I came across one of the miracles of the British National Health Service yesterday. Something I would have missed if I had listened to the well-meaning advice of my local doctor. I wrote in a previous blog how I had…
Congratulations to Mr. Jose Luis Rodrigues who has just won the Veolia Environment Wild Life Photographer of the Year 2009 with this inspirational shot of a hunting wolf. Surely it is not only me, a self-confessed wolf, who can enjoy…
I was in London yesterday, an hour’s train journey away from here, and I had fun meeting a friend for lunch but also just being out and about, drug-free at last and, hopefully, on my way to a full recovery…
Autumn has decided to arrive in rush here in South East England, well, here in my home town of Lewes in East Sussex any way. There is a slight chill in the air, the skies are blue and it is…
I had a private kungfu lesson this morning and as it was raining we were indoors and my ground floor, with a bit of furniture moving, soon turned into a torture chamber. We began with a little light stretching, Chinese…
Forgive me if I talk about illness again today but I am now moving into a kind of endgame as far as my recovery from a brain haemorrhage is concerned. In two weeks, on the anniversary of the day that…
I listened to a fantastic recording of Brahms’ monumentally Romantic 1st Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 15, yesterday. I have had to wait until now because my self-inflicted journey through the history of music has only just got me…
I like to do things quickly. I am always fighting my impatience demon, when it comes to it, I can focus obsessively but there is always a little voice in my ear wailing “get on with it man!” I know…
I was doing the washing earlier and when I hung out my kungfu uniform, I noticed a provocative sight just over the wall in my neighbours garden. I call my neighbours The Taekwondos because the whole family, father, mother, son…
After a week when I withdrew from the World, I am back with a new schedule, a new plan. As you all know by now, I am recovering from a brain haemorrhage – a long and frustrating convalescence which is…