Well, I never thought the day would come when I would be asked to write something to be performed on the stage, but that is exactly what happened earlier this year. I recieved an email from the Murcia region drama group to write a poem about holidays... Read more

Do things that go wrong always come in threes, does it mean when you reach three you can breathe easily again? Having had several mishaps over the last week, I'm ready to go into hibernation. No. 1 It all started last Monday, my furniture arrived f... Read more

I just feel so incensed, that I had to put pen to paper, or rather finger to keyboard. How can these so called rioters, when interviewed, justify what they have done.   "We needed the money. We followed the others.  We haven't got a cha... Read more

Having just got home from shopping, sitting down to enjoy a nice cuppa, it struck. The first earthquake. It was 4.4 on the Richter scale. The house, ornaments, cutlery and crockery, were all shaking. Less than two hours later there was a more fierce... Read more

It's that time of year again, new beginnings, resolutions and hope. Last year I said I would try to eat healthily, stop smoking, be more tolerant and try to write more. How did I do? Not terribly well. I do try to eat healthily most of the time w... Read more

TW3. It's not as many of the older members may remember, That Was The Week That Was, with Bernard Braden and the rest of the team.  It is my week in 3 parts. P1. Productive. P2. Disaster. P3. Agonising. P1. Having been away for so long... Read more

Having been a follower of the so sedate and gentlemanly game of cricket, I was shocked to turn on the television today and hear of the arrest of a man involved in betting on the game. Over the years there have been several incidents, the most wide... Read more

Is it because I've been on holiday? Am I just getting too old?  Am I just lazy? Where has it gone? I've lost my motivation. Not long ago, I would lie awake at night, compose a poem, plan an article that had just occurred to me, invent charact... Read more

It's two months since my last blog, and what a couple of months it's been. We came back to 'freezing Britain' at the end of March. Snow still on the ground, and more followed. It was still laying on the Brecon Beacons in mid April. I was  not lo... Read more

I haven't written in my blog for quite some time. Been busy organising the closing up of my Spanish home, booking the ferry, saying goodbye to all my friends and of course, the long drive back to this freezing (or so it seems to me) country. ... Read more