Yesterday was one of those perfect late summer days,and my watercolour painting class took off to capture,or maybe not,the beauty of the nearby lake. Although we are now only four pupils the course still started again last week. My teacher congratulated me on my new size block of paper and large brush,and was indeed very [...]
Solomon,was his name and he had big brown eyes but I still didn’t like him.Maybe it was because I was going on seven years old and I felt his bare anatomy not very nice, especially as he peed over the carpet when he got excited. A brown and black shorthaired Dachshund or sausage dog as a lot [...]
When I was small I asked my Father what the difference was between the Tory and the Labour Party in British government.He gave me an answer that satisfied a childs mind. “The Tories help the rich people in the country,Labour help the poor” London has now voted against “red” Ken Livingston ,who has been Lord [...]
My Father liked to grow roses.When I was still in my first decade we lived in the county of Surrey in England,there they said the sandy soil was particularly good for roses. One of his favourites was a rambler that he grew from a cutting taken from a bush belonging to his Mother,there it transformed [...]
A State Visit to England always entails a lot of work when it comes to getting the brass polished, but what was shown yesterday for the visit of President Sarkozy of France and his new wife,- more well known for nude portraits, seemed to me as a Brit, and despite everything a Royalist, a little [...]
Soon it will be time to wear “The Green” again. And as usual tears will come to my ears when I hear this song; Oh, Danny boy,the pipes,the pipes are calling, From glen to glen and down the mountain side. The summers gone,and all the flowers are dying, Tis you,Tis you must go and I [...]
I do love shoes, I might even be a little irrationally devoted to them but there are quite a few women I believe who think like I do. Of course I can always explain that it has something to do with my past, a father that mended my shoes with leather soles half an inch [...]
“May God bless this ship,and all who sail in her” The families of my parents lived in and around Portsmouth, in England. I suppose I grew up with salt water in my nose. I was born under Pisces which might too have had some influence for my love and respect for the seas. As a [...]
I got my first introduction to the joys of skiing outside of Charring Cross station in London. Invariably one doesn’t live next door to a ski lift so it means transporting whatever you may need with you, and believe me you are going to need a lot. On that cold February morning I was waiting [...]
On the eleventh day of November 1918, at the eleventh hour, the Armistice Treaty that ended the the first World War was signed. They hoped it would be the last. It wasn’t. Next Sunday we will remember those who took part and died in the wars of the last century,and the soldiers who are still [...]
