Kurt of Gerolstein

There’s been a ‘false quietness’ about our little horsey world during these last weeks. Livia and Fritzl working themselves up for a return ...

. It seems only a year or two since I brought home the gangling yearling filly with the giraffe neck and the wonderfully haughty stare, from...

Ganzls of now! Here are Régis and Segolène's daughters: Elena 7 and Lucie 3 And, well, I'm not likely to have human children, am I?...

. When England's Victorian Opera brought out their recording of Lurline , I hailed it as a double success: both as an historical documen...

Or Ganzl. Or, it seems, Gansl. Or, I've just discovered .. Gánsl. For a man who spends a large part of his life, delving into the genea...

. The wonderful Woodend Fire Brigade powers down our driveway at dawn after a frantic phone call ...! Are we burning? No. But Mi...

. A month has gone by since last I blogged .. Not like recent years, eh? No theatres, hotels, restaurants in 2011 The overwhelming topic...

. Eighteen months or so ago, a beautiful peacock made Gerolstein his home. As we watched him parading his glorious tail, up and down on the...

. Brother John popped in from England, and brought mother down from Nelson for a couple of days to Gerolstein... While he was here, ...

. I don't play sweepstakes. I've always felt they were a distasteful hangover from the 'rich man's sport' state of mind ...

. "Snow in my kingdom! A stain upon my grass ..." The babies have never seen snow before, and aren't sure what to do with it. ...

. Last night, on the Gold Coast (of Australia), a three year-old horse curiously named ‘Return of the King’ won a race in grand style. It wa...

I'm in Australia. Sydney. Well, Lane Cove. It's not really a holiday, more a change of air, and a bit of a test to see if my health ...

I couldn’t believe it when the fields went up. I had thought we’d decided that Livia wasn’t quite up to the very best of Victorian fillies. ...

Invalid. Yes, that’s me. And has been for a whole four months now. Last year, at this time, I was swanning round Europe, reviewing opera in...

Another box... A lovely thing.. The complete costume designs by the celebrated Percy Anderson for the Richard D'Oyly Carte production of...

. '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 ...