Today we buried my father ( Read more... )

As some of you know, my dad suffered an unexpected and severe brain haemorrhage two weeks ago. He died yesterday evening without having regained full consciousness ( Read more... )

My father is now in his third week of lying in a hospital bed unable to do much more than raise his head from the pillow. He is definitely improving though, and even the beard (he refuses to let anyone shave him) is starting to quite suit him ( Read more... )

This summer my yard isn't looking too bad... the slugs don't like this dry weather (or my geraniums) very much. Lucy seems to appreciate my efforts...


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Well, it's many years since I've been up at Nine Ladies Circle with the last of last year's 'shrooms to see the sun rise on Midsummer's Day... or even up at dawn at all. But last week I decided to vary my daily lunchtime stroll to Morrison's sandwich kiosk by cutting across the old Garden Festival site behind the office building where I work. ( Read more... )

One moment zipping along at a mile a minute in a climate controlled, eight speaker surround sound, insulated cocoon... the next, clambering out into an isolated wilderness of broken glass and decaying road kill, inappropriately dressed and all alone in the dark...


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So very nearly Angelina Jolie... but as it turns out I'm Keef Richards! I think I can live with that...


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It appears that I have only visited 4% of the countries on Earth...


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