How many more nuclear accidents before we wake up to the dangers?
Fukushima Chernobyl Where next?
A wet afternoon at the seaside in Seaford, England.
The Sussex seaside town of Seaford may not be the most beautiful place in England but, yesterday, in the rain, it had a seedy charm and a sense of the sea’s power. I suspect i was not the only one…
My Lewes garden couldn’t be further away from the Japanese devastation.
On a calm and sunny spring-like morning here in my small town garden in Lewes, Southern England, the beauty and tranquillity of my early spring flowers are a thought-provoking reminder of the very different situation on the other side of…
wolfiewolfgang has never been so neat and tidy
If any of you have been following me this week, you will know that I have used the excuse of being ill with a sinus infection to clear out my study which had degenerated into a chaos of papers and…
Drama on TV – forget Britain and switch to America and Denmark.
I was reading a magazine interview with the chief executive of Britain’s main commercial channel this morning. Mr Adam Crozier, late of the Post Office and the Football Association, was talking about his ITV multichannel stations: “It’s about clearer positioning,…
wolfiewolfgang knows just what The King’s Speech was about – so here he goes.
Everyone has, by now, seen the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech and, since then, a lot of them ask me about it knowing that I developed a stammer after my brain haemorrhage of just over two years ago. Whatever I…
Prince Andrew – the perfect man in the perfect job.
He is a sad middle-aged man, inclined to fat, with more money than brains, who is attracted to tarty women, is a bit of a golf-bore, wouldn’t say no to a few drinks, has friends in murky places and who…
Spring is flirting with me in my Lewes garden
I have been limping around the house all weekend with my annoyingly injured knee, well Saturday night’s misbehaviour took me out of myself for a while. My frustration with my knee means that everything, all those anticipated rites of Spring, seems…
Can I, dare I, get rid of my books?
Well! I didn’t think I would have got this far but I have emptied some of my bookshelves in the first episode in the great Spring clearance. This is the tip of the proverbial iceberg though because there are other bookshelves on…
Knee Troubles
I am still recovering from a collateral ligament sprain of the left knee which I got doing a really simple move in kungfu really awkwardly. This happened a few weeks ago but has only just stopped hurting all the time…