Nelahozeves – I didn’t know how to pronounce it then and I still don’t now but finding these old photographs taken one moody November day in 1990 reminded me of a strange and potentially ill-advised trip into Bohemia all those…
All this business of Silvio Berlusconi’s nudist parties and the former Czech prime minister, MirekTopolanek’s capacity for fun has put tomorrow’s elections for the European Parliament into a new light. Mr. Topolanek, who left office last month after a no-confidence…
There must be something about the thought of the former Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek relaxing naked in Silvio Berlusconi’s Sardinian holiday villa because suddenly this site has attracted a host of Czech readers (see yesterday). He is seen here…
I guess we all know that sex sells newspapers that was why I cheekily mentioned everyone’s favourite three-letter word the other day when I wanted to grab people’s attention for a piece about poetry. World news today is dominated, or…
There are a lot of people out there who think that gardening is all about pretty flowers and sitting in a deckchair admiring them. I used to think that a bit when I moved away from a house with a…
People who know me may not realize this but I am alluring, deeply attractive even in a crowd of models and football stars or even tennis players. I can’t help it – it is just there. I think it is…
The quiet world of being a recovering brain haemorrhage victim was livened up somewhat over the last Bank Holiday weekend. Not only was there a house full of people, lively and humourous ones too, but there was also a list…
With the poetic world in uproar yesterday ( all 27 of them I suspect – see yesterday’s blog if you are interested), I turned away from the resigning Professor of Poetry at Oxford University with a shrug and a “silly…
Now if I were to write the word sex here, woops, I have just done it, sorry, you would all read on, probably. On the other hand if I wrote words like Professor, Oxford University, election and, worst of all,…
I have good news for the British people today. There are signs of real hope that our politics is about to be transformed. First of all, for all of you who are lucky enough to be living away from Britain…