with an emphasis on…
I know that Britain is a capitalist country where trade is not something to look down on and I also realize that our government’s trade trip to Egypt and the Middle East had been planned for some time when Britain…
I know most people are inspired and over-awed by images of the Universe but I often try not to think about its frightening vastness. Like everyone else though, I am moved by those photographs of our own planet taken from…
Yesterday my mind had scheduled for rose pruning because my climbers are now getting ready for their fourth year here in my small Lewes town garden which I started from scratch, yes, four years ago. I am determined to assert…
When I was in London last week, I went to lunch in the National Gallery’s very civilized restaurant in the Sainsbury’s Wing with its views over Trafalgar Square and the cool, calm ambience that may stem from the fact that…
Yes! Result! The British government has U-turned on its daft decision to sell off our ancient English woodlands, our heritage, to private enterprise. This wasn’t in their manifesto at the election, no body wanted it and, in all honesty, it…
So Betty Garrett died at the weekend aged 91. She was the taxi driving girl, Brunhilde Esterhazy, Frank Sinatra’s relentless girlfriend in one of the best screen musicals that ever came out of Hollywood – On the Town with its…