I now have the go ahead from my neurologist to start aerobic training again after over a year of recovery from my brain haemorrhage. In that time I have been practising my kung fu patterns and my 66 move taichi…
Pulling my bedroom curtains this morning I felt a warm cozy glow at the sight of those frosty rooftops and the rose-hued morning sky. It is winter, the view told me, and everything is in order. Looking out of my…
I was asked to write a Haiga today. A what? I asked. It is a Haiku incorporated into its own illustration. As it is a Japanese art form and as the Japanese are highly skilled in calligraphy and the most…
I am an enthusiast for Chinese culture. I admire the many subtleties of thought in Chinese medicine and philosophy and I am doing my best to learn that most inspirational of Chinese martial arts, White Crane Kung Fu. I am…
My bathroom rebuild that has taken on the proportions of one of those epic constructions in World history like the Pyramids, Stone Henge or even the last time I got involved in a bathroom rebuild. My house is not my…
It is a fine sunny day today. Sunshine is doubly welcome as we head towards the shortest day so I looked out of my window for a shot of visual pleasure from my small courtyard garden forgetting that this week…
I went to London for the weekend but I could have been on the Moon. I was going to a wedding and I booked a room in a modern hotel in London’s redeveloped Royal Victoria Docks in the old East…
I was doing some routine tidying up the other day on my computer. You know the kind of thing, clearing logs, getting rid of email spam, making files and other nerdy activities which I had been putting off for months.…
I am off to see a man about a car today and it feels very strange after this year of not being able to drive. As I am waiting to be told that I am no longer officially epileptic after…
When I feel like moaning about having builders in or having to go out to get a prescription from the chemists I should think of that trial going on in Germany this week where an old man called John Demjanjuk…