There was encouraging news today about the Ukraine ceasefire – Like all of us, I’m hoping it will hold and lead to a lasting solution to the appalling escalation of violence that had been growing in East Ukraine all…
When I was a teenager I thought I had all the answers about classical music. It was all quite simple then. Palestrina, Victoria, Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi, J.S.Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Bellini, Chopin, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms, Debussy,…
I know the excitement has been building since I announced last December that my mother was about to finish the winter tea cosy just before her 100th birthday but, many apologies, I seem to have omitted sharing a photograph of…
It seems that I was not alone in enjoying the beautiful February sunshine in Lewes’ Southover Grange Gardens yesterday – and why not, early Springtime impulses are all about couples sitting on park benches with a bottle of wine…
Lewes, UK was looking February pretty yesterday when I went for a walk through the gardens of our local and rather grand 16th Century house, Southover Grange (1572) built, I assume, from stones purloined from nearby Lewes Priory, one of…
Looking at Vladimir Putin’s chilly expression, I felt cold too this morning. I had just been looking at the appalling images coming from the destroyed and corpse-filled Donetsk Airport and despaired of the situation in Ukraine which is running…
My Dr Hu Light Wing Franklin Hi-Tops I know that they’re only a pair of shoes and, yes, I know that there’s a danger in me coming over as one hopelessly vain and superficial person, but I’m…
Wolfie Wolfgang reading last night Last night in Lewes, UK, there was a chill in the air and, or so I’m told, snow on the outskirts, but it was warm enough in the Lewes Arms, my local pub, when…
Lewes Arms, Lewes I’ve been asked to read at a poetry event tonight just round the corner from my house here in Lewes, UK. The splendidly anarchic Lewes Poetry is having its 7th Anniversary celebration upstairs at my…
My little garret writing room is bathed in sunshine this fine January morning here in Lewes, UK. Me and my Bonsai tree aren’t sure if it’s summer of Winter in here and, if it wasn’t that it’s too easy to…