I have had fun in America. I have partied in San Francisco. I have roller-bladed through Central Park, New York. I have sat drinking bourbon in Montana watching the light fade over the Rocky Mountains. I have wondered at Chicago’s…
I live in a small Sussex town where most people are neither too poor or too rich. We can expect to live peaceful lives here, without interference, no matter what our opinions or beliefs may be. We have pretty buildings…
I had a moment of pleasure mixed with guilt today as I put on a pair of shoes. I had bought these shoes in the week after leaving hospital in November, where I had spent nearly three weeks in pyjamas…
The sun shone again this morning. Elsewhere in Britain snow and gales may be a problem but here, in a small town in South East England the sun is radiant. It is illuminating that piece of hillside that I see…
I have had to lower the blind this morning in the room where I bash away on my computer. On a sunny day in the winter, this doesn’t usually happen until well into the morning but today, the movement of…
When I was at the dentist’s yesterday, I was told that my teeth were fine but my mouth and jaw had swollen up because of a gum infection probably caused by my anti-seizure drugs. I looked like a hamster and…
I have still got toothache and it really hurts. I will be going to the dentist later on today but meanwhile I am dosing myself up with painkillers which, annoyingly I can only use four times in twenty-four hours. I…
It is probably a deep-seated weakness I admit, but there is something about President George W. Bush that is really quite likeable. Maybe it was watching him present Britain’s very own Tony Blair with American’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential…
I once made a flippant remark about the Queen whilst having dinner with the Oscar-winning Hungarian film director, Istvan Szabo in Budapest. Too much name-dropping, ok, I admit it. By “the Queen”, I mean of course Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth…
One of my recent anxieties has been whether I have lost any of my memory since having that brain haemorrhage. I was always really proud of my ability to recall facts, even conversations, in pretty accurate detail. The haemorrhage which…