Late May in East Sussex, England, came into its own this weekend with hot weather at last. I had just had good news about my vocal chords too from the throat surgeon – I don’t need an operation as my…
It has been a chilly Spring here in England and all those long-awaited bulbs arrived late but many of them flowered together and lasted far longer than usual. The same was true of the tree blossoms….this year my cherry tree…
As part of my growing interest in America’s second smallest state, I see in the papers today that Vermont has announced that it is going to start buying some of its electricity from neighbouring New Hampshire’s wind turbines because it…
I have been thinking about Vermont all week wondering why no one who lives in the U.S.A.’s second smallest state ever looks at this website. Vermont is the only American state that has never looked at this daily blog and,…
It is one of those classic images that we Europeans treasure about America. It sums up the wonder of Autumn or Fall, as the Americans call it with admirable lack of poetry. Well, that is much too harsh, Fall does…
Sometimes looking at this website which I have been running now since December 2008, I wonder if it is really the wild ramblings of a hypochondriac because so much of it, though less recently, has been to do with illness.…
I did it again the other day. I trod on a snail when I was out in my garden in bare feet. Actually I don’t care any more. I seldom wear shoes when I am at home and snails are…
Regular readers of this blog will know by know that I have been suffering from an annoying eye condition where at certain ranges I have been seeing double. I am working on building up my muscle strength in the hope…
Goodbye Gordon There is nothing like winning – especially if you are a politician. Here in Britain, David Cameron and Nick Clegg ended up the winners last night after an entertaining day of political sea-saws and list ticking. Gordon Brown…
I don’t know what you are all thinking about us at the moment, all of this site’s overseas readers but I suspect you are not thinking about us at all! Us being the people of the United Kingdom I mean,…