Ancient Mariner – Going Postal

Sailing my life away (II), part 3

5th July 2022 Ancient Mariner 4968 Comments

I have seen SB’s notice he is running short of articles again and have difficulty doing what I promised last time because I’m still on my land voyage by caravan. I don’t have all my [more…]

Sailing my life away (II), part 2

7th June 2022 Ancient Mariner 2875 Comments

Hello again Puffins. I’ve been pretty snowed under for the last few months with Property Management problems and having been on one of my caravan expeditions for the last few weeks. MY CURRENT LAND-VOYAGE BY [more…]

SAILING MY LIFE AWAY (II), PART 1

12th April 2022 Ancient Mariner 2824 Comments

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AND DISCOVERY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO Descartes is famously quoted as having said “Cogito, Ergo Sum”. His remark was first published in French to reach a wider audience- “Je pense, donc je suis”. [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 35

1st March 2022 Ancient Mariner 4011 Comments

PREFACE The draft for this issue of SMLA was completed on Thursday 23 February 2022 and afterwards I explained in an email to the eldest of my granddaughters that to understand the Ukrainian situation one had [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 34

15th February 2022 Ancient Mariner 3143 Comments

RESPONSES Once again I thank all who read and commented on Part 33 describing my 1997 passage from South West Scotland to Northern Ireland and especially DJM who has shown consistent enthusiasm for this series [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 33

1st February 2022 Ancient Mariner 2801 Comments

RESPONSES Joe Slater is obviously more familiar than I with written Chinese Characters and I thank him for explaining that Zheng He and Cheng Ho were one and the same person. When visiting the museum [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 32

18th January 2022 Ancient Mariner 3182 Comments

RESPONSES AND YARNS There were loads of comments on part 31 including the one from Sparks who enquired whether I had discovered a time machine as I had dated the article Saturday 1 January 2002. [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 31

4th January 2022 Ancient Mariner 3907 Comments

I had hoped to write more about Piracy in SE Asia in this article and illustrate the region with some of my own photos. But as I wasn’t confined to solitary in my own home [more…]

Sailing my life away, part 30

21st December 2021 Ancient Mariner 3460 Comments

I was delighted so many readers have enjoyed my recent accounts of sailing in the north of Scotland and thank DJM for writing – “A life well lived”. I couldn’t ask for a better epitaph [more…]