Like most of you, I hope, I have never committed a murder. Sometimes I have wished that certain people lived in a different social circle, that they could maybe emigrate to a distant continent or, maybe, even go to prison…
Here in England, we are suffering from that normal mid July gloom. People are saying “where has the sun gone?” and Britain’s favourite topic of conversation, the weather, is back on top of the agenda. It just isn’t like this…
All you folks round the World will probably have heard a British politician or two talking about democracy over the last few years. We are very proud of our Parliamentary system – rightly so I think on the whole –…
I must be feeling better these days because my convalescent life is now much more like Cafe Society than sick bed. For a week now I have been partying, socializing and, in spite of my newly acquired stammer, yes, talking.…
I suppose it is wrong to have fun. I should have been doing something serious and cerebral on Wednesday morning this week but then this friend turned up in an open-top MG, she was smiling, the sun was shining and,…
Today the Tigers came to Lewes – 200 returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. The regiment, The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment marched down the very same High Street that saw the Thomas Paine celebrations only days earlier. Hmm…..Iraq War,…
An old warhorse took a leap into the dark, I hear, with the announcement of the death of the British conductor, Sir Edward Downes and his wife, Anne at the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland. A romantic pact no doubt as…
It is so easy to scoff. It is “nice” living in a nice middle class town with nice middle class people. Scoff as much as you like but my town, Lewes in South-Eastern England does have a lot going for…
A few months ago a friend was watching football on television and I realized that I couldn’t watch moving images. That was not such a tragedy maybe if football was the only thing I was going to miss but I…
I had another bloody session at the doctor’s today – with the phlebotomist in fact, the woman who has drawn more blood out of me than I had in there in the first place. I am used to it by…