Whilst Britain was putting on the style over last weekend, I found myself unusually dressed up too. These days, enjoying the luxury of being my own boss, I don’t need to wear suits, ties, or even clothes if I don’t…
In case you missed it, the last four days here in the UK has been a funny old time. The nation has been on holiday for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II who has been on…
We’ve had a Diamond Jubilee once before in this country, in 1897, when old Queen Victoria agreed to become part of a major pro-monarchy marketing push. She had been a bit of an old misery-guts since her husband, Prince Albert…
There are some red roses and some white ones there and the sky is very blue so, maybe even my Lewes garden is looking patriotic this Jubilee weekend. There is pink and yellow too so let’s not get too carried…
All over Britain, those flags are being hoisted – red, white and blue are the new black. The British flag is everywhere, in the streets and the homes of many excited Brits….some of them, I’m told, are even wearing Union…
Yesterday was a powerful mixture of the old and the new when I went on a trip to London to see the revival of the late Anthony Minghella’s sensational production of Puccini’s opera Madam Butterfly. first produced in 2005 and…
We are still living with a hose-pipe ban here in Lewes in southern England so I’m regularly to be found out in my garden with my ancient watering can. Standing there as the water sprinkles onto plants new old and…
I bet that Cornish pasty has a bitter taste Dave. If only you didn’t keep trying to be an ordinary bloke then we wouldn’t be laughing at your latest U-turn, well, maybe. If you are lucky enough not to live…
Brach Mound forms the backdrop to my days here in Lewes, UK. It was part of the Norman castle fortifications and probably Bronze age ones too. It also brings the countryside to me right in the middle of town. It…