Happy Thanksgiving USA
It’s Thanksgiving in the USA today so I thought I’d look through a few of my photographs taken there over the years – they are in no particular order and i’ll leave you to guess the locations. …
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My one-eyed neighbour makes it into one of my newly published Fibonacci poems.
I’m often under scrutiny in my small Lewes urban garden but I’m getting used to it. I live next door to a one-eyed Siamese cat and, without actually being on speaking terms, we have a pleasant enough relationship which I…
I joined David Cameron and his pig for Lewes Bonfire.
The annual Lewes Bonfire celebration was good fun last night – everyone was there, even David Cameron and his beloved pig – sadly they both ended up on the bonfire but I survived the night after an excellent evening that…
Mignon comes to Lewes – where has she been all my life?
Mignon – an opera by Ambroise Thomas. Portrait of Ambroise Thomas (1811 – 1896) in 1834 by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin I know not all of my readers share my enthusiasm for opera but stay with me…
Mozart’s down the road at Glyndebourne again and I’m a happy Lewes man
Mozart’s opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem) at Glyndebourne. As a life-long opera enthusiast, I’m lucky to have an international opera house just down the road from my house here in Lewes, UK and the…
Unexpected exotic passion in my Lewes garden.
I planted a passionflower in my Lewes garden last year and it seems deliriously happy there. The passionflower or Passiflora edulis to its Latin scholar friends, is only just frost resistant so it usually grows in hot countries like…
A new poetry anthology includes one of my poems among the first fruits of Autumn.
I got my copy of a new anthology today, The Four Seasons published by Kind of a Hurricane Press in Florida, USA. I’m happy that they wanted to publish my short poem, Gardening Tips, in this collection of season-themed poetry.…
Seven years ago today I suffered a major brain haemorrhage.
A friend reminded me the other day that the human body completely replaces itself every seven years. For me, that’s a cheery thought because seven years ago today, just as my home town of Lewes was getting ready for Halloween,…
Who says apple pies don’t grow on trees? They do in Lewes.
I harvested the Bramley Seedling cooking apples from the espalier tree in my small Lewes garden recently. After a slice of apple pie, I thought back over the year and was glad to have watched the process that led…
Lewes is looking good as October comes to a close.
I went on my regular walk round town yesterday and even though I’m always taking photographs here in Lewes, UK, I couldn’t resist capturing the late October light as the leaves begin to turn. I didn’t have my…