I’m just saying hello from under a pile of paperwork today so forgive my absence good readers. It’s not a bad feeling for someone like me to get down to sorting all the muddles that grow between different drafts of…
Poor Freddie Gage, it must be sad to have lost all your friends but this album sure ain’t gonna bring you any new ones. I have an awful feeling that his performance may have killed them all off. Actually there…
Yesterday was sunny and warm here in Lewes, UK. I would have felt great too if I hadn’t been on my last day of taking some particularly disagreeable antibiotics for my gum abscess. I would have felt worse though it…
George Osborne For all those “grannies” in the United Kingdom who are worried about the cut in their pensions after the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne’s Budget, there is even more gloom if they fancy tottering off down…
I was going to write something irritating about Romeo and Juliet, you remember those annoying teenagers who just couldn’t keep things together, but I couldn’t bring myself to say anything cynical about them on the day that I’m writing a…
I’ve been trying to write a poem about love for a wedding this summer but as I’m on antibiotics which are real downers, I’m not sure how romantic I’m feeling at the moment so I thought I would seek inspiration…
I am now half way through a course of antibiotics for the abscess inside my upper gum – nice – and I’m not enjoying it. The abscess isn’t fun but then neither is the drug that was prescribed to get…
Spring has definitely arrived here in my small town garden in Lewes, UK. I can throw open the windows and let in sunshine and the fragrant smell of photosynthesis. I have even given the climber roses a few lessons in…
Somebody told me the other day that they liked me because I was always cheerful and friendly – I fooled them obviously. Sorry to upset that cheery person and others who agree but I never like people just because they…
This photo, by the excellent photographer Johanna Siegmann, shows us how we first got together with our pet dogs’ ancestors, those wolves who decided to be friendly for some reason. Maybe ancient man reared some abandoned cubs and they bonded.…