Motivation arrives outside my window
I have found an effective solution to any motivation problems I may have from working at home. It is so easy to over-work when you are your own boss so I now have a man outside my window who tells…
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Don Carlos – is it my favourite opera?
You don’t have to listen to the clip above but if you do you will know what I mean when I say how lucky I have been in my lifetime of going to the opera. I have heard some of…
Beryl and Charles – Me mixing with the great and good
I was sad to hear the news that the great Australian conductor Charles Mackeras died yesterday. He was, and it is not for me to assess his abilities, one of the greatest conductors of recent times and someone who crossed…
Peter Mandelson spills the beans
I have been reading the serialisation of Peter Mandelson’s memoirs in The Times this week because I love the great soap that is British politics. Peter Mandelson, in case you have never heard of him, was a key figure in…
I have at least one friend in every American State.
A few weeks ago, when I was feeling particularly nerdy and obsessive, I looked up the analysis of this website and found that I had readers in all the American states except one – Vermont. It spurred me into action…
Computers – don’t you love ’em.
There is nothing like one of those Sundays when the sun is shining and you don’t have anything in particular to do but mooch about fiddling with things and thinking tranquil thoughts about nothing very much and, if the truth…
Lewes’ PATINA Procession is the latest carnival to walk under my window
I don’t have to go far to celebrate my home town’s taste for Carnival. We enjoy processions in these parts and, very considerately they always manage to march in front of my house. Yesterday was the annual Patina Parade which…
My life as a double agent in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We have all been well entertained by the new revelations about the Russians spies in America who are about to be sent home in a swap arrangement for American spies in a scene which reminds me of the great espionage…
Let’s Save That Woman Allegedly Caught In Adultery
I am an enthusiast for the work of the Seventeenth Century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) and I had reason to look at one of his greatest works again this morning: Christ and the woman taken in adultery (1653 Musee…
The American TV series Dexter gets me writing again.
I did two on-line poetry readings last night at the end of a seven day period when I had been working through the typical writer’s neurosis about never being able to write again. I went on a two week lying…