Another great moment in British television drama came to an end over the weekend. For two long, here in Britain, we have waited for a series to grip our imagination with, not just an absorbingly interesting plot but with a…
It may be only little but my small town garden in Lewes, England, is telling me that there are loads of things to be doing out there. What happened to that February weeding session? Why are there still old pots…
I have stopped wearing that support on my left knee and the sprained ligament seems a lot better so I am back with the hope that I get training again. It was a stupid kungfu injury – I was doing…
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton It is a sad day for everyone who loved Elizabeth Taylor who has died aged 79. It is sad for the rest of us too because she was certainly a fine actress, an extraordinarily beautiful…
Aristotle (384BC – 322BC) I was going to write about Aristotle this morning because I have been absorbed in the American moral philosopher Michael Sandel’s Harvard lectures on Justice which have been broadcast here in Britain on our minority channel,…
As yesterday was the first day of Spring, my hometown of Lewes in Southern England decided to dress for the occasion with bulbs and blossoms decorating walls and gardens. The sun shone all day and I was suddenly extra proud…
I don’t know where you were on Saturday night but, just in case you didn’t notice, the Earth enjoyed a close-up view of the full Moon. It was what is known as a Perigee Moon, the first once since 1993,…
I might be the only person that I know who likes daffodils in the rain. I particularly enjoy the smell of my wet narcissi, those highly perfumed early daffodils, that sit outside my French windows here in Lewes in the…
So the No-Fly-Zone United Nations Resolution went through. I was against it, as I wrote yesterday but what do I know. The good news was that no country used the veto and only the usual ones abstained and that the…
What is a no-fly zone? It would be nice if it were a way to keep flies off our picnic but I don’t think this is what our British prime minister, David Cameron means. having said that, does he really…