It was released to the World in Munich in 1865 but completed in the year that I am studying at the moment 1859. Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, the most talked about and written about of all operas and one which…
It is good to wake up today feeling pretty normal. I have been pacing myself as I try to recover from my brain haemorrhage but knowing that I had a lot of social events around my birthday last week and…
It was a special weekend – my birthday celebration amongst other things with the coming together of friends and family, the people who inhabit that well-worn phrase, “loved ones.” Something floated above everything, a phrase I have used before, my…
Yes, I woke up this morning and I am still alive and well able to handle reaching a “significant” birthday. If there was any chance of feeling miserable about getting older then it was soon dispersed by the great person…
It has been quite a momentous week for me. I have been getting out more as they say and my writer’s life has gone public too – first with my first poetry reading last week and now I hear that…
As our Southern English September begins what I hope will be a sunny farewell, my small town garden with its maybe mad juxtapositions of climbing plants, is enjoying my planned chaos. A bee is so laden with pollen from this…
I woke up this morning but not like the song. I didn’t get myself a gun and I most certainly didn’t have a blue moon in my eye. I was tired. The radio let out easily digestible shreds of news…
I went to Brighton last Friday to see my good friends, the Indie rock band Foxes! doing their last gig before they go off, yes, here is the exciting bit, before they go off on their tour of California. I…
My brain haemorrhage gave me two things that I imposed on an audience last night – a stammer and a new habit – writing poetry. They were very forgiving, the people who had gathered in the upstairs room above my…
“I would like you to open your mouth and stick your tongue out as far as you can. There is nothing to worry about. I am going to hold on to your tongue and place a camera on it to…