Regular readers of this blog will know by know that I have been suffering from an annoying eye condition where at certain ranges I have been seeing double. I am working on building up my muscle strength in the hope…
Goodbye Gordon There is nothing like winning – especially if you are a politician. Here in Britain, David Cameron and Nick Clegg ended up the winners last night after an entertaining day of political sea-saws and list ticking. Gordon Brown…
I don’t know what you are all thinking about us at the moment, all of this site’s overseas readers but I suspect you are not thinking about us at all! Us being the people of the United Kingdom I mean,…
Sometimes it feels like I have a lot of eyes – not just the more normal two. I never have the feeling that they are looking in time with each other. There could be many of them all competing for…
You have to be tough to be a politician. Look at the three leaders of our main political parties here in Britain. They have been travelling round the country electioneering for weeks now, they have appeared in three long and…
I was listening to an interview with the head of BP, the giant oil company that is struggling to contain the devastating oil leak that is threatening whole swathes of land and sea in the Gulf of Mexico putting Louisiana,…
When I got up this morning I wondered if it might be a good idea to have lunch instead of breakfast. It would be a change I thought. Also, maybe a cold shower would make a change from the normal…
One of the great opera productions that I have been lucky enough to see in a life of opera-going was Graham Vick’s award-winning production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger conducted by Bernard Haitink on the night that the old Royal Opera…
It is the May Day bank holiday here in Britain and I was wondering what photograph to put up in recognition of the occasion. I didn’t have to look very far because, as usual, the always inventive owner of the…
Poor old Gordon! Well maybe not. I have to say though that I am still burying my head in my hands remembering a few things that I have said over the years which I wish I could wipe from my…