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Sailing my life away, part 2

10th November 2020 Ancient Mariner 5180 Comments

It may interest some readers who commented on my first article to know that I was very conscious of Coleridge’s poem when choosing my pen-name because a few years after the events described here, whilst [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 1

27th October 2020 Ancient Mariner 3655 Comments

This article is the first of what may become a series if it attracts enough interest. It’s title has been inspired by a song performed by the Everly Brothers that was Number One on the [more…]

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