Shall I sing you a song?
Would you like me to sing you a song? Well, tough. I have lost my singing voice. Doesn’t he go on? I can hear you now as I mention that dreaded word illness. Now don’t worry, I am not going…
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Brain Haemorrhages sure take the ginger out of a summer’s day
I am half way through my morning mug of coffee, the window is open, pleasantly neutral summer air is breezing its way round my room and, somehow, a small spider has decided to make me its home. Off you go…
Feeling better and getting frustrated about my brain haemorrhage
Another new week begins with a new dosage of my anti-seizure drugs – epanutin – I am now down to half my original amount and consequently full of hope that I am on the mend. So far I have had…
Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
It is that time of year when it used to be traditional to go to the seaside for your summer holidays – well here in Europe anyway. I was one of those lucky children who actually grew up with the…
We Will Remember Them
Harry Patch who was 111 years old, will be buried today after what will be a moving and what appears to be a national ceremony of some significance for all of us. As I write, crowds gather outside Wells Cathedral…
Cricket Stumped
Sometime ago, I found myself standing in a Philadelphia park with a grizzled old black ex-cop. We were watching a cricket match and I was struggling to explain the rules of this complex and absorbing English sport. He said, without…
Kungfu And The Grindea Technique – Music And Martial Arts In Agreement
As I wrote yesterday, I spent all of last week at my kungfu club’s summer camp (www.whitecranefightingarts.com) where the underlying theme was correct posture and the ancient Chinese theories behind it. I wasn’t always well enough to go to all…
Kungfu in the forest
I spent last week under canvas in a forest practising Kungfu and having an amazingly good time for someone who has spent the last nine months almost home-bound recovering from a brain haemorrhage. It was the annual Kungfu Summer Camp…
Ruby – joy in adversity
I have been talking about all my pets on here this week and really there shouldn’t be an entry for today. When my old dog Ralph, the Springer Spaniel, died in his extreme old age, I decided that that was…
Ralph – the best of dogs
Ralph was a Springer Spaniel. He was a merry beast with a sense of fun that never left him in his nearly sixteen years. There was nothing better in his opinion than running for miles, chasing rabbits, seagulls, ducks and…