Wednesday, November 16, 2005
PRAM & BLUE MAN
In London, one has to work really, really hard to get a funny look from passers by. On Saturday, I got hundreds. It all started when I stayed with my friends in Blackheath. A good meal at their house and two bottles of Rioja later, Ian says "Let's go see what we can find in the attic!" So off we go,...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
The City Cymphony
Well, they do say that a change is as good as arrest. One of the great things about being in London, particularly alone and with time on my hands, is that I do things I'd never normally do. The night before last, for example, I stayed over in a penthouse apartment owned by my friend Paul. We went...
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Monday, November 7, 2005
I'M IN LONDON (ENGLAND) TODAY
It's a funny old place. I once lived here for seven years. When I left, I went to South Korea (Asia) and spent three very happy years there, swearing I'd never again return to live in ol' Londone Towne. But, a family tragedy hauled me back to the UK, and a woman - my first wife - hauled me back to...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2005
MY PILES ARE OUT OF CONTROL!!!
It's true! I come into my office every morning, and every morning, it seems, there's a new pile. I did a quick count yesterday. There are four piles on my desk, right now. There are SEVEN piles on the floor around my desk. There's a pile on the windowsill, and there's three on top of the filing...
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Monday, October 31, 2005
Is This Incestuous or WHAT???
I have two really, really good friends - Graham and Dave. We've known one another since the age of three or four, so we go back a long way. I love them both, but I'm so glad I'm not caught up in their funny little scenario that's going on right now. Graham is married to Pam. She's been married...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
DID I MURDER MY SISTER?
There's a retired GP in the UK who has just gone on trial in Teeside Crown Court for allegedly murdering three of his elderly patients in the 1990s. There's no suggestion that he did it for money - as did the notorious and now dead Harold Shipman, who took the trouble of altering his victims wills...
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Monday, October 24, 2005
Where's Noah When We Need Him?
I tell you this much - it's just as well I've been bad with cold this weekend. Because if I'd been busting to get out to the beach, up into the hills, or even out into the garden to cut the grass for the last time this year, I'd have been severely disappointed. Since Thursday, it's been raining. And...
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Friday, October 21, 2005
SNOT STREAMS FROM MY NOSE LIKE A RIVER OF THICK, GREEN TREACLE.
Yes. That's right. I have a cold. And yea, my head doth pound like the speaker stack at a drum 'n' bass gig. And being a man I am, of course, duty bound to exagerate my symptoms in order to gain sympathy and hot toddies. And my body, it doth shiver like that of a shaved penguin. For some reason,...
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
How Often Do You Breathe?
I've spent a substantial part of my life having either meditation, yoga, qi gong or martial arts as a reasonably strong interest and, for a lot of time, an active daily pursuit. I'm a bit ashamed to say that this has not been the case recently, but I will get back to it, sooner or later. The net...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Playing Chess
My Dad taught me the basics of chess when I was a kid, and I've always loved a game, though sometimes months, even years pass when I don't go near a chess board. The time I played the most was living in South Korea, 1993-96. For the first year I shared an apartment in Seoul with a schoolfriend and...
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