I must be feeling better these days because my convalescent life is now much more like Cafe Society than sick bed. For a week now I have been partying, socializing and, in spite of my newly acquired stammer, yes, talking.…
I suppose it is wrong to have fun. I should have been doing something serious and cerebral on Wednesday morning this week but then this friend turned up in an open-top MG, she was smiling, the sun was shining and,…
Today the Tigers came to Lewes – 200 returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. The regiment, The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment marched down the very same High Street that saw the Thomas Paine celebrations only days earlier. Hmm…..Iraq War,…
An old warhorse took a leap into the dark, I hear, with the announcement of the death of the British conductor, Sir Edward Downes and his wife, Anne at the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland. A romantic pact no doubt as…
It is so easy to scoff. It is “nice” living in a nice middle class town with nice middle class people. Scoff as much as you like but my town, Lewes in South-Eastern England does have a lot going for…
A few months ago a friend was watching football on television and I realized that I couldn’t watch moving images. That was not such a tragedy maybe if football was the only thing I was going to miss but I…
I had another bloody session at the doctor’s today – with the phlebotomist in fact, the woman who has drawn more blood out of me than I had in there in the first place. I am used to it by…
We have been fed the images, felt the heat and wished we were there – la bella Italia. It is that time of year when I always think of Italy. Those long hot summer days on an Italian beach with…
I went away to London for the weekend – the first time I went out of my local area since my brain haemorrhage apart from a crazy morphine fueled trip to Amsterdam a week after leaving hospital. I thought I…
I went on one of those “mad dogs and Englishmen” walks around town yesterday when the temperature was soaring and the humidity made it seem even hotter than the 30s/90s that the thermometer had reached here in Lewes in South…