Water, water everywhere!
Nearly time for a nice, er……glass of water. Hmmm….delicious. How many sets of kidneys has it been through before it comes out of my tap? Too many for me to want to visualise I think. I believe in sharing to…
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Thinking of T.S.Eliot whilst admiring my Magnolia
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot The Wasteland I have been trying to feel miserable this morning. Maybe it is the weather.…
I discover the wonders and dangers of my new heart rate monitor
I just ran up three flights of stairs and my heart rate is 85 beats per minute. Can’t wait for that cup of black coffee but I am wondering what it will do to my heart. Should I be worrying…
April is looking at May in my garden.
It is overcast this morning but warm and there is a sense of rampant fertility in the air as the English Spring comes to its climax here in Lewes in Sussex. I have a new addition to my garden, the…
Britain has been Clegged
With apologies to my friends in Scotland and Wales, today I am wearing my English hat and celebrating St. George’s Day. I know England is only a part of the British Isles, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the…
Cherry Blssom Time
I planted my small ornamental cherry tree just before I was taken ill with a brain haemorrhage in October 2008. Hospital, a near death experience and quite a lot of pain meant Winter 2008 had its down side but, when…
How sunbathing made me think of Graham Greene
A very good friend of mine sent me an article ( www.williamlanday.com/ -) the other day about how the novelist Graham Greene wrote exactly 500 words every morning and then stopped for the rest of the day even if that…
Basking in the sun under a cloud of dust
So the Eyjafiallajokull volcano is erupting in Iceland sending clouds of dust into the atmosphere over the United Kingdom, grounding all aircraft at British airports and stranding all but the most pioneering of Brits in holiday destinations all over the…
Wudang Master Chen ShiXing comes to Lewes
On Friday evening, an illustrious Chinaman came to visit my kung fu club, White Crane Fighting Arts ( www.whitecranefightingarts.com/ -) in Lewes in Sussex in the United Kingdom. Master Chen ShiXing is a Wudang master from the Wudang Mountains in…
The British Political Leaders gave us a proper debate.
I don’t know how many people watched the leaders debate on British television last night but today everyone is talking about it. It was the first time that Britain has screened such a debate, the first of three, where the…