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Beans….no, not green beans….has beens….or might have beens……no, Java beans, coffee beans from Sumatra….doo-ba-doo-ba-doo. I love coffee, I love tea….and it loves me! I love my super cool Krups coffee grinder too. In fact today, I just can’t get enough…
Ever since I took up Kungfu, I have tried to learn about the body’s pressure points for martial arts it was a question of learning where to strike your opponent but then I went on to discover the benefits of…
Lewes bells are chiming midday and I still haven’t written this blog. I’ve played with my weights ’til my muscles burned…… …I’ve drunk loads of coffee and my head is on fire…. …but I just can’t settle to write this.…
We say: I know that newspapers are, in the end, just newspapers, that journalists are mere human beings and that some of them only just qualify for that categorisation but I still get a kick on those mornings when I…
I went back to the small East Sussex village of Blackboys to say goodbye to the landlords of the Blackboys Inn, my old neighbours, Paul and Jimmie, who ran the local pub when I lived in a cottage just down…
It is time for my second “King’s Speech” test where I plunge myself into a two minute “speech” to camera to see how my brain haemorrhage-induced stammer copes with the situation. Here it it – I think I sound better…
I finished the first draft of my third sestina yesterday. I know, as with the first and second sestinas too, that I shall be doing some obsessive rewriting but it was a moment to mark in the silent days that…
May 2010: George Osborne, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, was adamant that his policy was correct: cut the deficit straight away, begin the cuts immediately, cut government subsidies and shrink the public sector. Manufacturing and the rest of the private…
I suppose people get their kicks in different ways. For some, like these policemen in Bahrain, it is firing bullets at unarmed political protesters. For many others, driving in a fast car is the ultimate high and for many more…