Last Wednesday the writer/publisher Adele Ward tagged me in an on-line blogging chain called The Next Big Thing. The idea is that when tagged the writer has to answer ten questions about his/her latest book and then go on to…
I’ve been looking at vintage advertising posters recently and was glad to see that American soldiers weren’t just fighting during World War II or not according to these extraordinarily, well, extraordinary pictures advertising Cannon Towels in 1944. The idea was to persuade those…
I was at a dinner party the other night where there was a secret cigarette smoker. It gave the evening, otherwise fastidiously politically correct, a frisson that only an ex-smoker can appreciate. It made me nostalgic for the old days…
I’m happy to see December this year – blue skies, a touch of frost and my home town of Lewes feels just fine. The frosty roof on my little shed goes very well with the flint wall and the pyracantha…
I know I don’t work down the mines and that I’m a lucky guy who manages to spend most of his time writing in the beautiful little Sussex town of Lewes but it has still been an oddly exhausting week.…
Now don’t get me wrong, OK? I’ve got nothing against the adventurously avant-garde, Japanese Beatle widow, Yoko Ono. I know many adoring Beatlemania fans try to get us to hate her but all that fails with me. I met her…
Toad of Toad Hall (original illustration by E.H.Shepard) In yesterday’s blog I wrote about my recent visit to the doctor and how I may just have to live with the mildly epileptic symptoms that are left four years after my…
I used to like the art of Bridget Riley – she and it were the epitome of Op Art a catchy title for Optical Art – an art form that painted optical illusions. I remember a “trip” to a Riley…
The Rolling Stones After all this time, 50 incredible years, Wolfie still loves you guys! Just don’t ever stop, OK, just show us all how to age disgracefully. Never fade to black. The Rolling Stones
Saturday’s rain has been replaced by some of that remembered blue now that Sunday has dawned.