I met someone in town yesterday afternoon and he was amazed to see me. We hadn’t met since the bad old days of my early months of recuperation after my brain haemorrhage. He was genuinely surprized that I was looking…
A lip-reader joined the team to tell us what the British Prime Minister, David Cameron was talking about to his wife Sam. I hope this isn’t really hacking: Dave: You know Sam, my sweet, I am really sorry I keep…
Like David Cameron, our hapless British prime minister, there is nothing I can add about the Norwegian atrocities that isn’t what everyone, I hope, thinks, so I suspect none of us feel much better for his vapid announcement that he…
I took this picture of my Bramley’s Seedling apple tree just before I went off on holiday a few weeks ago feeling hopeful that my first attempt at growing an espalier fruit tree would succeed as, in its second year…
Lucien Freud, who has just died, liked to look things straight in the eye. I love the story behind his Self Portrait With Black Eye. He, being an old bruiser at heart, had had a disagreement with a taxi driver…
The flight back home from New Jersey via Reykjavik in Iceland was easy enough if you discount Iceland Express’ unusually uncomfortable seats. I suspect their arrangements for the World Tour airbus for those elderly heavy metal gentlemen known as Iron Maiden were…
Even though I have been lucky enough to have spent most of the last weeks abroad on holiday, first in Sicily and just recently the USA, I have been on a determined bid to get back into my martial arts…
The only other time that I have been to New Jersey, apart from landing at Newark Airport on my way to New York City, was on a filming trip when I crossed the Hudson river to find a derelict building…
I was taken to visit the small and atmospheric town of Lambertville in New Jersey last week by friends who had told me that it was an American equivalent of the small arty town of Lewes in England where I…
I have been on holiday in rural New Jersey, USA where I was staying with friends for a few days before heading off to the small town of Princeton also in New Jersey which is also home to one of…