I am an enthusiast for Chinese culture. I admire the many subtleties of thought in Chinese medicine and philosophy and I am doing my best to learn that most inspirational of Chinese martial arts, White Crane Kung Fu. I am…
My bathroom rebuild that has taken on the proportions of one of those epic constructions in World history like the Pyramids, Stone Henge or even the last time I got involved in a bathroom rebuild. My house is not my…
It is a fine sunny day today. Sunshine is doubly welcome as we head towards the shortest day so I looked out of my window for a shot of visual pleasure from my small courtyard garden forgetting that this week…
I went to London for the weekend but I could have been on the Moon. I was going to a wedding and I booked a room in a modern hotel in London’s redeveloped Royal Victoria Docks in the old East…
I was doing some routine tidying up the other day on my computer. You know the kind of thing, clearing logs, getting rid of email spam, making files and other nerdy activities which I had been putting off for months.…
I am off to see a man about a car today and it feels very strange after this year of not being able to drive. As I am waiting to be told that I am no longer officially epileptic after…
When I feel like moaning about having builders in or having to go out to get a prescription from the chemists I should think of that trial going on in Germany this week where an old man called John Demjanjuk…
If I was fantasising about soaking in a luxuriously warm bath on this first frosty day of the winter, I was out of luck because my bath is now out in the garden. It looks strangely poignant lent against the…
As the light faded yesterday afternoon and another wet day drew to its conclusion my mind was left thinking about water. I had to clear the bathroom for the builders who begin installing a new one today. This morning it…
They say it is always darkest before the dawn and earlier on this week I did have a few dark moments. I got the ‘flu, thanks up there, it has rained and rained and rained, I have had a long…