Thanks America!
I have been thinking about those fine American birds, turkeys, today when many of my American friends will be sitting down to some of them served up on a platter to celebrate Thanksgiving. I am not sure how much the…
There is a full moon and the wolf is happy.
We have had a full moon this week and, well why not just say it, I have loved it. Walking around Lewes, here in the United Kingdom, and looking up at the sky at night, I have felt, well, happy.…
Only naked passengers can guarantee airline security.
There is a lot of fuss in the USA, I see, about those new body scanning machines at airports – we haven’t introduced them yet in Britain. People are objecting that too many rude bits can be seen when you…
November is the month for tulips
If you like growing tulips then November is a bit like Christmas. it is the time when exciting brown boxes arrive with the post with that excellent label: Perishable Plant Material. I still get a thrill out of opening parcels…
Brack Mound in Lewes gets its annual haircut.
Those men with strimmers that I spotted a couple of days ago did return to manage the vegetation on Brack Mound, the principal view from my study window here in Lewes in the UK. It had not been cut since…
Foxes! in the Bush – the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.
It was a wet but exciting night in London on Wednesday. I was on my way to see the English band Foxes! performing at the cavernously big Shepherd’s Bush Empire theatre in London – their biggest gig so far and,…
Thank God I am not in charge of Ireland’s economy.
The Irish piggy bank is empty I have never been any good at money. I am not proud of this but at least I am being honest here. I find numbers difficult as I have written here before and often…
Prince William and Kate Middleton get engaged – let the party begin.
So Prince William Windsor, the second in line to the British throne is going to marry his long-term girlfriend, Kate Middleton, the fun-loving daughter of self-made toy merchandising millionaires. They certainly seem like a happy couple and they are undoubtedly…
Who was that man on Lewes’ Brack Mound?
There were signs of life up on Brack Mound yesterday morning when a man in a hard hat appeared on the summit with a strimmer. Regular readers will know that this ancient man-made fortification and probable burial mound is the…
Poetry talks to everyone in times of trouble
There has been much emotion and pain at this year’s Armistice events – certainly here in Britain and, I suspect elsewhere too. We have British soldiers dying in Afghanistan and very recently they were dying in Iraq too. I don’t…