I know it looked lovely with that profusion of flowers from the clematis and passionflower but, it had just got too much so this weekend I had to do the dirty deed….. …..I was out their with my secateurs and…
Here are some more of my photographs in no particular order – I am putting up a selection of 40 every weekend in August: Horace, the garden spider River Ouse, Lewes Lewes flood plain Daffodils Rainy garden on a Spring…
I have always thought that lifeguards were brave people but surely none was as brave as New York’s veteran Long Island lifeguard who, at the age of 61, is suing his employers for age discrimination because they, allegedly, insist that…
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) When, if, people think of the composer Brahms, they remember the man with the big bushy beard. He looks jovial enough here but maybe those eyes are a mismatch for Santa Claus – they are much too…
Rick Perry, American Republican Presidential candidate Hell no! Could he really rally the nation with that salute? Just a note, Rick, watch the body language, OK.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Vatican is about to put on show a small document written in 1770. Not another piece of bigotry, you may wonder with a yawn. Well, no actually…or yes and no, at least. The document in question…
It looks colourful and luxurious enough from up here in my study but that garden is getting out of hand. I have a small town garden in Lewes, England, that I have built from scratch in the last four years.…
Here’s another pile of 40 of my photographs – a part of my general sort out. Damsel Fly Back From Afghanistan Venetian Gondoliers The New Forest Dahlias Bexhill, Sussex Young Bullock Rain Lewes Bonfire 2009 Brack Mound, Lewes London Docklands…
I went to lunch in the small Sussex seaside town of Worthing at the weekend – vegetable soup, haddock and trifle with a rather good Chilean white wine, if you must know. It is always a pleasure to see the…
Tariq Jahan It was moving and salutary that here in England after four days of civil unrest and chaos, that healing words came not from our politicians or our policemen but from the bereaved father of one of the young…