The healing powers of poetry
I have been in poetry-mode for some time now. It all started a year ago just before my brain haemorrhage. Yes folks this is brain haemorrhage week as far as I am concerned because on the 30th. October it will…
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Is Horace trying to tell me something?
There is a damp patch in the kitchen which calls out to me most days. It is singing, in a mocking tone, something like this: “I’ma gonna cost you money!” It was right of course – money and disruption. I…
Looking demons in the eye
Patient cure thyself. I think that is the right cliche but I often get my cliches in a twist. This sounds mad I know but today I begin the last week in October remembering that a year ago it was…
Singing Lessons Are A Part Of My Cure
I came across one of the miracles of the British National Health Service yesterday. Something I would have missed if I had listened to the well-meaning advice of my local doctor. I wrote in a previous blog how I had…
Wolves Jumping Hurdles
Congratulations to Mr. Jose Luis Rodrigues who has just won the Veolia Environment Wild Life Photographer of the Year 2009 with this inspirational shot of a hunting wolf. Surely it is not only me, a self-confessed wolf, who can enjoy…
In Print
I was in London yesterday, an hour’s train journey away from here, and I had fun meeting a friend for lunch but also just being out and about, drug-free at last and, hopefully, on my way to a full recovery…
Autumn Falls On Lewes
Autumn has decided to arrive in rush here in South East England, well, here in my home town of Lewes in East Sussex any way. There is a slight chill in the air, the skies are blue and it is…
Stretching – not as easy as you’d think
I had a private kungfu lesson this morning and as it was raining we were indoors and my ground floor, with a bit of furniture moving, soon turned into a torture chamber. We began with a little light stretching, Chinese…
Drug-Free!
Forgive me if I talk about illness again today but I am now moving into a kind of endgame as far as my recovery from a brain haemorrhage is concerned. In two weeks, on the anniversary of the day that…
A Great Piano Is Just As Thrilling As A Great Racing Car
I listened to a fantastic recording of Brahms’ monumentally Romantic 1st Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 15, yesterday. I have had to wait until now because my self-inflicted journey through the history of music has only just got me…