Monday, October 4, 2010

Heavenly grrrl power!

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Brazil. Is the mother goddess giving a helping hand? In Brazil, Dilma Rousseff ; in Australia Julia G...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Astrologer's Serendipity

Martin Luther declares war on the Catholic Church. copyright Trustees of the British Museum. Serendipity - what a lovely word. I've jus...

Monday, September 27, 2010

A Fairytale Ending for Milibands

Once upon a time there was a miller who had three sons. When he died his oldest son took the mill, his middle son took the donkey, and that ...

Friday, September 24, 2010

How being an astrologer is like being gay

Because at some point you have to come out of the closet,  being an astrologer has something in common with being homosexual. "What do ...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Lady Gaga vs Madonna

Can you believe the shoes? Lady Gaga has finally sauntered onto my middle-aged radar by wearing that outrageous dress. Wow - it's punk a...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The subtle knife

Whenever I go past the alley of trees in this picture, I think of how somewhere between them may be the Sunderland Avenue, North Oxford, Sum...

Saturday, September 18, 2010

A little girl names the dark lord

Hades (Pluto) Oxford is a small town with a famous university in the middle of England. But it's much more than that too. It's the ...