Monthly Archives: September 2017

The songs of Leonard Cohen have inspired me for so long. Now dead, one of my biggest regrets is never having been to one of his performances. But this regret is dwarfed by the beautiful legacy he left us all … Continue reading →

Just over 5 years ago I started my first blog (2 September 2012). As I have already described, but I want to repeat it here again, the credit for this goes to Lisa, my first daughter, who had just started … Continue reading →

What I write about today is largely based on the dream I had last night. That avoids me being labelled a heretic, a fool or even worse things. Mostly my dreams are surrealistic affairs, loosely based on things from the … Continue reading →

As a small boy, I had a bath once a week. The other days, in the morning after waking up, I stood at the washbasin in the bathroom and used my facecloth to clean my body with warm water and … Continue reading →

It’s a struggle to tell you how I feel today without leaning on clichés. I feel so happy and so very, very proud, and still just a little numb. My eldest daughter, Lisa, married Dylan on Friday 1 September. It … Continue reading →