I go back to see my neurologist, my brain doctor, next Friday. I haven’t seen her for sixth months now about my expected full recovery from the brain haemorrhage I suffered two years ago. The plan is that she will…
I have been thinking about those fine American birds, turkeys, today when many of my American friends will be sitting down to some of them served up on a platter to celebrate Thanksgiving. I am not sure how much the…
We have had a full moon this week and, well why not just say it, I have loved it. Walking around Lewes, here in the United Kingdom, and looking up at the sky at night, I have felt, well, happy.…
There is a lot of fuss in the USA, I see, about those new body scanning machines at airports – we haven’t introduced them yet in Britain. People are objecting that too many rude bits can be seen when you…
If you like growing tulips then November is a bit like Christmas. it is the time when exciting brown boxes arrive with the post with that excellent label: Perishable Plant Material. I still get a thrill out of opening parcels…
Those men with strimmers that I spotted a couple of days ago did return to manage the vegetation on Brack Mound, the principal view from my study window here in Lewes in the UK. It had not been cut since…
It was a wet but exciting night in London on Wednesday. I was on my way to see the English band Foxes! performing at the cavernously big Shepherd’s Bush Empire theatre in London – their biggest gig so far and,…
The Irish piggy bank is empty I have never been any good at money. I am not proud of this but at least I am being honest here. I find numbers difficult as I have written here before and often…
So Prince William Windsor, the second in line to the British throne is going to marry his long-term girlfriend, Kate Middleton, the fun-loving daughter of self-made toy merchandising millionaires. They certainly seem like a happy couple and they are undoubtedly…
There were signs of life up on Brack Mound yesterday morning when a man in a hard hat appeared on the summit with a strimmer. Regular readers will know that this ancient man-made fortification and probable burial mound is the…