Loving Vermont
It is one of those classic images that we Europeans treasure about America. It sums up the wonder of Autumn or Fall, as the Americans call it with admirable lack of poetry. Well, that is much too harsh, Fall does…
Something strange is happening to me – I am feeling normal.
Sometimes looking at this website which I have been running now since December 2008, I wonder if it is really the wild ramblings of a hypochondriac because so much of it, though less recently, has been to do with illness.…
No one is interested in barefoot snail crushing in Vermont and they aren’t bothered by Dave and Nick either.
I did it again the other day. I trod on a snail when I was out in my garden in bare feet. Actually I don’t care any more. I seldom wear shoes when I am at home and snails are…
David and Nick hit it off together.
Regular readers of this blog will know by know that I have been suffering from an annoying eye condition where at certain ranges I have been seeing double. I am working on building up my muscle strength in the hope…
In Britain, our new political leaders are all nice guys
Goodbye Gordon There is nothing like winning – especially if you are a politician. Here in Britain, David Cameron and Nick Clegg ended up the winners last night after an entertaining day of political sea-saws and list ticking. Gordon Brown…
Don’t Panic! Let the British election come to its natural conclusion.
I don’t know what you are all thinking about us at the moment, all of this site’s overseas readers but I suspect you are not thinking about us at all! Us being the people of the United Kingdom I mean,…
The Eyes Have It
Sometimes it feels like I have a lot of eyes – not just the more normal two. I never have the feeling that they are looking in time with each other. There could be many of them all competing for…
Who were the winners and who were the losers in our General Election?
You have to be tough to be a politician. Look at the three leaders of our main political parties here in Britain. They have been travelling round the country electioneering for weeks now, they have appeared in three long and…
The Oil Industry Is Too Oily By Half
I was listening to an interview with the head of BP, the giant oil company that is struggling to contain the devastating oil leak that is threatening whole swathes of land and sea in the Gulf of Mexico putting Louisiana,…
How crazy can we all get by making a change?
When I got up this morning I wondered if it might be a good idea to have lunch instead of breakfast. It would be a change I thought. Also, maybe a cold shower would make a change from the normal…