They used to say that an English summer consisted of two hot sunny days and a thunder storm. This year, in Lewes, UK, we’ve had a lot more hot sunny days that but we’ve had a few thunder storms too.…
Wolfie’s lesson of the week: Make sure you always have your keys with you. Otherwise you will be stranded outside and you will almost inevitably have to wait in the pub until you are rescued. Being rescued can sometimes take…
There’s a welcome mood change in my Lewes, UK, garden when July turns into August. As this hot sunny weather continues, my roses have mostly gone for a little rest and their thrusting stems have been cut back in that…
My son Adam, the elder of the two wolf cubs, came round for dinner on Sunday and we sat and talked about various things in the garden. It seemed no time ago that we were in London’s Trafalgar Square in…
Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and Presidential candidate. I don’t have any illusions about this site’s ability to change the World but I have a message for the people of Zimbabwe: Vote for Morgan Tsvangirai. I don’t want to…
I’ve been summer pruning my roses after this year’s spectacular display in my little Lewes town garden. Sad though it is to see the roses go after their glorious first flush, I’m an enthusiastic pruner who delights in retaining control…
John Kerry, the USA’s effective Secretary of State While we in the UK have been obsessing on the birth of little Prince George and, of course, the hot weather, other news has tended to take a backseat. OK, we like…
New baby born in the exclusive private wing of an NHS hospital, London, UK. Babies born in a tent in a Syrian refugee camp in Kahramanmaras, Southern Turkey.
In case any of you missed the hours of mindless drivel being broadcast today. A baby has been born into the British royal family after a nine month pregnancy and after the mother went into labour. It is a boy…
The great English heatwave continues and my small garden in Lewes, UK, is positively fizzling in the sunshine – this morning those flagstones were actually hot under foot when I was doing my kung-fu patterns. It was like it all weekend too.…