Welcome home Adam from Foxes!
My friend and relative, Adam Bell, from the band Foxes! (see Links in the right hand column) is back from a month in India. He had a good time there and a good time last night too when he came…
World Cup Bribes and FIFA corruption, inspired me to bid for the Atlantic Cup
Sepp Blatter You really don’t have to be a football fan to be thrilled by the latest revelations about the bribery and corruption involved when countries get all over-excited about hosting major tournaments at dates decades away into the future.…
How do I stay calm whilst I am wearing a 24 hour blood pressure monitor?
On my last two visits to my doctor, he resumed what last year had been the regular post-brain haemorrhage monitoring of my blood pressure which seems to be going all over the place again these days. Inevitably, even though he…
Caterpillars on trees – the arrival of those Ermine Moth Caterpillars got me all confused.
At first I thought it was a trendy new arts project for the middle of our trendy arty town of Lewes in England. Caterpillars On Trees the notice read but all I could see was caterpillars on hat. I am…
Spring has rushed away in our English heatwave but my Lewes garden has still got plenty to offer.
After the hottest April since records began here in England 350 years ago, our spring has been galloping away and now my tulips have taken on that petrified horror movie look which has its own weird splendour. If my tulips…
What to do when your computer plays up and you want to jump out of the window.
I was going to do a blog today about the changes in my garden since Spring galloped through with indecent haste here in Lewes in the UK but downloading the photographs caused an irritating computer log-jam just as I was…
Acupressure Massage – Healing Hands For The Old Warrior In All Of Us.
I am recovering this morning from the visit of my old friend Ash who spent a couple of hours yesterday sticking his fingers and elbows into painful bits of my body whilst I lay on the ground wearing nothing more…
Visiting ghosts with Henry James and E.F. Benson in Rye
It is possible, like I did at the weekend, to see ghosts in the superlatively well-preserved ancient town of Rye, in East Sussex, England. I was there for a desultory wander between a good lunch helped by an even better…
Osama bin Laden – one man’s death reminds us of all the others who died in his name.
I don’t even have to identify the event but that day in September 2001 still shocks me and on many occasions since then, on a sunny day when the skies are blue, a small part of my mind recalls those…