Can the Wolf get back to warrior fitness?
I know that there have been a number of false dawns in my recovery from serious illness and then the slow process of getting back to fitness but now I am deadly serious about it. It is now two weeks…
When everything in the World just isn’t all alright.
Australian floods Brazilian floods American murders Sometimes, optimist as I am, the World seems like a frightening place. No matter how many amusing things I thought of writing today, it was just impossible to forget the terrible events of this…
That big thing in Newhaven Harbour
I made something like this when I was a kid. In fact, with my old Meccano set, most of the stuff I made looked like this. Meccano, in case you don’t know, was a wonderful children’s pocket engineering set where…
Mark Kennedy – quite cool undercover agent.
I know I am supposed to disapprove of ex-policeman Mark Kennedy, aka Mark Stone. It is a bit mean to go undercover with a group of nice, slightly unworldly, idealists, so that you can spy on them and report them…
Red sky in the morning
10/01/2011 Red sky in the morning, Lewes, England. This was the view out of my window yesterday morning – oh no, I thought. we all know what they say about sailors and shepherds first thing in the morning. No, not…
Seaford Sunday – a Sussex winter at the seaside
It was a cold and sunny Sunday here in Sussex yesterday so I went to the small seaside town of Seaford – a short journey from my hometown of Lewes. There was just enough of a tide to add an…
Wisteria tells a winter’s tale to chill you to the bone.
There is a wonderful row of wisteria plants growing in a walled garden in my hometown of Lewes, England. Wisteria is beautiful with late Spring flowers and a perfume to rival anything in the plant kingdom but some people complain…
3 – 2- 1 Sofas – well, I didn’t know what that meant.
In what I thought was an act of self-indulgence, after Christmas, I decided that it was time to buy a sofa that was actually comfortable. Living in a small georgian terraced house in Lewes, England, I had accustomed myself to…
The anguish of the Romantic Artist beautifully expressed in Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) As I work my way through the history of Western classical music (I have written before how I dislike the phrase classical music but enough of that for now), I welcomed in 2011 the other day with…
Sussex welcomes in the New Year
My home town Lewes, here in Sussex, England, lies between the two ranges of downland hills in the distance, on the left of the picture above. I was walking over the Sussex Downs at Firle Beacon over the New Year…