It went wrong in China 25 years ago but it went very right for Poland – let’s hope the same for Ukraine. ——————————————————————————————————– STEPHEN DEARSLEY’S SUMMER OF LOVE BY COLIN BELL My novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, was published on…
Interesting piece of digital art here on the 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests that were put down brutally 25 years ago today. This picture, like it or hate it, won’t be shown in China today – all information…
After a week of rain and miserable low temperatures, I just love it when the sun comes out and never more when it knows to shine on my roses. The rose Danse de Feu knows how to find the spot…
Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) In my television days, I worked on a series of films called God Bless America (ITV) that asked distinguished American writers to make filmed essays about their native cities. I had…
I’ve often been told that I’m an odd sort of chap and that I’m, well you know, a bit different from other people. I’m not that strange, honestly, I fancy a pint down the pub as well as the next…
The David Austin Garden, Chelsea Flower Show, 2014 I haven’t been to the Chelsea flower show for a few years now but, from what i’ve seen in the media, the 2014 show has been one of the best for a…
This is Danse de Feu (Fire Dance), one of my David Austen roses. It has burst into flame this week in its unlikely place at the darkest part of my small Lewes garden on the mostly shadowy North facing flint…
Still image from Bill Viola’s Martyrs (2014) I’m impressed that London’s St Paul’s Cathedral has commissioned the great American video artist, Bill Viola, to make a video installation/altarpiece on the theme of martyrs. I suspect some people will be shocked…
I’ve been celebrating the arrival of my roses here in my Lewes, UK, garden and today it’s the turn of my rose, Mortimer Sackler, a delightfully vivid pink that grows profusely on the most vigorous of all my climbing roses.…
Yesterday I wrote about my tulips reaching their season’s end so it’s only fair to announce the arrival of my roses – various varieties of old rose type climbers and all from David Austin. This one, Benjamin Britten, has a…