Letting out my inner wolf
After a very sociable three days where it has been highly enjoyable mixing with old friends, I am now equally happy to be on my own again so that I can allow my inner wolf a bit of free-roaming time.…
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Cactus watering time returns – it must be Spring.
Wolfie’s cactus 3rd March 2012 Early March, a dramatic time not just for Julius Caesar who should have watched out for that Brutus but also for my cactus plant. My life is not quite counted it out in coffee spoons…
The Wire
I don’t know the true identity of the genius that is “mrfrothy” but he has my sincere admiration for these inspired wind-up “Wire” characters. I want them – and NOW. Sadly there is only one set of them, hand made…
Time to ask Mr Ford for a shiny new car
So which car would you have chosen from the three beautiful machines above? The moodily elegant deep blue one on the left, the sky blue classic in the middle or the shiny and bright red one on the right? One…
Camellia time in Lewes
Some mild weather, a light spring shower and some sunshine and look what happens in my small Lewes garden. Yes, it’s camellia time again and this the first bloom is at its most seductive when its blushing red is sprinkled…
St Paul’s Cathedral cleared of caring people
It’s all clear again at St Paul’s Cathedral in London so no one need fear going into this magnificent building to do whatever people do in there – pray for peace, I guess, and pray to end greed and poverty…
Horrible things live where the sun don’t shine.
I wonder if, when God created life, he tried a few things out at the bottom of the sea first. Maybe it was his way of seeing whether this life thing was worthwhile at all. Luckily for us, I guess,…
They don’t make doctors or dentists like they used to in the old days….thank God.
I love this 19th Century photograph of a particularly sinister-looking doctor. If you ever feel squeamish about going to the surgery or, like me last week, to the dentist, just give a moment’s thought to the poor unfortunate patients of…
An old advert for tranquillizers and I’m there again at the scene of my illness
Times have moved on I guess since this advert dared show its face – then if the “little woman” was feeling anxious about her lot, her “big man” was advised just to stick a few pills in her. I was…
Gold Teeth are not gold teeth – they are grillz and they are extremely cool.
Now I like to think of myself as being as cool as the next man – well as long as the next man is a computer nerd in a woolly hat and hush puppy slip-on shoes. So I was saddened…