Here are 40 more photographs – my final selection of pictures that I took over the last three years – if you missed the others look back over each August weekend. Let me know what you thought. Also my poem,…
Jacob Wrestling With An Angel by Alexander Louis Leloir (1844-1884) I have a new poem published tomorrow, Saturday 27th August, on the website Every Day Poets is pretty well what it says on the label, it publishes a new…
That earthquake on America’s East coast didn’t really make it to the front pages of the British newspapers which is a pity because the dramatic event showed true American grit at its most impressive. People didn’t panic, they just came…
I was sad to hear of Jerry Lieber’s death this week at the age of 78 – he was the words guy in that astonishing songwriting partnership Lieber and Stoller who have left a legacy of inspiring, uplifting songs that…
It was my idea and I’ll show that Frenchie. That’s why I came back from another holiday to have a meeting. I have to get the credit for something round here. I have to let everyone know that I thought…
I know it looked lovely with that profusion of flowers from the clematis and passionflower but, it had just got too much so this weekend I had to do the dirty deed….. …..I was out their with my secateurs and…
Here are some more of my photographs in no particular order – I am putting up a selection of 40 every weekend in August: Horace, the garden spider River Ouse, Lewes Lewes flood plain Daffodils Rainy garden on a Spring…
I have always thought that lifeguards were brave people but surely none was as brave as New York’s veteran Long Island lifeguard who, at the age of 61, is suing his employers for age discrimination because they, allegedly, insist that…
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) When, if, people think of the composer Brahms, they remember the man with the big bushy beard. He looks jovial enough here but maybe those eyes are a mismatch for Santa Claus – they are much too…
Rick Perry, American Republican Presidential candidate Hell no! Could he really rally the nation with that salute? Just a note, Rick, watch the body language, OK.