As I told you yesterday, this week has been all about new beginnings and muddles getting sorted. The big thing yesterday was rationalising my martial arts regime with the help of my long-suffering Kung Fu instructor, Neil Johnson. As I…
It was the start of a new week for all of us but for me I feel a tranche of new beginnings. The sun has begun to rise high enough above the mound at the back of my house to…
I have swallowed a few of those unpalatable things known as Home Truths today. A couple of weeks ago I was feeling really good in the fitness stakes – I had been going to the gym regularly on the new…
So Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, has died at the age of 96. The British press is giving him the kind of respectful obituaries that he deserved and his memory should be honoured by all of…
A few days ago I had another poem accepted for publication. I was obviously really pleased. I have only been sending material off to publishers since last September and this new success makes it seven poems published since then. I…
Ladies and Gentlemen from overseas, here’s a story about British politics which you might find amusing. Especially if you are citizens of that lovely country Belize that borders Mexico and is the only South American nation in the British Commonwealth.…
The last weekend in February arrived and I was determined to do all my February jobs in the appropriate month even though the forecast was for torrential rain on Sunday. So on Saturday, I went out to do my whole…
I had my first proper gig poetry reading last night but luckily I didn’t have to go very far in the rain – just round the corner from my house to the Lewes Arms pub where, upstairs, a marvelously chaotic…
It appears when you listen to politicians and others in conversation that we are all pro-nuclear energy these days. Well it’s so clean isn’t it. No nasty smoke, no digging up the earth or ruining the landscape with those horrid…
So I guess it had to happen….tomorrow night I am doing my first full poetry evening and this morning my old friend the common cold turned up. Thanks common cold. They always go straight to my voice too, colds –…