I notice into today’s newspapers that the Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi has issued an edict which will send dog lovers into a panic – especially if they live in Iran. The Ayatollah has condemned Iranian dog-owners as misguided people…
I have taken the leap into the unknown after many years of using various Microsoft pcs, I have finally gone over to Apple and, yesterday, as the clouds emptied torrential rain onto me, I went off to my local Apple…
I am spending too much time with this man and, nice though he is, I think it is time for me to start forming a new relationship. My friend Milad has been trying to salvage my dying PC computer for…
Well, I sacrificed the bullock and did some pagan rituals with my neighbours, so I am hoping that Sun God Apollo will do his part of the bargain here in southern England. I did some research into naked orgies and…
Hello there, if you can hear me…I am in computer Hell and this is an infernal letter in a bottle saying Help! I hope things will be sorted soon but until that, just think of those days when all you…
Look, I know he looks cute, and it isn’t really his fault, but this bullock might have to pay the price. I have been back in England now for a week after a lot of Italian sunshine and look what…
So there he is, his beady eye alert to any possibility, looking for prey, without sympathy for his victims, ignorant of all other life around him, a hunter, ruthless, heartless and totally irresponsible. No, I don’t mean this magnificent Peregrine…
It is now nearly a week since I returned from my Swiss/Italian holiday which took me to Zurich, Venice and, ultimately, the truly supreme Italian Renaissance city of Florence. It is a difficult place to shake off and my brain…
When I woke up the other weekend, I had forgotten that I was in Venice but the view from my hotel room soon reminded me. On my trip round Switzerland and Italy, I had come to Venice for the weekend…
This was the view from my bedroom window when I awoke at around 5.00 one morning whilst staying in the luxurious appartment of my obsessively hospitable relations Franz and Mathilde in a small town near Zurich in Switzerland. The Zurichsee,…