There is absolutely no other reason for me publishing this picture other than amazement. Sometimes a photograph tells us just how much the World has changed in the last fifty or so years. OK, she wants bananas, I can understand…
I have renamed Caffè Americano for the American election period. In several restaurants around Lewes and Brighton I have asked them to do the same. So, please everyone, until American election night, let’s all call Caffè Americano, Caffè Obama. You…
Tonight, I’ll be raising the curtain on the first night of the new monthly poetry event in my home town of Lewes, UK. We are meeting in the very pleasant Pleasant Stores for what is, I hope, a very democratic…
I had always resisted the idea of playing Pokemon – well, it’s for kids, it’s addictive, it’s a waste of time, it’s silly, I’d be crap at it, you get the idea. I know it has a 3+ warning on…
On Friday night I was at the Brunswick Pub in (Hove actually) Brighton, UK, to hear the truly phenomenal Oxford duo known as Duotone, namely Barney Morse-Brown and James Garrett who with the brilliantly used loop pedal at Barney’s feet,…
It’s that time of year, I love late September in England, maybe it’s because it’s when I was born or maybe it’s just because it is often very beautiful around here with the low lying sun, long shadows and the beginnings of…
I’ve only just caught up with the entertainment show that rocked the World – it did didn’t it? I was washing my hair when it was transmitted the other day. So our guileless, hapless, and, yes, let’s be honest here, hopeless Prime Minister,…
I’m getting ready for our new poetry event here in Lewes UK – First Wednesday Writers begins next Wednesday in Lewes’ very pleasant Pleasant Stores. The poster has just arrived so I’ll be distributing copies around town later like a…
After considering that Libra tattoo yesterday, I’ve decided (yep, Librans do make decisions eventually) that they’re not for me unless it’s somewhere very private. I was put off after seeing these very clever but toe curling examples. Sorry but these…
Libra – body painting by Neil Hughes, photography by Alex Shelley. I don’t understand all this stuff about horoscopes and zodiac signs but I do know that my “birth sign” is Libra illustrated as balancing scales, rather dull I used…