Devon Alpacas Are Big Cuddly Toys
I spent last weekend with some friends and nearly two hundred Alpacas on a farm in Devon. They are weird creatures, the Alpacas, not my friends…well, come to think of it my friends are quite unusual too, in a good…
wolf01
Me And Bullock 200842
Have you ever walked past a field of cattle and felt hungry? Nice piece of steak or a Beef Wellington perhaps? Well I was hungry that day earlier this week when I came across a field full of handsome black…
Rediscovering That Childhood World Of Adders and Lizards
I have been wandering around in Sussex this week enjoying late August and declaring myself on holiday whilst not really going more than twenty miles away from home. I may not have covered many miles but I have been a…
Tootling Around In West Sussex
I have been traveling this week but only in what sounds like a pretty unadventurous “staycation” way as my trendier American friends would say. I live in East Sussex England but I have been exploring my old county of West…
Steve On The Plinth
Do you know that feeling when you sit around at home thinking that all your friends are out there doing wild things and having a great time whilst you are just, well, sitting around? I have to admit I have…
Samurai Bach And My Chinese Straight Sword
I was in the park last week having a kungfu sword pattern lesson and ever since then I have been thinking about how much I enjoy playing with swords. I have always liked them, ever since that first childhood plastic…
We Are All Freaks
We are all freaks, one way or another. I remember, at school, finding out that my legs were too short to ever win a sprinting race but then, a lot later, I also learnt that my physique enabled me to…
Desert Island Dreams Of Manhattan And London
There is a radio programme in the UK called Desert Island Discs where a “castaway” has to choose 8 recordings, a book and a luxury to make life bearable on that mythical desert island. I have always been obsessed by…
Who Would Be A Politician?
I noticed in yesterday’s newspaper that China has announced the death at the age of 93, of Zhuo Lin, the widow of Deng Xiaoping who was Mr. Powerful in China from 1977 until sometime shortly before his death in 1997.…
Politics isn’t as easy as we think – sadly
I live in the kind of town where it is so easy to put the World to rights. It is a beautiful place populated by well-meaning liberal intellectuals for the most – a mix of old hippies, public service employees…