I’m a Berliner now
I was in Germany in April 2023, I’d been to Leipzig for the Bach 300 festival before catching a train for ten great days in Berlin. A city I last visited in the late 1990s, just a few years after…
Tag Martial arts
The second Covid-19 lockdown here in the UK allows me to work at staying fit.
The hot days of the summer lockdown here in the UK have passed but now it’s second time round for the covid-19 precautions and, in classic English autumn style, it has been raining and, more importantly, it has got cold.…
My 25 pushups challenge – every day for 25 days.
In July this year, while the UK was still locked down, I was challenged by a friend on Facebook to do the 25 Day Pushup Challenge and, because I can’t resist challenges, I did it. The idea was to do…
The Equinox is telling us to get back our equilibrium.
With only one day to go before the Autumn Equinox when we have an equal balance between lightness and darkness, I have been trying to focus on balance and equilibrium. After a few weeks now of muscle pains and viral…
When neighbours are just good friends.
Let me introduce you to my neighbours Harvey and Liz who are not just good friends as that Australian soap opera tells us, but they are also fellow martial arts enthusiasts in spite of the fact that they practise taekwondo…
Saturday 23 February 2008
The last day of Kungfu training in China…part of me feels really disappointed…another pleased to have got through so far and another one over the moon that I won’t have to keep rolling on my injured hip. We went down…
Friday 22 February 2008
Today was the first day since the long holiday and therefore the first day of the new school term so our class was moved from the morning to the afternoon. I woke up feeling pretty battered but full of that…
Thursday 21 February 2008
Sitting here tonight in my hotel room, it sounds like gunfire has broken out all over the city. Actually it is the end of the Spring Festival and fireworks and firecrackers have been exploding for hours and, 10.30 pm there…
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Back at the school for 8.00 this morning for the second day with Master Lin, the Chinese dog style Kungfu master. The fact that he and his son and student were so friendly and enthusiastic yesterday made all the difference…
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Well today was the day I have been dreading and been really excited about…the beginning of our Dog Style lessons with our second Kungfu master…also called Master Lin….. sometimes I think there are only a handful of words in China…