Baking might be becoming a habit. I was preparing for our occasional neighbourhood Boys’ Pie Night over the weekend and, this time my second attempt at pork pies was a big improvement on the first one where the pastry was a little…
Here are a few random shots of the streets near my house in my home town Lewes, England on a mid-January evening. I was feeling calm and end-of the-day so I tried out the camera on my iPhone. ——————————————————————————————————– STEPHEN…
The King’s Speech (12a) **** Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce R.T. 118 min. The future King George VI has a stammer and, if he is to be up to the job of…
Yesterday was the Feast of Epiphany in the Russian Orthodox calendar and the temperature in Moscow was an invigorating -15 degrees Celsius or 5 degrees Fahrenheit and it is the traditional day to commemorate the Baptism of Christ with a heart-stopping baptism…
Well I am back into kungfu training with a vengeance and, after so many false starts, I hope that I will now be able to return to full fitness and, who knows, even get better. I was looking back over…
As I have said before in these blogs, I am sure that David Cameron is a very nice chap who would like to do his best. Yesterday, yet again, he was telling us that he is feeling “incredibly optimistic” which…
The silent movie above is my sad attempt at bringing you a taste of some of the entertainment I enjoyed this weekend here in Sussex, England. I went to a friend’s birthday party on Saturday night in a tiny village…
I know that there have been a number of false dawns in my recovery from serious illness and then the slow process of getting back to fitness but now I am deadly serious about it. It is now two weeks…
Australian floods Brazilian floods American murders Sometimes, optimist as I am, the World seems like a frightening place. No matter how many amusing things I thought of writing today, it was just impossible to forget the terrible events of this…
I made something like this when I was a kid. In fact, with my old Meccano set, most of the stuff I made looked like this. Meccano, in case you don’t know, was a wonderful children’s pocket engineering set where…