Watching Paint Dry
This week has been one of self-imposed idleness when I have been hoping to recoup my energy after the previous fortnight when all my strength evaporated after a string of social events. I have spent nearly a year now recovering…
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Sexual Intercourse was invented in 1859
The great English poet Philip Larkin wrote: “Sexual intercourse was invented in 1963, a bit too late for me.” Well, I have news for him but maybe that is a bit too late for him too as he died in…
Crocodile Rock Comes To Lewes
Something exciting is happening across the road from me here in Lewes in South East England. Well, let’s be fair loads of exciting things happen here as regular readers to this blog will know. I don’t have all the details…
Looking for Horace
Another wet day here in South East England with low pressure over the English Channel – I am showing off now – and rain is forecast for the rest of this week which I have taken off so that I…
Autumn Free
I know that I live in England and I also know what all of my readers in foreign parts think about our obsession with the weather but I still have to say it: Rain! It hasn’t rained for weeks so…
There is always something going on outside if you are bored
What I need is a bit of street entertainment. I have been recovering all week from the tiredness induced by the last two weeks of socializing and celebrating. I was approached recently by an organization acting for a group that…
Odalisque or Obelisk?
You can get into a lot of trouble if you aren’t careful with long words. I have often invited people back to see my Odalisque when I really meant Obelisk. I suspect some of my visitors were highly disappointed when…
Love’s Transfiguraton in Wagner’s Erotic Imagination
It was released to the World in Munich in 1865 but completed in the year that I am studying at the moment 1859. Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, the most talked about and written about of all operas and one which…
Do you know where you keep your cufflinks? Have you had a brain haemorrhage?
It is good to wake up today feeling pretty normal. I have been pacing myself as I try to recover from my brain haemorrhage but knowing that I had a lot of social events around my birthday last week and…
Bud Burst
It was a special weekend – my birthday celebration amongst other things with the coming together of friends and family, the people who inhabit that well-worn phrase, “loved ones.” Something floated above everything, a phrase I have used before, my…