The day after Alicante was a sea day as the ship headed north towards France. The twins happily went off to the reef where they had made friends with nearly everyone there. The adults decided [more…]
So we go back to the 1960s and Tom Driberg. A notorious and flamboyant homosexual when such behaviour was likely to get you a jail sentence. Considering he was an ugly so and so I [more…]
One of the most endearing traits of Western society is what we do in our spare time. The variety is enormous ( I’ll write more about this in future) – some are individual and some [more…]
G-P correspondent AW Kamau responds to Armin Rosen’s Minneapolis dispatches, noting the Kenya connection. Local Kenya taxi driver seeking asylum in Canada used a Kenya broker (Kalenjin, same tribe as Ruto) witnessed numerous Somalis at [more…]
I have an old Collins Sporting Diary from 1971. Quite why I have kept it, I don’t know. In amongst the entries about how bossy my sister was, that I’d asked Chi-Chi to go to [more…]
Something thing you occasionally hear when earwigging in cafes/pubs/supermarkets is “It just isn’t that big of a deal,” or “It just won’t get to that,” or “Why do you always think the worst of everything?”. (‘Ow mooch ?” in Yorkshire). [more…]
Friday 2nd January – at sea (mostly) The sea seems to have calmed down overnight. It is still rather windy, but the sea state has changed to moderate, with a long, slow swell, and it [more…]
The Chagos Islands were first discovered by the Portuguese hence the names of the various islands. The first people to make use of the islands were the French when they created coconut oil plantations in [more…]
I want to introduce a lot of modern poetry but am constrained by the copyright rules and, due to lack of time, I am not able to do much at present. I expect to be [more…]
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