by Ryan Clement AS WE HAVE ENTERED, FOR SOME, THE FINAL MONTH OF YEAR, and for some of my readers, the beginning of the festive season, although for my American readers, the season may have started last Thursday (Happy Thanksgiving!), I thank you all for your messages and comments over the year. IT HAS BEENContinue reading “Happy End of Year Month”
Category Archives: Art
Mr. Jimmy Cliff
This is a short blog on the late singer, Mr. Jimmy Cliff (30 July 1944 – 24 November 2025)
Traitors!
by Ryan Clement AFTER READING A FEW CHAPTERS of Kamala Harris’ “107 Days,” yesterday, I read parts of my The Observer (UK Sunday paper) before settling down to do some prep for the coming week. Then I recalled at a recent dinner party, the host mentioning ‘Celebrity Traitors.’ I am not a big TV fanContinue reading “Traitors!”
Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive? UNPRODUCTIVE, without any question of doubt unless planned. I rarely have the luxury of planned lazy days, so unplanned days leave me thinking about what I could or should have done, or what I could or should be doing! 🤔😩 The only consolation, which does notContinue reading
How I choose the Music 🎶🎼🎵
by Ryan Clement A FRIEND of mine asked me yesterday, how do I choose the music for my videos? After a little – not long – reflection, I told her it was instinctive. I just feel what is right for me, and simply add it. LIKE MANY OF US, I love music. I mentioned inContinue reading “How I choose the Music 🎶🎼🎵”
Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸
by Ryan Clement SOMETIMES, the pictures and videos simply speak for themselves. https://youtube.com/@ryanclementtravel UNTIL next time! 👋🏾 Copyright © Ryan Clement 2025
Central Market
by Ryan Clement I DON’T HAVE fond memories of markets and marketplaces because I had to pull the shopping trolley on a Saturday morning along North End Road, Fulham, London. MY LATE MOTHER would insist I transported our food in the checkered brown cloth trolley with which I dreaded being seen with by any ofContinue reading “Central Market”
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know!
What would your life be like without music? THERE ARE TWO WAYS to approach this question. One is there has never been music, so it never existed, in which case you don’t know what you don’t know, so you can’t miss it or conceive what it would be like without something you can’t conceive inContinue reading “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know!”
Like Father, Like Son
by Ryan Clement IN ‘A writer’s diary for this summer,’ I wrote, “THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT that when the book is published, I would associate it with these Diary blogs and Kos even though 95% of it was written outside the Greek island’s jurisdiction…I HAVE THE SAME FEELING whenever I think of Like Father. It was a sunnyContinue reading “Like Father, Like Son”
“In Our Time“
by Ryan Clement ‘Having presented well over 1,000 episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg has made the decision to step down from In Our Time following the series which aired earlier this year. Melvyn has presented every episode of In Our Time since the series first launched in 1998,’ wrote theContinue reading ““In Our Time“”
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