I love this amazing photograph taken by the Dominican photographer Arun Madisetti of his son swimming with this giant creature, a sperm whale. It will remind me to put human beings into perspective next time I feel too cocky about…
The blossom has opened on my little cherry tree here in my Lewes garden in Southern England and it is an appropriate moment to remember Japan in this their catastrophic year. I wonder if they will be able to celebrate…
Red Wolf 1287 I am keeping Red Wolf 1287 in my thoughts today because I hear she is removing hair from her belly. Now that is a good sign, it means that Red Wolf 1287, an inmate of Durham Zoo…
It is National Coffee Week here in the UK and we are being encouraged to enjoy the wonders of that most luxurious and civilised of drinks. If you are an unreformed caffeine addict like me though, you will need no…
I had breakfast with Neil Johnson, my kungfu instructor (see links for White Crane Fighting Arts) this morning, as has been usual now on a Monday morning for nearly two and a half years. During that time I have gone…
I have gone back to school. Well, not exactly. I have bought myself a book called The Making Of A Poem, A Norton Anthology Of Poetic Forms by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland (publishers W.W.Norton & Company) and I hope…
Here are a couple of new photographs taken with my new Hipstamatic app on my iPhone on a wet spring morning in Lewes, UK. A bit of rain and a small gust of wind brought one of my camellia blooms…
I am sorry if you are bored by my latest obsession, but yesterday it was raining here in Lewes, UK and i couldn’t resist going out with my iPhone and having another play with the Hipstamatic app which turns quick…
I was at a poetry reading last night where there was a lot of Spring poems. It was obvious that a number of the people there are thrilled by the joys of Spring and up-lifted by its signs, daffodils, new…
A photographer friend, David Stacey (see Links), told me about this complex and arty type of photography where you spend our in a dark room breathing in poisonous chemical fumes and getting body hairs into the liquid by mistake all in the…