So the Eyjafiallajokull volcano is erupting in Iceland sending clouds of dust into the atmosphere over the United Kingdom, grounding all aircraft at British airports and stranding all but the most pioneering of Brits in holiday destinations all over the…
On Friday evening, an illustrious Chinaman came to visit my kung fu club, White Crane Fighting Arts ( www.whitecranefightingarts.com/ -) in Lewes in Sussex in the United Kingdom. Master Chen ShiXing is a Wudang master from the Wudang Mountains in…
I don’t know how many people watched the leaders debate on British television last night but today everyone is talking about it. It was the first time that Britain has screened such a debate, the first of three, where the…
So after fifty years resisting the idea, Britain has finally decided to change the way we vote for our government. No longer will it be about electing a governing party, left or right or something in the middle, now our…
Tonight sees the opening, in London’s West End, of the revived 1967 musical Hair reminding us all, lest we forgot, that we are still stumbling around looking for our slippers in that early dawn of the Age of Aquarius. I…
Scene of the Polish aircrash It must be truly horrific, almost almost of us have had those brief daymares as well as nightmares where we are living through those final moments before a plane crash. So we are all shocked…
Alleluia! as they say when they want to celebrate something wonderful. Alleluia! I haven’t got a hangover – Alleluia! Oh yes, I didn’t tell you did I. I went to a party on Saturday night and had rather a lot…
All over the World people have heard about those White Cliffs of Dover – they have become a symbol for England itself: the little nation standing bravely alone against the threat of foreign invasion. Those cliffs are in the neighbouring…
Gordon Brown launching his election campaign with his adoring supporters. So who knows, maybe the British General Election is going to give us a big surprize. David Cameron chose to launch his campaign all on his own to a selected…
There was something special about that football match last night when a little Argentinian man called Lionel Messi scored four brilliant goals for his team Barcelona against the English side Arsenal. It didn’t matter if you were Spanish, Argentinian or…