Britain’s Royal Mail, beleaguered, struggling, under competition but incompetent and old-fashioned at management level patronising its customers with shoddy marketing and terrible telecommunications. We deserve more for our mail and our postmen and postwomen, almost always excellent in my opinion,…
Sometimes days are just like that, not much to say, not much happens. I feel sorry for the news media on slow news days and right now, I can’t think of much to say either. It’s not raining out there,…
There is absolutely no other reason for me publishing this picture other than amazement. Sometimes a photograph tells us just how much the World has changed in the last fifty or so years. OK, she wants bananas, I can understand…
I have renamed Caffè Americano for the American election period. In several restaurants around Lewes and Brighton I have asked them to do the same. So, please everyone, until American election night, let’s all call Caffè Americano, Caffè Obama. You…
Tonight, I’ll be raising the curtain on the first night of the new monthly poetry event in my home town of Lewes, UK. We are meeting in the very pleasant Pleasant Stores for what is, I hope, a very democratic…
I had always resisted the idea of playing Pokemon – well, it’s for kids, it’s addictive, it’s a waste of time, it’s silly, I’d be crap at it, you get the idea. I know it has a 3+ warning on…
On Friday night I was at the Brunswick Pub in (Hove actually) Brighton, UK, to hear the truly phenomenal Oxford duo known as Duotone, namely Barney Morse-Brown and James Garrett who with the brilliantly used loop pedal at Barney’s feet,…
It’s that time of year, I love late September in England, maybe it’s because it’s when I was born or maybe it’s just because it is often very beautiful around here with the low lying sun, long shadows and the beginnings of…
I’ve only just caught up with the entertainment show that rocked the World – it did didn’t it? I was washing my hair when it was transmitted the other day. So our guileless, hapless, and, yes, let’s be honest here, hopeless Prime Minister,…
I’m getting ready for our new poetry event here in Lewes UK – First Wednesday Writers begins next Wednesday in Lewes’ very pleasant Pleasant Stores. The poster has just arrived so I’ll be distributing copies around town later like a…