Foxes hit the road.
It is quite cool being related to a rock band so I have been enjoying my blood ties to the greatly entertaining indie-rock band known, complete with exclamation mark, as Foxes! So forgive my bias if I suggest you try to find…
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Lewes with its Autumn leaves reminds me of a scene from The Exorcist.
I can still go out on a beautiful Autumn afternoon just after Halloween and try not to think of that classic horror film The Exorcist but usually I fail. It isn’t the revolving head or the flashing crucifixes as much…
Sutherland as Tosca and me forgetting Maria Callas for a moment.
After all the obituaries of the great Australian soprano, including my quite personal recollections last week here on this site, I thought i had said my last words on Joan Sutherland but then I came across this clip on Utube…
Horace the spider has decided to block me from going outside into my Lewes garden..
I am not really being sentimental but my best friend Horace, the garden spider, has weaved his beautiful web right across the doors that lead into my back garden. He has spent a long time making this intricate design and…
It is two years since my brain haemorrhage – how should I celebrate?
It will be two years tomorrow since I suffered a brain haemorrhage in my left frontal lobe and so today, I thought I should mark it in some way. I was told, all that time ago, that I was lucky…
Lewes For Sale Signs – Don’t you Love ‘Em
I have written before on this blog site about the sad loss of Ron’s shop which used to sit conveniently across the road from my house here in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It was a melancholy sight in the late…
A rainy Autumn night in Lewes is actually quite attractive.
So it rained last night and I had to go out visiting. I grumbled a bit under my breath but then, iPod turned on, a first outing for my winter coat and my solid and reliably constant umbrella opened, I…
The Exmoor Emperor dies and fat men with guns win again.
photo Richard Austin Wildlife photographer Richard Austin got his photographs of this giant stag deer into the British newspapers last week showing the true magnificence of what was, until a few days ago, Britain’s largest wild animal, known on Exmoor at…
The Aronowitz Ensemble and Foxes! brighten an autumnal Lewes evening.
Friday afternoon in Lewes On Friday night, my fellow residents of Lewes will have noticed the Autumn sunshine and, later on, that astonishingly bright Moon. It felt like a special day somehow and all I needed was the right music…
The Red Hot Chili Peppers come in out of the cold
On the cover of their “tribute” EP to The Beatles, that 80s Californian band, The Red Hot Chili Peppers revisited the famous Zebra Crossing and did adventurous things with their socks. I was never quite sure about why they chose…