I got this old jam jar out of the drinks cabinet on New Year’s Eve. In spite of its rather suspect appearance, it is not an improvised specimen jar and it certainly has got nothing to do with jam so…
The last day of the old year and it is cold outside but comfortably warm indoors here in my hometown of Lewes in England. I know that there are parties to go to and people to see and fun to…
Winter 2010 – wolfiewolfgang is fighting fit. THURSDAY, 30 DECEMBER 2010 This blog is two years old this week – the first of two years worth of daily entries began on 28th December 2008 – a very long time ago,…
It was a nice Christmas present hearing that another two of my Fibonacci poems are being published by the Fib review today. I use the word “nice”, of course, in its purer mathematical sense meaning fine or subtle – its…
Back in February 2008, I went on a trip to Fouchou in Southern China with a group of friends from my Lewes Kungfu club, White Crane Fighting Arts (see Links), led by our instructor Neil Johnson, to learn about a type of Kungfu known…
Vince Cable Here in Britain, the Coalition Government of Conservatives and Liberals is under attack. Our formally respectable broadsheet, The Daily Telegraph, has published stories about conversations secretly recorded by their journalists at Members of Parliament’s regular constituency surgeries whilst pretending to…
There is still snow out there as I look through my study window on the shortest day of the year here in Lewes in Southern England feeling that chill in the air. My thoughts have turned to celebration as we…
Some sunshine melted the snow on my kitchen skylight the other day and the molten water shone like diamonds. The same old sun shone through my other windows too….. ..then I got a note telling me that two more of…
I love photography but I am never satisfied with the stuff I take – mostly, I think, because I have absolutely no technical knowledge. So I am lucky that one of my friends, Dave Stacey, is a proper photographer and, for some time now,…