On a previous blog (22 October 2009) I wrote about the amazing Jumping Wolf photograph that won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 competition. I was inspired and thrilled by this shot of a wild animal in full chase.…
Instead of my weekly kung fu lesson on Monday, I had to settle for a chat over tea and toast with my instructor, Neil, as I was not feeling well enough to risk exercising. Nothing wrong with that as we…
It was a new kind of day on Sunday here in Lewes, Southern England. The snow had gone and the sun was shining. I was feeling as enervated by the false Spring air as the birds who were singing in…
The Road (15) **** Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy PearceDirected by John HillcoatRunning time 111 minutes The unthinkable happens to the World and a few survivors struggle to live in a barren and threatening…
It is showdown time in the fitness stakes here for Wolfgang. Yesterday I had to go for a fitness test with my new therapeutic personal trainer Ricardo (with one “C”). The worst bit wasn’t the investigation into my vital statistics…
We don’t know the full story yet of course but the horrifyingly large numbers of people killed in the Haiti earthquake goes beyond immediate imagining. People predict tens of thousands of deaths in this the poorest country in the Western…
I was thinking about the faces hidden behind various masks in Afghanistan. It is easier to lump people together if we hide their facial features of course so these Taleban men pose for their photo as armed militants their humanity…
The great thaw started over the weekend and I was hypnotised by these slowly melting icicles outside my bedroom window. We English have got fed up with the snow now because, well those of us living in the South anyway,…
DAYBREAKERS (15) ** Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Michael Dorman, Claudia Karvan and Sam Neill Written and Directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig Running Time: 98 minutes It is 2019 and vampires now rule the World but they are…
Now Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) – he was the man! Under-estimated, plotted against, disliked and ridiculed but he just kept going and ended up leaving us some of the very greatest music written in the Nineteenth Century. If only we all…