As much as I love talking to you guys and even though I don’t want to come across as superficial or disloyal in any way, my brand new i-Phone 4 has finally arrived after being stuck in the snow all…
Last Saturday night had loomed large in my diary for some time. I am no cook, some have even doubted if I even have a palate but I got into bad company when I arrived here in Lewes some three…
It is not just the unseasonal covering of snow that has made home town Lewes in the UK so beautiful this week. The icicles have a showbiz quality all of their own especially when the clear December sun is in…
I have always loved the edgy charm of the Saki short stories. H.H. Munro, who wrote under the pen name Saki, was masterly at cutting through the pomp and pretentiousness of Edwardian upper middle class English society. He was a brilliant talent…
In Lewes, UK, I opened my front door last night and noticed that something pretty wintery had happened….the snow is now actually thick for southern England in early December. It settled after the cars had gone and only a few…
Day time in Lewes….. …the sun is out up there….. and snow has finally arrived here in Lewes in Sussex, England. It isn’t as spectacular as the covering in other parts of Britain, where the other night we became the…
I came into my room to turn off my computer last night – my wonderful new iMac computer if you want to know – and remembered the last time i turned off my once loved but then despised Microsoft pc.…
I have always been aware of my own stupidity but I also know that I am not the only stupid person living in Britain so I take some comfort there. I found out yesterday that my intelligence was sorely tried…
It is a cold and still day here in Lewes in Sussex England. Blue skies, minimal wispy clouds and a clean, mean light that shows things just as they are as I look out of my windows onto the World. There are…
I go back to see my neurologist, my brain doctor, next Friday. I haven’t seen her for sixth months now about my expected full recovery from the brain haemorrhage I suffered two years ago. The plan is that she will…