What’s your tipple?
When my neurologist asked me how much I drink, I was amazed. For over three months now I have been alocohol free because the instructions on my packet of anti-seizure drugs told me not to drink. With the self-righteousness of…
Dreams of wealth – a nightmare for the World.
I was looking at my bank statement this morning and, unusually for me, I noticed that there was more money in there than I expected. It is amazing how cheap doing nothing is. I have been “careful” on doctor’s instructions…
Joni Mitchell and the comfort of melancholy
I have a slight cold. Nothing compared to a brain haemorrhage I know but enough to give me that pleasant convalescent feeling which minor ailments can carry with them. As a not very well known cold cure, I have been…
Those early flowers talk of Spring not Recession.
Fifteen months ago I moved from a house in the country with a 1/4 of an acre of garden and with acres of woodlands across the road to explore with my old Springer Spaniel mostly in perfect solitude. I now…
Planet Earth, as seen from my windows.
Looking out of my windows this bright Monday morning, I can see the World about its business. The men have finished cutting down the foliage on that man made hill that sits behind my back yard. It will look like…
Brahms and Liszt
I finished the book that I have been reading this morning. I began it months ago, well before my brain haemorrhage put a temporary hold on such things during November and into December. I had worried about the consequences of…
Some memories of last year’s Dog Boxing in Southern China
I had a webcam call from China this morning from my friends who are doing the trip that I should have gone on if I hadn’t had a brain haemorrhage and fractured my spine. They have been very kind and…
If things can go wrong, do they?
Today I am surrounded by men in hard hats. It is to rub in just how inactive I am these days.I have been told by the neurologist to “take care” – that infamous phrase that has haunted me for three…
A quiet day in a small English town.
Who says that life is boring when you are mostly stuck at home recovering from an illness? In this small Sussex town river overflowed its banks, flooding the little park and the water meadows and making going on the swings…
The African Twilight of the Gods
It is a bright sunny day here in southern England and here are some photographs of the area around where I live to prove it. I am in a bright sunny mood too. Well, my last trip to the hospital…