An old warhorse took a leap into the dark, I hear, with the announcement of the death of the British conductor, Sir Edward Downes and his wife, Anne at the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland. A romantic pact no doubt as…
It is so easy to scoff. It is “nice” living in a nice middle class town with nice middle class people. Scoff as much as you like but my town, Lewes in South-Eastern England does have a lot going for…
A few months ago a friend was watching football on television and I realized that I couldn’t watch moving images. That was not such a tragedy maybe if football was the only thing I was going to miss but I…
I had another bloody session at the doctor’s today – with the phlebotomist in fact, the woman who has drawn more blood out of me than I had in there in the first place. I am used to it by…
We have been fed the images, felt the heat and wished we were there – la bella Italia. It is that time of year when I always think of Italy. Those long hot summer days on an Italian beach with…
I went away to London for the weekend – the first time I went out of my local area since my brain haemorrhage apart from a crazy morphine fueled trip to Amsterdam a week after leaving hospital. I thought I…
I went on one of those “mad dogs and Englishmen” walks around town yesterday when the temperature was soaring and the humidity made it seem even hotter than the 30s/90s that the thermometer had reached here in Lewes in South…
I went to the bone man the other day – just the latest in my busy diary full of consultants looking at me with a critical eye. I always thought I was perfect until I was suddenly taken ill 8…
China, oh China! Here we go again. I think the worst job in the World must be trying to run a country of such gigantic proportions, in size and population. Here in England, we might get a few grumpy students…
Well who would believe it! That movable roof at Wimbledon was used because apparently London was having bad weather. It was the Andy Murray match which everyone except me seems to have been watching. Apparently it was very exciting but…