Dull days won’t pull me down.
So just look at it! The view from my study window. The prehistoric mound is lush with moisture, drizzly rain acts as a miserable screen to what should be a beautiful English Spring day and a solitary crow is flying…
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£500,000 to meet Prince Andrew? You must be kidding!
Those royal brides! What are they like! Well, I mean Sarah Ferguson of course, the so-called Duchess of York. I don’t mean Diana who is now in Heaven with Mother Theresa, enough has been said about her already or Sophie,…
Whatever Love Is…….
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga It was one of those phrases that still chills me when I think of it. That now infamous interview that Prince Charles gave with the then Lady Diana Spenser on the announcement of their engagement…
Bluebells and Foxes and good news from the hospital
Late May in East Sussex, England, came into its own this weekend with hot weather at last. I had just had good news about my vocal chords too from the throat surgeon – I don’t need an operation as my…
Don’t underestimate wallflowers
It has been a chilly Spring here in England and all those long-awaited bulbs arrived late but many of them flowered together and lasted far longer than usual. The same was true of the tree blossoms….this year my cherry tree…
Goodbye Vermont Yankee and hello Green Mountain windmills
As part of my growing interest in America’s second smallest state, I see in the papers today that Vermont has announced that it is going to start buying some of its electricity from neighbouring New Hampshire’s wind turbines because it…
Those Green Mountain Boys
I have been thinking about Vermont all week wondering why no one who lives in the U.S.A.’s second smallest state ever looks at this website. Vermont is the only American state that has never looked at this daily blog and,…
Loving Vermont
It is one of those classic images that we Europeans treasure about America. It sums up the wonder of Autumn or Fall, as the Americans call it with admirable lack of poetry. Well, that is much too harsh, Fall does…
Something strange is happening to me – I am feeling normal.
Sometimes looking at this website which I have been running now since December 2008, I wonder if it is really the wild ramblings of a hypochondriac because so much of it, though less recently, has been to do with illness.…
No one is interested in barefoot snail crushing in Vermont and they aren’t bothered by Dave and Nick either.
I did it again the other day. I trod on a snail when I was out in my garden in bare feet. Actually I don’t care any more. I seldom wear shoes when I am at home and snails are…