Biography
Sailing my life away, part 19
RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 17 There were some great comments on Part 17 so thanks to every-one for that. There are two in particular and one question I’d like to pick out and reproduce. I [more…]
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Arts
Sailing my life away, part 18
A SUMMER BREAK I am now away from home for about six weeks and have suspended for this issue a continuation of the story of Alchemi’s 1997 Voyage covering the leg from Oslo to Bergen. [more…]
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Sailing my life away, Part 17
PIRACY – 1 I have promised to write something about piracy in the form of shortish mini-essays embedded within articles about my sailing life. Here’s my first effort. The word piracy and its associated [more…]
Biography
Take Your Daughter to Work Day
Prologue by Roger Ackroyd Recently located in the piles of papers here at Ackroyd Towers was a copy of a report made by Lily Ackroyd on her “Take your daughter to work day” assignment for [more…]
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Sailing my life away, part 16
REFLECTIONS ON PIRACY I appreciated the warm reception given to Part 15 from several people and thank them all for reading and commenting on it. I especially wish good fortune and happy sailing to [more…]
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My Time in Parliament
Having left for an idyllic childhood in a Leicestershire village at the age of 18 months, I returned to London in 1968 when I was posted to the MoD’s Army Contracts HQ in Southwark as [more…]
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Sailing my life away, part 15
COMMENT ON THE COMMENTS ON PART 14 A few readers said they appreciated my responses to comments on Part 13 so I do the same again for Part 14. Bobo provided a link for Foxoles [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 14
RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 13 Once again I thank those who commented on Part 13 and particularly the three or four who correctly pointed out my mistake in inverting the description of the speed [more…]
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Sailing my life away, part 13
A METEOROLOGICAL DIGRESSION Life on a small yacht is lived much closer to nature than most people in developed countries usually experience. That is particularly true about weather in its many forms and I’d like [more…]