My first snowdrop here in my Lewes garden.
A shiny new year, a clean sheet, some new poems published and this solitary snowdrop in my garden – I am ready for new things now that the festive season is fading away.
Happy New Year to all wolfiewolfgang’s readers – we have spent three years together this week. Thanks for reading.
My primroses are in bloom promising a better year ahead for us all…I hope they are right. Happy New Year, World.
Some great 2011 Reuters photographs from some brave photographers – let’s imagine a better 2012.
A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration. Cairo, Egypt 28/1/2011 “I was in south Sudan covering the referendum when I found out that there were going to be protests in Egypt. I felt that there…
Predictions for the New Year – pointless fun or gloom.
Every year, at this time, we are encouraged to look back to the last twelve months and forward to the next. It is, of course much easier to remember the past than to predict the future but mostly, the unwritten…
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM WOLFIEWOLFGANG
Here is some very very festive music:
Merry Christmas to everyone including all my geeky friends and to Terry Gilliam too – Monty Python genius
I know a lot of geeks who will be looking forward to tomorrow to see just how many gadgets santa will bring along on his virtual sledge. Let me wish them all a Merry christmas now because they will probably…
Kiss and Tell – A first kiss to make President Obama proud.
I do know all about photo opportunities and I am also familiar with all journalists’ need for an easy news story. Apparently us newspaper readers always like seeing the photo of a returning naval fleet and the first kisses that…
Nearly time for the Downton Abbey Christmas, er, special.
The nation holds its breath, or so we are told, for the so-called Christmas Special of that over-rated, under-imagined and breath-takingly unoriginal series Downton Abbey. I see from the publicity photographs that the programme will feature a shooting party on the…
Wolfiewolfgang is obsessed with Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
Astrid Varnay (1918-2006) I have been thinking about Richard Wagner over the last few weeks because I am currently obsessing over Gotterdammerung, the last music drama in his epic four day cycle, The Ring. I have for a long time…
The Slap – something great from Australia.
It is much too easy for all of us whichever country we live in, to identify some other nation to sneer at, to mock and even to underestimate. There has been a friendly animosity between Britain and Australia, for instance,…