Steamy Scenes under the Italian Sun
We have been fed the images, felt the heat and wished we were there – la bella Italia. It is that time of year when I always think of Italy. Those long hot summer days on an Italian beach with…
How Big Is A Wine Glass?
I went away to London for the weekend – the first time I went out of my local area since my brain haemorrhage apart from a crazy morphine fueled trip to Amsterdam a week after leaving hospital. I thought I…
Independence Day with Tom Paine in Lewes, a Small English Town
I went on one of those “mad dogs and Englishmen” walks around town yesterday when the temperature was soaring and the humidity made it seem even hotter than the 30s/90s that the thermometer had reached here in Lewes in South…
Does size matter? Ask Tom Cruise
I went to the bone man the other day – just the latest in my busy diary full of consultants looking at me with a critical eye. I always thought I was perfect until I was suddenly taken ill 8…
China’s Green Dam, Johnny Depp, Garfield the Cat and Michael Jackson – What would Chairman Mao say?
China, oh China! Here we go again. I think the worst job in the World must be trying to run a country of such gigantic proportions, in size and population. Here in England, we might get a few grumpy students…
Just Me and Toad
Well who would believe it! That movable roof at Wimbledon was used because apparently London was having bad weather. It was the Andy Murray match which everyone except me seems to have been watching. Apparently it was very exciting but…
What my brain consultant said
I was writing about my brain haemorrhage on Friday and how I was going to see my consultant neurologist now that it is eight months since that dramatic day which has changed my life. Well, I guess I owe you…
How Do I Feel? – Eight Months After My Brain Haemorrhage
Whilst I was hanging out the washing yesterday, I was thinking about today’s appointment with the consultant neurologist. It is now eight months since my brain haemorrhage and I am hoping that today’s meeting will show that my recovery has…
An English Summer Murder
It is English Summer Day Five and down here in South East England there hasn’t been a break in the weather. Today is hot and blue skied and even yesterday’s breeze has dropped. If you don’t live in the English…
Rustling Grass and Gray’s Elegy
English Summer Day Three and the sun is still shining, the sky is blue, the temperature up and a man is outside my window on a ladder mending the lead flashing on the roof. I am looking beyond him to…