Here are my two latest Fibonacci poems, Snapshots and Quitting which were published just before Christmas in the Fib Review by the Musepie Press (see the link in the right hand column for Musepie Press to see the printed versions).
Over the weekend, I spent a moody January afternoon in the little East Sussex harbour of Newhaven which sits only a handful of miles away from my town of Lewes. It is where “our” river, the Ouse, reaches the sea…
Blue Valentine (15) **** Director: Derek Cianfrance Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams R.T. 114 min. Dean (Ryan Gosling) is a young removal man with a heart to give and Cindy is a medical student who knows that love hurts. They…
Baking might be becoming a habit. I was preparing for our occasional neighbourhood Boys’ Pie Night over the weekend and, this time my second attempt at pork pies was a big improvement on the first one where the pastry was a little…
Here are a few random shots of the streets near my house in my home town Lewes, England on a mid-January evening. I was feeling calm and end-of the-day so I tried out the camera on my iPhone. ——————————————————————————————————– STEPHEN…
The King’s Speech (12a) **** Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce R.T. 118 min. The future King George VI has a stammer and, if he is to be up to the job of…
Yesterday was the Feast of Epiphany in the Russian Orthodox calendar and the temperature in Moscow was an invigorating -15 degrees Celsius or 5 degrees Fahrenheit and it is the traditional day to commemorate the Baptism of Christ with a heart-stopping baptism…
Well I am back into kungfu training with a vengeance and, after so many false starts, I hope that I will now be able to return to full fitness and, who knows, even get better. I was looking back over…
As I have said before in these blogs, I am sure that David Cameron is a very nice chap who would like to do his best. Yesterday, yet again, he was telling us that he is feeling “incredibly optimistic” which…
The silent movie above is my sad attempt at bringing you a taste of some of the entertainment I enjoyed this weekend here in Sussex, England. I went to a friend’s birthday party on Saturday night in a tiny village…