Claiming my Irish inheritance
Most people regard me as a typical Englishman, but, in reality I am, like many people born in the British Isles, a mixture of English, Scottish and Irish. It just happens that I grew up in Sussex in Southern England,…
Category Lifestyle
Hitting the ground running
I’ve been trying to get back to full fitness now for twenty months, nearly two years, after a difficult eight or so years of ill-health. A brain haemorrhage in 2008, and a pulmonary embolism a few years later, in 2013/14,…
The tragic departure of a much-loved beard – Wolfie has to hide his face in shame.
It was all a terrible mistake! Honestly, it wasn’t deliberate. I was just trimming my beard, as you do…. then the unspeakable happened. I’d got the wrong setting on the razor and, in one fell swoop, all the beard…
It’s Summertime – well, we’re nearly there in Lewes or so I’m told by Mr Schafernaker.
As you all know, we officially started summer last weekend and to prove it, yes, you’ve guessed, the seasonal change has been marked in my household by my mother’s latest tea cosy, every house should have one. Here is her…
My new friend, the one-eyed Siamese cat.
I’m an enthusiast about my small Lewes, UK, garden and, I have to say in all modesty that it is looking particularly fine at the moment with all the roses in full bloom and much else on its way.…
It’s all about beards here in Lewes – they are so now.
I’m told that beards are trendy this year and just as stopped clocks tell the right time twice a day, I’ve suddenly become dead trendy without realising it. Well I’ve mostly had a beard so I’m pleased all those…
Breaking News: My mother’s latest tea cosy design unveiled at last.
I know the excitement has been building since I announced last December that my mother was about to finish the winter tea cosy just before her 100th birthday but, many apologies, I seem to have omitted sharing a photograph of…
A touch of Spring comes to Lewes – cold but dead romantic.
It seems that I was not alone in enjoying the beautiful February sunshine in Lewes’ Southover Grange Gardens yesterday – and why not, early Springtime impulses are all about couples sitting on park benches with a bottle of wine…
Call me superficial but I’m in love with my new shoes.
My Dr Hu Light Wing Franklin Hi-Tops I know that they’re only a pair of shoes and, yes, I know that there’s a danger in me coming over as one hopelessly vain and superficial person, but I’m…
Short dark days, Bowmore whisky, log fires and the 12 days of Christmas: the true season of mellowness.
I’m an enthusiast for the Winter Solstice but it’s not because I’m a misanthrope or a pessimist or even a creature of the night, it’s more to do with a Northern European enthusiasm for log fires, mellow whisky, candlelight, harmony…