North Korean Flag It was an easy enough mistake to make – well all flags look about the same don’t they! I mean take this little problem when the British Olympic organizers showed the South Korean flag instead of the…
Looking at some of my recent holiday photos I noticed something that my kinder friends haven’t mentioned. I had a good time over there on the Italian Riviera where the food is wonderful and the temperatures high enough to tempt…
President Bashar Hafez al-Assad So it appears that President Assad of Syria really does have weapons of mass destruction and he is threatening to use them if, fine chance, his country is invaded by any foreign forces. He says too,…
The English summer may just have arrived here in my home town of Lewes, East Sussex. My garden, after some hefty summer pruning looked fine yesterday evening….. …and it was still looking fine this morning. Today, we are told, it…
Celebration time! My camera, the Cannon EOS 400D, is back from the camera shop mended and in full working order after I damaged it in Italy impatiently jamming the memory card into the camera body and bending the delicate pins…
It is great idea, the Olympic Torch Relay – inspirational in an epic way. The flame of the Olympic spirit lit in Greece and then carried through Britain, brought to the people in advance of this the “People’s Games” –…
Rain, steam and speed (1844) by J.M.W. Turner I haven’t been totally depressed by all the rain falling in these parts over the last couple of months, well, I’m not happy about it but it has made me look for…
Spider-man (2002) with Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire All that stuff about kissing in the rain the other day made some of my readers want more so, sorry to the others, here are some clips from those memorable kissing in…
With apologies to people round the World suffering from droughts and floods, I need to say a few words about England’s record-breaking rainy July. Yesterday I expressed my admiration for President Obama’s Speechin’ In The Rain but the wet stuff…
I’m not American, I don’t live in the United States of America and I have no vote in the 2012 American Presidential elections but I still can’t help gunning for Barrack Obama’s reelection. We have our own rain problems here in…