Minimalist day
Head clear day – pure minimalism. Hmm. Tabula Rasa. Arvo Pärt. Hmmm.
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A pressing appointment for my legs.
I’m now in the second week of my new fitness regime set by my instructor Phil. He has got me working out on the weight machines three times a week with two days spent just doing a leisurely 25 minute…
My Lewes Sunday
I foolishly wished for a wet weekend, as discussed in yesterday’s blog, hoping to find time to spend listening to Brahms’ First Symphony without any temptations to venture outside. My idea was frustrated though when the rain cleared and my…
I’m hoping for a rainy weekend with Johannes Brahms and Rufus Wainwright
It was raining here in Lewes, UK, this morning and the sky was angry and dark. Great I thought, I can stay in and do indoor things, weekend, lazy, self-indulgent things. My gym schedule rules that I shouldn’t do any…
Hello, old friend, the lat pull-down machine – it’s been too long.
Bug-free at last, I’ve been going back to the gym over the last few weeks continuing on my fitness “come-back” after four years of gradual progress after that dreaded brain haemorrhage. I’ll be celebrating Haemorrhage Day on October 30th –…
Julia Gillard, Australia’s great politician says it as it is – wow!
I was bemoaning our fate here in Britain recently as the political party conference season inflicted on us a string of our most senior politicians trying to seduce us with rhetoric, propaganda, eye wash, and, well, tosh. What a relief…
A musical nerd’s iPod playlist.
Sometimes life gets too busy for decision-making or maybe it is because I have a Libran personality with that famous reluctance to make decisions or, most likely, I’m just a little bit OCD but recently I’ve taken to playing all…
Britain’s party leaders are PR bores.
So, OK, Ed went to a comprehensive school, Nick is sorry and Dave’s just a regular guy. It is all true I”m sure but I think we have heard all this before. They are perfectly decent blokes I suspect, our…
Royal Mail – Britain’s great mail inheritance messed up by its incompetent marketing and terrible prerecorded telephone messages.
Britain’s Royal Mail, beleaguered, struggling, under competition but incompetent and old-fashioned at management level patronising its customers with shoddy marketing and terrible telecommunications. We deserve more for our mail and our postmen and postwomen, almost always excellent in my opinion,…
Sometimes nothing much happens.
Sometimes days are just like that, not much to say, not much happens. I feel sorry for the news media on slow news days and right now, I can’t think of much to say either. It’s not raining out there,…