Autumn Free
I know that I live in England and I also know what all of my readers in foreign parts think about our obsession with the weather but I still have to say it: Rain! It hasn’t rained for weeks so…
There is always something going on outside if you are bored
What I need is a bit of street entertainment. I have been recovering all week from the tiredness induced by the last two weeks of socializing and celebrating. I was approached recently by an organization acting for a group that…
Odalisque or Obelisk?
You can get into a lot of trouble if you aren’t careful with long words. I have often invited people back to see my Odalisque when I really meant Obelisk. I suspect some of my visitors were highly disappointed when…
Love’s Transfiguraton in Wagner’s Erotic Imagination
It was released to the World in Munich in 1865 but completed in the year that I am studying at the moment 1859. Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, the most talked about and written about of all operas and one which…
Do you know where you keep your cufflinks? Have you had a brain haemorrhage?
It is good to wake up today feeling pretty normal. I have been pacing myself as I try to recover from my brain haemorrhage but knowing that I had a lot of social events around my birthday last week and…
Bud Burst
It was a special weekend – my birthday celebration amongst other things with the coming together of friends and family, the people who inhabit that well-worn phrase, “loved ones.” Something floated above everything, a phrase I have used before, my…
Happy Birthday To Me!
Yes, I woke up this morning and I am still alive and well able to handle reaching a “significant” birthday. If there was any chance of feeling miserable about getting older then it was soon dispersed by the great person…
Kungfu And Massage – Opposite Sides Of The Same Coin
It has been quite a momentous week for me. I have been getting out more as they say and my writer’s life has gone public too – first with my first poetry reading last week and now I hear that…
My Garden Welcomes Autumn And So Do I
As our Southern English September begins what I hope will be a sunny farewell, my small town garden with its maybe mad juxtapositions of climbing plants, is enjoying my planned chaos. A bee is so laden with pollen from this…
Woke Up This Mornin……..
I woke up this morning but not like the song. I didn’t get myself a gun and I most certainly didn’t have a blue moon in my eye. I was tired. The radio let out easily digestible shreds of news…