Happy Chinese New Year from my friend Snakeman.
This is Snakeman, he comes from Zimbabwe but he has lived with me for over ten years now. He keeps a watchful eye on me but this weekend he got you all in his gaze. It’s the Chinese New Year…
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A great evening with some of the other Ward Wood writers
This was my road in Lewes, UK, at three o’clock this morning. No much going on but that was OK because I was on my way to bed after a highly entertaining evening in London where I’d been to a…
Lewes’ First Wednesday Writers – a pleasant poetic gathering
Looking out of the window this morning to the shop across the road known as Pleasant Stores, formerly Ron’s of legendary fame, I inhaled the heady perfume from a large vase of lilies and hyacinths that is permeating the house whilst the…
Winter flowers are cheering me up here in my Lewes garden.
My first daffodil of the year started to flower yesterday here in my small Lewes town garden. It looks a sad but plucky little thing on a sunny but cold February day but it is not entirely alone. The snowdrops…
Time for some Chakra meditation sitting comfortably on my sofa.
That’s better! I’ve been meaning to go back to practicing the Chakra meditation techniques that I was taught some years ago by my friend Ash Hansraj (see links) and yesterday I finally got round to doing them again. I also learnt…
DNA evidence proves the Leicester skeleton is King Richard III buried naked and mutilated in a hasty grave.
King Richard III (1452-1485) Exciting news today about those old bones found in a modern car park, the University of Leicester announced that the remains found under Greyfriars car park in Leicester are indeed the remains of King Richard III, the last…
Doodling Fibonacci on the train
I was in London for my monthly date with Camden-Lumen Poetry on Friday and so I spent some time on the Lewes to London Victoria train (about an hour) – a perfectly pleasant journey from rural Sussex through the many…
So there’s more to David Beckham than meets the eye.
“Hyper-focused” football star David Beckham Well, we’ve always known that professional footballers can kick a ball and that they earn loads of dosh but exciting scientific evidence from Canada demonstrates that professional footballers, and other elite athletes, are not as…
Monarchs – should they stay or should they go?
Queen Beatrix So Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands is going to chuck in her crown on her 75th birthday. Embarrassingly, I’d forgotten that The Netherlands still had a monarchy. Sorry, ma’am! I remembered that there was a lot of kerfuffle…
President Obama may have a lesson for everyone in his immigration speech
Barrack Obama’s speaking last night I can’t claim to be an expert on American politics but I have followed with real interest the Presidency of Barrack Obama. Firstly, in 2008, with incredulous enthusiasm and, during the last Presidential campaign, with…