I am usually on the side of animals, wolves in particular, but there is something about a camel that just doesn’t appeal. They either look aggressive or just just plain dumb and they make a pretty repulsive sight even when…
I awoke this morning physically challenged after my first full evening (two and a half hours) of martial arts training (White Crane Kungfu – see White crane fighting arts in Links in the right hand column)) in over two years.…
I wish I understood economics. When I was a schoolboy I wanted to do A level economic history but my school couldn’t make the timetable fit for anyone doing English, History and Economic History so I did music instead. An…
It is difficult to stop seeing the news as an action movie when big World events are breaking around us. Excited news reporters voices sound like children at Christmas telling us gleefully that history is being made. It is exciting…
Us English believe that we are the only nation that appreciates marmalade but I am sure that we are wrong. Once, on a trip to the States, a friend insisted that I took my own marmalade supply telling me that…
I wore my heart-rate monitor for the first time in a long time, too long, yesterday. I was going back to see my personal trainer, Ricardo, to see if he can help me get back some fitness after a bit of a…
Black Swan (15) **** Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel R.T. 108 min. Brilliant young ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) gets a fairy tale offer to replace the prima donna in a prestigious New York Ballet production…
Here are my two latest Fibonacci poems, Snapshots and Quitting which were published just before Christmas in the Fib Review by the Musepie Press (see the link in the right hand column for Musepie Press to see the printed versions).
Over the weekend, I spent a moody January afternoon in the little East Sussex harbour of Newhaven which sits only a handful of miles away from my town of Lewes. It is where “our” river, the Ouse, reaches the sea…
Blue Valentine (15) **** Director: Derek Cianfrance Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams R.T. 114 min. Dean (Ryan Gosling) is a young removal man with a heart to give and Cindy is a medical student who knows that love hurts. They…