I can still go out on a beautiful Autumn afternoon just after Halloween and try not to think of that classic horror film The Exorcist but usually I fail. It isn’t the revolving head or the flashing crucifixes as much…
After all the obituaries of the great Australian soprano, including my quite personal recollections last week here on this site, I thought i had said my last words on Joan Sutherland but then I came across this clip on Utube…
I am not really being sentimental but my best friend Horace, the garden spider, has weaved his beautiful web right across the doors that lead into my back garden. He has spent a long time making this intricate design and…
It will be two years tomorrow since I suffered a brain haemorrhage in my left frontal lobe and so today, I thought I should mark it in some way. I was told, all that time ago, that I was lucky…
I have written before on this blog site about the sad loss of Ron’s shop which used to sit conveniently across the road from my house here in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It was a melancholy sight in the late…
So it rained last night and I had to go out visiting. I grumbled a bit under my breath but then, iPod turned on, a first outing for my winter coat and my solid and reliably constant umbrella opened, I…
photo Richard Austin Wildlife photographer Richard Austin got his photographs of this giant stag deer into the British newspapers last week showing the true magnificence of what was, until a few days ago, Britain’s largest wild animal, known on Exmoor at…
Friday afternoon in Lewes On Friday night, my fellow residents of Lewes will have noticed the Autumn sunshine and, later on, that astonishingly bright Moon. It felt like a special day somehow and all I needed was the right music…
On the cover of their “tribute” EP to The Beatles, that 80s Californian band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers revisited the famous Zebra Crossing and did adventurous things with their socks. I was never quite sure about why they chose…
It has been quite an interesting week here in Lewes viewing the world from my sick bed as I go through the mildly pleasant recovering process after a bout of wolf-flu. It is cold and sunny out there but I…