Has your mind ever wandered when you were listening to very serious music about death and transfiguration and, without meaning to, found yourself wishing you were in a French revue club drinking a glass or two of absinthe? I have…
I know that Summer runs well into September and all that but the end of August is still a special moment of transition. It is the end of something: high summer, long days, holiday spirit and langour. It is also…
I ended my brief stay-at-home holiday with a walk up to the top of Chanctonbury Ring in Sussex where you can climb to a height of 783 feet above sea level and where you can see, yes, the sea but…
I spent last weekend with some friends and nearly two hundred Alpacas on a farm in Devon. They are weird creatures, the Alpacas, not my friends…well, come to think of it my friends are quite unusual too, in a good…
Have you ever walked past a field of cattle and felt hungry? Nice piece of steak or a Beef Wellington perhaps? Well I was hungry that day earlier this week when I came across a field full of handsome black…
I have been wandering around in Sussex this week enjoying late August and declaring myself on holiday whilst not really going more than twenty miles away from home. I may not have covered many miles but I have been a…
I have been traveling this week but only in what sounds like a pretty unadventurous “staycation” way as my trendier American friends would say. I live in East Sussex England but I have been exploring my old county of West…
Do you know that feeling when you sit around at home thinking that all your friends are out there doing wild things and having a great time whilst you are just, well, sitting around? I have to admit I have…
I was in the park last week having a kungfu sword pattern lesson and ever since then I have been thinking about how much I enjoy playing with swords. I have always liked them, ever since that first childhood plastic…
We are all freaks, one way or another. I remember, at school, finding out that my legs were too short to ever win a sprinting race but then, a lot later, I also learnt that my physique enabled me to…