Tribal

Tribal

(May 8 2024) Preface: I wrote this post when I was subject to Election rules, which meant that my election agents would have borne the responsibility for anything inflammatory I might have said and published. I am no longer under election rules. This needs tp be said...
This year’s tulips

This year’s tulips

Here’s a little post about the tulips in my garden. I am still getting to grips with the difference between posts and notes on Substack. Bear with me if I’ve got it wrong. Every autumn I have a conversation with my friend Kiran who does my garden, about the following...
Because they’re family

Because they’re family

(April 15 2024) I feel that I need to mark today’s 2nd anniversary of arriving back on home soil from Hong Kong on a 36 year-old Gulfstream jet. What a journey that was! For context, the approved scheduled airlines for carrying pets between HK and the UK had put their...
Hiatus

Hiatus

(March 24 2024) Statement: As the Liberal Democrats’ London Assembly Candidate for the Boroughs of Bexley and Bromley, and now as the Liberal Democrats’ candidate for the Shortlands Council seat I am subject to stringent electoral law. Anything one says as...
Festival fail

Festival fail

(March 18 2024) I should have known not to rush my Bromley Festival application, and I had the deadline in my diary months ago but of course it was a last-minute rush as everything seems to be these days. Everything has come at once and I had virtually no time to...