April is looking at May in my garden.
It is overcast this morning but warm and there is a sense of rampant fertility in the air as the English Spring comes to its climax here in Lewes in Sussex. I have a new addition to my garden, the…
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Britain has been Clegged
With apologies to my friends in Scotland and Wales, today I am wearing my English hat and celebrating St. George’s Day. I know England is only a part of the British Isles, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the…
Cherry Blssom Time
I planted my small ornamental cherry tree just before I was taken ill with a brain haemorrhage in October 2008. Hospital, a near death experience and quite a lot of pain meant Winter 2008 had its down side but, when…
How sunbathing made me think of Graham Greene
A very good friend of mine sent me an article ( www.williamlanday.com/ -) the other day about how the novelist Graham Greene wrote exactly 500 words every morning and then stopped for the rest of the day even if that…
Basking in the sun under a cloud of dust
So the Eyjafiallajokull volcano is erupting in Iceland sending clouds of dust into the atmosphere over the United Kingdom, grounding all aircraft at British airports and stranding all but the most pioneering of Brits in holiday destinations all over the…
Wudang Master Chen ShiXing comes to Lewes
On Friday evening, an illustrious Chinaman came to visit my kung fu club, White Crane Fighting Arts ( www.whitecranefightingarts.com/ -) in Lewes in Sussex in the United Kingdom. Master Chen ShiXing is a Wudang master from the Wudang Mountains in…
The British Political Leaders gave us a proper debate.
I don’t know how many people watched the leaders debate on British television last night but today everyone is talking about it. It was the first time that Britain has screened such a debate, the first of three, where the…
So after fifty years resisting the idea, Britain has finally decided to change the way we vote for our government. No longer will it be about electing a governing party, left or right or something in the middle, now our…
Let the Sun shine in
Tonight sees the opening, in London’s West End, of the revived 1967 musical Hair reminding us all, lest we forgot, that we are still stumbling around looking for our slippers in that early dawn of the Age of Aquarius. I…
Poland has so much to mourn
Scene of the Polish aircrash It must be truly horrific, almost almost of us have had those brief daymares as well as nightmares where we are living through those final moments before a plane crash. So we are all shocked…