Burcot Grange (above) built in 1890 and my home for a while as a young child. The blog has been down for the past few days due to some ki...

My bicycle resting in the sun today. I was listening to the radio today as I was restringing my guitar and there was an Englishman called Ro...

A typical view of Venice Beach. Venice, in California, is so named, I suppose, because there are canals there with very nice houses on their...

Here we have 5 of us - I am in the centre at the back. Aged 18 the day before I was going on my SAS selection course I was forced into a...

Some members of the Royal Family - pretending to be normal. This won't make any sense but there was such a big response to the last p...

I hear NBC have scaled back on their coverage of the Royal Wedding because they have found out that Prince William and his future bride, Kat...

The journey back to Los Angeles was a bit of a pisser to say the least; it really is no pleasure to fly these days and having to change flig...

The 2 'C' words. I'm at Heathrow Airport at the moment; my word processor, OpenOffice , has Heathrow down as a spelling mista...

At the moment I am on a high speed train speeding through the great green expanse of England – or will be soon – we have just left London Li...

The original Dubliners Here I am again – thinking; well I was thinking about something and what it is that identifies us to where we come fr...