Recent Blogs.- A FANTASTIC FIFTEEN YEARS April 17, 2023
- SPRING IS NATURE'S WAY OF SAYING "LET'S PARTY!" April 11, 2023Well that‘s what the sadly late but irrepressible Robin Williams said. And as I look out of the window and see the unusually tall daffodils, fritillary, hellebore and ranunculi filling the flowerbeds I can see exactly what he meant. It’s as though nature is waving two fingers at winter. From monochrome to a blaze of […]
- ON YOUR MARKS... April 3, 2023On Sunday the Brighton Marathon took place. It passes quite close to where we live and I briefly watched the stragglers, people likely to take six hours or so to finish (or rather less to die, judging by the look on their faces.) Forgive my intolerance of strenuous exercise especially from those ill equipped to […]
- THE DEATH OF READING OR AN OPPORTUNITY? March 27, 2023
- MOTHER'S DAY March 20, 2023It was Mothers’ Day on Sunday. My chance to look back affectionately on my mother who died 27 years ago in 1996 aged 96. It also allows me to reflect on that world two years before Google’s launch. We had “Mad Cow Disease” and overrun hospitals. Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov at chess. John Major’s Conservative […]