On the Amalfi Coast
I’m looking back at some of the photographs I have taken on my Italian holidays over recent years for blogs that I am only just getting down to now. In the summer of 2017, the year before I went to…
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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.…
Hitting the ground running
I’ve been trying to get back to full fitness now for twenty months, nearly two years, after a difficult eight or so years of ill-health. A brain haemorrhage in 2008, and a pulmonary embolism a few years later, in 2013/14,…
It is easy to hide yourself away in Italy’s Gabicce Monte.
I’ve recently returned from, as it’s become, my annual holiday in Italy. There is still so much in that wonderful country that I could see this become a permanent date in my diary – I hope so anyway. This year…
Reanimating legendary taichi master, Yang Chengfu
Yang Chengfu (1883-1936) A friend sent me a video made by the German artist and taichi writer Matthias Wagner which has haunted me for days now. Herr Wagner has made pencil drawings of old photographs of one of China’s legendary…
Paris’ Orangerie Museum and Claude Monet’s secular temple.
Last week, while I was staying in Paris, I visited the Tuilerie Gardens every morning to practice my Kungfu and Taichi – see Monday’s blog. I have been unable to commit to my White Crane Kungfu club for some time…
Wolfie is back on the free weights with a touch of kungfu too – it feels good.
I’ve moved on again at the gym this week with a new programme that sees me graduating back – at last – to free weights. It’s been a long time – pre-haemorrhage days – since I’ve been allowed to get…
Kungfu in an Italian garden
This was my Santa Margherita Ligure home for two weeks on my recent Italian Riviera holiday – I shall miss it. All thanks to my landlord Attilio De Pascalis who showed me round the town in so much detail on…
The Wolf returns to Kungfu again.
After a couple of months of inactivity I am back in my small Lewes courtyard garden doing my martial arts practice and it feels great. It would feel even greater if I was any good at it after all these…
Keeping my Kungfu going anywhere in the World from Southern China to New Jersey, USA
Even though I have been lucky enough to have spent most of the last weeks abroad on holiday, first in Sicily and just recently the USA, I have been on a determined bid to get back into my martial arts…