I know that hi-fi bores are right up there in the league of untouchables, along with Jehovah’s Witnesses and philatelists, stamp collectors to you and me, but there has been a major revolution going on out there in the world…
When I went out into my back garden, or yard as I probably should call it, to do my Da Mo moving meditation exercises, my mind, instead of going to nowhere in particular on its way to enlightenment, concentrated on…
There was something truly poignant about that Mahatma Gandhi sale yesterday in New York. His glasses, a pair of old sandals, his watch and a brass bowl and plate were sold at auction for an extraordinary £1,27 million ($1.8million). Gandhi,…
It must have felt great and also rather frightening to have been Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, yesterday when he addressed to Houses of Congress in Washington D.C. For a moment he was free from the tensions and strains…
There is an old music hall song, a tongue twister, and it goes like this: “All I want is a proper cup of coffee,Made in a proper copper coffee pot.You’ll think I am off my jot,If I say I want…
I have been called obsessive in my life. I am still interested in most of the things that absorbed me in my childhood so I tend to think that I suffer from arrested development. Suffering doesn’t come into it of…
My Kung Fu instructor, Neil, is back from that trip to Fuzhou in Southern China and he came round this morning for our regular weekly two-man teach yourself Mandarin Chinese session. Since my brain damage, I have fallen behind and,…
I went out with my camera yesterday because the sun came out and I just wanted to take a walk with the camera – one of the real pleasure of modern life. Four months after my brain haemorrhage, I am…
It is a grey day here in Sussex, England, on the last day in February. My garden is making some amends with purple and orange croci fighting for space with the first few of the miniature blue iris reticulata. In…
Have you ever lied? You know, someone asks you something and you really don’t want them to know the truth. Did you steal that apple? What apple? Is the first reaction of a guilty man playing for time and trying…