It will be two years tomorrow since I suffered a brain haemorrhage in my left frontal lobe and so today, I thought I should mark it in some way. I was told, all that time ago, that I was lucky…
I have written before on this blog site about the sad loss of Ron’s shop which used to sit conveniently across the road from my house here in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It was a melancholy sight in the late…
So it rained last night and I had to go out visiting. I grumbled a bit under my breath but then, iPod turned on, a first outing for my winter coat and my solid and reliably constant umbrella opened, I…
photo Richard Austin Wildlife photographer Richard Austin got his photographs of this giant stag deer into the British newspapers last week showing the true magnificence of what was, until a few days ago, Britain’s largest wild animal, known on Exmoor at…
Friday afternoon in Lewes On Friday night, my fellow residents of Lewes will have noticed the Autumn sunshine and, later on, that astonishingly bright Moon. It felt like a special day somehow and all I needed was the right music…
On the cover of their “tribute” EP to The Beatles, that 80s Californian band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers revisited the famous Zebra Crossing and did adventurous things with their socks. I was never quite sure about why they chose…
It has been quite an interesting week here in Lewes viewing the world from my sick bed as I go through the mildly pleasant recovering process after a bout of wolf-flu. It is cold and sunny out there but I…
The temperature dropped dramatically here in Lewes, in southern England last night and we even had a ground frost. It was too cold for a flu-infected wolf to venture outside but all was well because it was the perfect excuse…
When I am getting a cold, there is a time in the early days of the infection when I think I am in need of a psychiatrist. It isn’t the snuffles or the cough or even that light fever, no,…
Mother and Son Twin Brothers It is all kicking off in Lewes today, you might not realize it if you look outside, no, not much going on out there it seems. Just wait for six o’clock tonight though, the Lewes Bonfire processions…