What happens if you go off to Italy for two weeks…
I have been in Italy for two weeks and very good it was to be there. I’ll tell you about it later this week but, for now, just believe me that it is exceedingly pleasant to sit outside your own…
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I’m putting my feet up for a couple of weeks.
Hi everyone, I’m putting my feet up for a couple of weeks after some intensive weeks of writing so I hope you’ll just take a ramble around my other blogs from the last four years here on this site. If…
Mixing writing and Kungfu works for me but I’m far from being a Shaolin monk.
I’ve found a mental and physical exercise routine that has worked for me while writing the first draft of my new novel which I finished on Wednesday and celebrated as a significant landmark even though I know that there’s plenty…
It all came out in the wash.
We’re not meant to enjoy undiluted pleasure very often in life and yesterday was no exception to that miserable truth. First the good news: I’ve finished the first draft of my new novel which is coming in at around 80,000…
24 years and China still needs to reassess the disgrace of Tiannanmen Square.
In my eyes down mode, I’ve been coming to the final pages of my new novel’s first draft and yesterday, June 4th, went by without me recognising the 24th Anniversary of the tragedy of the Tiananmen Square riot, demonstration, or,…
Wolfie – still frenzied after all these years
The writing goes on. Sorry to pop in here so briefly again but I’ve just one chapter to write before finishing the first draft of a new novel. Tomorrow should get me to the end but until then I shall…
Writing frenzy breaks out in Lewes.
As you can see, I’m frantically writing at the moment and today’s blog has got a bit over-looked. I’m galloping towards the end of the first draft of a new novel – I should get there either tomorrow or the…
Which way do you turn if you are a Lewes man”
Living in Lewes, UK, you just have to know which side you’re on. On Friday night I was given a choice: turn right or left. I knew which way to go. Would you? It was a great night, in case…
Twentieth Century Classical Music – more exciting than you might think.
My seat near the front of the stalls last night in London’s Royal Festival Hall meant that i could hear every note that was played in the Philharmonia Orchestra’s concert under their principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. The notes were worth…
It’s Stravinsky Day for Wolfie
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) There was a riot in Paris one hundred years ago yesterday, 29th May, 1913. The audience at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées were shocked, outraged and excited when Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe company gave Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring…