Here in my garden in Lewes, England, I can feel the first hints of a change in temperature as the wind direction shifts and some sobering Eastern cold air comes in to hurry along the autumn. As the season changes…
Do you think the new neighbourhood cat is trying to tell me something? First she tried to get into the shower with me (sorry no photo) but decided she didn’t like water so then she went up stairs and stretched…
Just when I was about to despair about us getting any Autumn here in Lewes, England, the sun came out, the temperature rose and, hey, it all felt good again. There were apples on the trees, the sun on my…
I have a friend and relative called Henry who works at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, Surrey, England, and he invited me there for the first night of a new play. Oddly enough, I nearly went off the idea…
It should have been annoying I suppose. You order a book, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, the latest candidate, or so everyone tells you, for the title Next Great American Novel, it arrives with Amazon’s usual efficiency, almost before you click…
So Hastings Pier has been burned by vandals it seems and another symbol of the grand days of the English seaside holiday goes up in flames. Hastings, in Sussex, has in recent decades tumbled down the social scale from respectable…
I was standing at a bus stop in pouring rain on Saturday afternoon at the spot seen in the photograph above but on a much gloomier day. Temporarily car-less, I timed my bus journey at a time when England has…
After a miserably wet weekend here in Lewes, England, the sun is almost shining and, so far, there has been no rain. After the demise of my gladioli under the weight of water, see yesterday’s blog, at least that weirdly…
They were meant to be an injection of striking colour in high summer but my gladioli here in my garden in lewes in the UK, were as slow as the seasonal weather this year and they didn’t bloom until it…
I was sitting on the top deck of an English double-decker bus in a seat at the front – always the best place to be unless there is a crash. This was last night somewhere in rural England in torrential…