Scott McKenzie (1939-2012) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) the wonderful Librarian titled and wonderfully atmospheric song will always the the memorial to a nice American pop singer called Scott McKenzie who died on Saturday.…
Shocking images in the video below of a depraved grandfather sinking into the quagmire of drug usage – or maybe not. It reminds me of the story that when the hallucinatory drug LSD was first formulated in the USA, there…
Ah, the weekend! the weather forecast here in the South of England is good – sunshine, blue skies and heat. I can’t believe it – what could possibly go wrong? Time for a song!
They can’t be serious! I still don’t believe it will happen. The publishers, DC Thomson, can’t really be considering closing The Dandy, that great children’s comic that first appeared in 1937. Well loads of bad things were going on in…
I suspect I’m not the only one here in Britain who surprized himself by getting carried away by those Olympics. I watched them on television whenever I could but didn’t actually go to any of the events as I’m not…
They may be very small things, wrens, but they certainly know how to make a big noise as I discovered this week here in Lewes in the United Kingdom. My small town garden may look tranquil enough but earlier this…
It’s been a dreadful summer here in Lewes, UK but before I dispair at the weather forecast that predicts even more rain on its way, I’m going to enjoy a brief moment of summer pleasure out there in my garden.…
After a wonderfully exciting Olympic Games here in Britain and, believe me, I have loved it, there was a disappointingly dull closing ceremony with a lot of old has-been rocksters dad-dancing and the reunited Spice Girls making me wonder how they…
Of course I’ve loved the Olympics – it may have been over-hyped, over-marketed and over-sneered at but those sportsmen and women (and please note British journalists, not just the British ones) were truly inspiring. Literally in my case because they…
Study for Portrait of P.L. No. 2 by Francis Bacon 1957 I spent last weekend in Norwich, a city rich in medieval architecture and echoes from the past. It was a complete change of mood when I visited the university of…