Kurt of Gerolstein

. 'Where are you, and what are you doing' reads the Christmas message from Dean.on the back.. What indeed. All dead. Dean's Bar,...

Underneath the ballet pictures there are some from the world of variety - I recognise Bud Flanagan, Danny Kaye, Cyd Charisse but who are ...

Oh dear. When you start opening old boxes and files .. Lots and lots of photos of ballet dancers. Mostly unlabelled, but here and there one ...

. Well, I said I'd find a picture to jolly this page up, but I never thought this would surface ... This is a photo of the cast of a lit...

While the Promethean eagle has been tearing at my shoulder, while I have been suffering equally poignantly from the almost-as-painful experi...

I see its two months already since I ‘came out’ and admitted that I’d had a stroke. You might have thought that, given my measured optimism ...

My dear friend Gerry died in Philadelphia today. He was 79, which wasn't bad because he'd never expected .. given his medical histor...

. Since its impossible to get race photos from Australian race tracks, I give you instead the view from my window .. yes, it's chilly au...

I published an article, this week, in the New Zealand Harness Racing Weekly, detailing little Livia’s history and her splendid recent exploi...

. This is a blog ‘By Special Request’ With my recent lack of right-handed volubility, my state of health and horses who win have been the on...

. “Some above average fillies engaged here with the pick of them being the widely drawn, but in-form LIVIA DEGEROLSTEIN (7). She was doing h...

. Yes, the reason that the blog has been dormant for two months is that on 12 February 2011, just three days short of my officially becoming...

Dreaming on about that fortieth win as a race-horse owner, got me thinking back to the very first of the 34 triumphs to date. I looked in my...

and in with the new. Will it be any different? What will it bring ..? Something nice – really nice -- would be most welcome .. I wish … oh n...

- It is three years now since Jack and I started our ‘Eurokiwi’ adventure in New Zealand, by breeding both my trotting mares, Gwen and her d...

. Spring gives place to summer, and Gerolstein is a blaze of colour ... the gardens which Wendy tended during the winter are now bursting wi...

In forty years of attending musicals all round the world, I have been to the theatre in Christchurch just five times. Last night was the f...

. A month now I’ve been back at Gerolstein… A whole springtime month, filled with the usual kind of spring cleaning, and of course the sprin...

Silent scream. I have flown from Berlin, Germany, to Christchurch, New Zealand. It took me 42 hours from door to door. It was (with occasion...

. The Berlin season rose to its utmost height on Sunday. The occasion? ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Kurt!’, a banquet hosted by those celebrated Berli...