Midway through February and the rain has come my way, here in Lewes, UK. It might get a guy down, damp feet and water down the back of the neck, but, somehow, when the bulbs are stirring , I…
It was the late comic actor Kenneth Williams who coined the phrase when playing a beleaguered Julius Caesar in one of the Carry On films. “Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!” I knew just what he meant…
Rain, steam and speed (1844) by J.M.W. Turner I haven’t been totally depressed by all the rain falling in these parts over the last couple of months, well, I’m not happy about it but it has made me look for…
Spider-man (2002) with Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire All that stuff about kissing in the rain the other day made some of my readers want more so, sorry to the others, here are some clips from those memorable kissing in…
I’m not American, I don’t live in the United States of America and I have no vote in the 2012 American Presidential elections but I still can’t help gunning for Barrack Obama’s reelection. We have our own rain problems here in…
I was sitting quietly reading the newspapers this morning, well as quietly as you can sit reading the newspapers when a few houses down our road the builder with the electric drill, or is it a saw, continues to turn…
My proper camera got busted in Italy when I jammed the memory card too roughly into it and it is still away with nice Mr Cannon who is mending it for no small amount of money. In the meanwhile, I…
Just in case any of you were worrying that my home town of Lewes was about to turn into the Arizona Desert after all that talk about the great English drought, here is a more typically English look when yesterday…
After a miserably wet weekend here in Lewes, England, the sun is almost shining and, so far, there has been no rain. After the demise of my gladioli under the weight of water, see yesterday’s blog, at least that weirdly…
They were meant to be an injection of striking colour in high summer but my gladioli here in my garden in lewes in the UK, were as slow as the seasonal weather this year and they didn’t bloom until it…