Facing up to the great unknown
I am off to hospital this morning to have my second MRI brain scan – just the way to bring in the New Year. It has been scheduled two months after my brain haemorrhage and, hopefully, it will show that…
Help! What colour shoes should I wear?
What colour shoes should I wear with a black suit? That was the question worrying some folk recently. As many of them will be fighting their way through the January sales in the hunt for sartorial bargains, it seems an…
Happy New Year – Everyone
I know it is only numbers – the first day of the first month in the new year, 2009 – but that is how we organise things on this planet and we might as well go with it. So Happy…
Coming Out Of Hospital
2008 has ended as quite a tough time for me – I came out of hospital on the 15th. November after 17 days in quite a serious state. The doctors, nurses and all the medical and auxiliary teams were outstandingly…
We don’t need Tony Blair in the Middle East.
So this is the time of year when all good Christians rejoice – or so we are told. Many of them will be warmed in the cockels of their hearts by images of Bethlehem as a gently snow dusted idyll…
Merry Christmas
It is good to be told be happy – sometimes it is too easy to be miserable. At Christmas I am happy that we have a time set aside where we can delight in those we love and, maybe give…
Film reviews
Carnage The horror is in the comedy. The Lovely Bones Peter Jackson reveals his childish imagination. A Single Man Tom Ford proves that there is more to him that Gucci and YSL whilst Colin Firth is simply brilliant. Invictus Nelson…
Photography
I have always enjoyed photography but the advent of the digital camera has turned me into a fanatic. Here are some photographs offered in all humility. If you want to use them please give wolfiewolfgang his credit. Thanks. 05/04/2009 Photographs…
My Health – the diary of my recovery from a major brain haemorrhage
I suffered a major brain haemorrhage in October 2008 and you can follow the story of my recovery. If you want to start at the beginning scroll down to the bottom and work your way back up. Since then it…
Home & Garden
I shall try to share my enthusiasm for my small courtyard garden with you on these pages. There should also be room to show you round my home town of Lewes from time to time. 28/07/2010 Barefoot potato farming Barefoot…