Merry Christmas everyone! Oh, sorry, it’s still only November – sorry about this premature piece of Christmas cheer. Maybe this is better: Here is a charming photograph I think. It is part of a series showing the slow motion effects…
This is an interesting situation involving the very popular but adult-rated video game Skyrim. The cute little six-year old in the video clip below has an exciting adventure that involves her “swording” bad guys and seeing, maybe, a bit too…
My friends the indie band Foxes! have been the subject of a blog or two on here in the past and I am unrepentant about singing their praises especially as one of them, Adam, happens to be my close relative…
The British Prime Minister David Cameron announced yesterday that the government’s attempts to cut debt were “proving harder than anyone envisaged.” Who does he mean when he says “anyone”? The last government? The much-reviled ex-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown? Many leading…
A walk in the country will never seem the same again for this man. He looks a fast enough runner – well a lot faster than me anyway. There is civilization ahead, well a Shell petrol station, but will he…
After a rain shower a couple of days ago, my little courtyard garden here in Lewes smelt fragrant with mingling rose perfumes. A familiarly sensuous experience in the Summer months but highly unusual for mid-November. Here in Britain, we are…
This has been a week of funerals and mourning but amidst the gloom, there was a poignant and inspiring interlude when, at one of our family gatherings, the phenomenal Scots piper James Stewart demonstrated not only his exceptional technique and…
There are now signs of success for the 32 Colombian University’s students who brought the centre of Bogota to a standstill recently with their colourful and delightfully humourous demonstrations against government privatisation plans. I think these young people must have…
image by Beefactory There are so many ways to play the music of J.S. Bach and the spirit of the man survives even if the musical method is something that he could never have imagined. I think he would have…
I think I must be an odd mix of high-tech and low-tech because my writing routine involves my beloved i-Mac computer, of course, but I often resort to that most enjoyable and trouble-free pieces of technology, the lead pencil –…