Appreciating the mundane
My wonderful new electrical sockets OK, I know it isn’t pretty but I am excited by the latest addition to my study. Alex the electrician spent the morning putting up this wonderful bank of electrical sockets next to my desk…
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It’s the economy stupid
Here in Britain the election campaign is well on its way even if we haven’t been given the date yet. It is that odd time in the political cycle when our politicians start to talk to us. This is serious…
Wolfgang salutes Wolfgang
There are times when I wonder why we bother at all. You know, after Shakespeare and Joyce and T.S. Eliot, what’s the point! I keep going though with my poetry here in the little room at the top of the…
Sowing, pricking out and potting on
I have been fulfilling my primeval and natural human role this weekend preparing for this year’s harvest – well, hoped for harvest. I have now nearly emptied my propagator and pricked out and potted on all those fragile little seedlings…
Good riddance to the Gang of Three.
I feel mildly disappointed, a bit naive and very disillusioned when I think about British politics these days. I am referring, of course, to the latest scandal to hit our Members of Parliament. Three former cabinet ministers, fervent supporters of…
My Spring garden, at night, in the rain….perfect.
I was walking home from my tai chi class last night feeling tired in the rain when I trod in a puddle and remembered it was the night for putting out the rubbish. I felt irritable, miserable and over-wrought until…
I think of America as I go to the doctor
I am off to see my doctor this morning and it isn’t going to cost me a penny. Two weeks ago I was having the latest in my regular consultations with the very very bright woman who is my consultant…
The Spring Equinox in Kingston, an old Sussex village
I used to dream about the flint buildings and chalk grasslands of Sussex when work took me away for a few years from the county of my youth. I have been back, thankfully, for some time now and, on Sunday,…
White Crane Kung Fu goes to Eastbourne
I got my camera out over the weekend in the interests of martial arts. My kung fu club (White Crane Fighting Arts) asked me to go to Eastbourne where they are doing a demonstration of the finer points of kung…
Spring rain brings out the hippie in me
After a week of uninterrupted sunshine here in South East England, I woke up this morning to a fine shower of constant Spring rain. Grey skies, a hazy damp mist and, yes, OK, rain. Out in the street people are…