I had a private kungfu lesson this morning and as it was raining we were indoors and my ground floor, with a bit of furniture moving, soon turned into a torture chamber. We began with a little light stretching, Chinese…
Forgive me if I talk about illness again today but I am now moving into a kind of endgame as far as my recovery from a brain haemorrhage is concerned. In two weeks, on the anniversary of the day that…
I listened to a fantastic recording of Brahms’ monumentally Romantic 1st Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 15, yesterday. I have had to wait until now because my self-inflicted journey through the history of music has only just got me…
I like to do things quickly. I am always fighting my impatience demon, when it comes to it, I can focus obsessively but there is always a little voice in my ear wailing “get on with it man!” I know…
I was doing the washing earlier and when I hung out my kungfu uniform, I noticed a provocative sight just over the wall in my neighbours garden. I call my neighbours The Taekwondos because the whole family, father, mother, son…
After a week when I withdrew from the World, I am back with a new schedule, a new plan. As you all know by now, I am recovering from a brain haemorrhage – a long and frustrating convalescence which is…
This week has been one of self-imposed idleness when I have been hoping to recoup my energy after the previous fortnight when all my strength evaporated after a string of social events. I have spent nearly a year now recovering…
The great English poet Philip Larkin wrote: “Sexual intercourse was invented in 1963, a bit too late for me.” Well, I have news for him but maybe that is a bit too late for him too as he died in…
Something exciting is happening across the road from me here in Lewes in South East England. Well, let’s be fair loads of exciting things happen here as regular readers to this blog will know. I don’t have all the details…
Another wet day here in South East England with low pressure over the English Channel – I am showing off now – and rain is forecast for the rest of this week which I have taken off so that I…