Some good news for all Red Wolf lovers
Red Wolf 1287 I try not to be biased towards wolves but I just can’t help it – they are wonderful beasts, none more so than the American Red Wolf which sadly and outrageously is one of the World’s most…
Category Uncategorised
Kew Gardens: the World neatly packaged in London
The whole World in one place – at Kew Gardens in London. I spent a day there at the weekend visiting the tropical house and then the temperate house but I was really Globe trotting and reviving my love of…
St. Bloomsbury’s – Duncan Grant’s Sussex Church paintings
Last week, I visited the little 12th Century church at Berwick just a few miles away from my home in Lewes, East Sussex. We are so blessed with medieval churches around here that it is easy to take them for…
Tempted by apples in a Lewes garden.
My small apple tree here in my Lewes garden has finally offered up these deliciously tempting fruits as August and Summer begins to wave us goodbye. The fruit, variety Croquella, is an early herald for Autumn and its rosiness tempers…
Wolfiewolfgang envies other people’s national anthems
Bradley Wiggins of Britain wins the 2012 Tour de France. The downside of Britain having such a run of sporting successes this year has been missing one of my favourite tunes. It was marvellous that Bradley Wiggins became the first…
Janis Joplin – the greatest voice from the Summer Of Love
Janis Joplin Following my blog about the Scott Mckenzie and his place in the musically rich Summer of Love in 1967, on Tuesday, one of wolfiewolfgang.com’s regular readers, sent me this note. I agree with him whole-heartedly that the late…
Famous brand names ripped off – wrong but oddly right too.
I came across these entertaining photographs the other day – they are all unwitting (I think) cross cultural comments on the products that they are ripping off. Wii will always be WiWi for me now. S&Ms sounds a lot more…
The neglected jungle that is Lewes’ Brach Mound.
My small town garden here in middle of Lewes, UK, borders onto an ancient defensive mound called Brach Mound. This year the owners of the Mound have decided to let it go wild and, rather like Burnham Woods in Macbeth,…
Scott McKenzie: The death of the nice guy who sang a song that will never die.
Scott McKenzie (1939-2012) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) the wonderful Librarian titled and wonderfully atmospheric song will always the the memorial to a nice American pop singer called Scott McKenzie who died on Saturday.…
Shocking images of drug depravity: first time Marijuana smoking grandad –
Shocking images in the video below of a depraved grandfather sinking into the quagmire of drug usage – or maybe not. It reminds me of the story that when the hallucinatory drug LSD was first formulated in the USA, there…