Oscar Pistorius Now don’t get me wrong, I loved last summer’s Olympic Games and the Paralympics too and I definitely went all teary eyed over the Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. All that gave even cynical old me a touch of feel-good…
Today is all about poetry. My latest poem, Hummingbird Feeder is published by Every Day Poets, http://www.everydaypoets.com/ that great and enterprising on-line poetry journal that publishes a new poem every day of the year. This is my second poem they…
Max Emanuel Cencic I’ve been heads down writing this week and enjoying it. Sometimes I do get computer fatigue though and wonder what to do to revive my spirits. Often music is the answer but at the moment I’m involved…
On Sunday, I finally got round to getting out in my garden to do the big sort out for the Spring. Weeded, trimmed and pruned, my small town garden here in Lewes still took a full day of digging, cutting…
I was in London on Saturday for a cultural binge that took me to both sides of the River Thames. If I have time I always like to walk from Victoria Station to Westminster and then I really know that…
There’s a lot of London visiting going on in my life at the moment. Today there’s a trip to spend some time with the young Picasso and then a date with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in its centenary year…
Here here I am testing my mobile blogging app. If it works I will blog like this tomorrow.
Yesterday was St. Valentine’s Day and I was in the mood for Brahms. The piece on my 1878 ‘turntable,’ my journey through the history of classical music, is his first violin sonata, known as The Raindrop after one of his…
Le baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville by Robert Doisneau (1950) Well, don’t blame me for being soppy, it’s St Valentine’s Day and I’d much rather celebrate it with some great art than all those lurid reds and pinks, heart-shaped balloons…
Well I did it! Today is the beginning of Lent – Ash Wednesday – and even though I don’t follow any particular religion or philosophy (I’m not clever enough to understand most of that stuff), I grew up in England…