The primroses that I bored you with the other day are still there in their urns, resplendent as one of England’s most beautiful natural plants in their unexpectedly formal setting. They have been joined by those golden croci planted in…
It is doctors and nurses time for me now. Yesterday I went to the neurological hospital, it used to be called the funny farm in less sensitive times, to see my consultant. Today I go to the bone man, the…
Just a piece of self-indulgence today – so forgive me. In the coldest and frostiest part of the winter when I was feeling pretty ill, I was frustrated that I hadn’t been well enough to plant a new batch of…
I understand the power of dark humour. Well I used to think so until this weekend. The so-called Real IRA claimed responsibility for murdering two British soldiers and wounding two others as well as two pizza deliverymen at the Massereene…
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…