I have been called obsessive in my life. I am still interested in most of the things that absorbed me in my childhood so I tend to think that I suffer from arrested development. Suffering doesn’t come into it of…
My Kung Fu instructor, Neil, is back from that trip to Fuzhou in Southern China and he came round this morning for our regular weekly two-man teach yourself Mandarin Chinese session. Since my brain damage, I have fallen behind and,…
I went out with my camera yesterday because the sun came out and I just wanted to take a walk with the camera – one of the real pleasure of modern life. Four months after my brain haemorrhage, I am…
It is a grey day here in Sussex, England, on the last day in February. My garden is making some amends with purple and orange croci fighting for space with the first few of the miniature blue iris reticulata. In…
Have you ever lied? You know, someone asks you something and you really don’t want them to know the truth. Did you steal that apple? What apple? Is the first reaction of a guilty man playing for time and trying…
The British House of Commons suspended the weekly knockabout debate known as Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday and were replaced by tributes to a six year old child lead by the Prime Minister and echoed by the whole house which was…
I don’t know if you realized but today is Ash Wednesday, oh no, the beginning of Lent. It is time to give up all your pleasures and to think gloomy thoughts about sin and death. Great. It is the big…
Mardi Gras! From New Orleans to Rio, the carnival is here. Yay! Well, maybe not everywhere as you can see from the photographs. Well those two old men might be planning something wild for later on, who knows. The two…
I wasn’t at the Oscars last night as you probably noticed. Well, it is just not my thing really. All that glitz and glamour, the showing off, the vanity, to say nothing about the blatant display of emotion. It is…
Maybe I should get out more. I have been incarcerated now, well with a few exceptions, since coming out of hospital in November. House arrest they call it in some countries. It used to sound quite pleasant to me. House…