Biography
Sailing my life away, part 12
PREFACE REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM Oh dear! 12 April 2021 is the first day we’ve been let out of our cages and I’m frightened. The world outside seems a big, scary and uninteresting place – please [more…]
Biography
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 11
AN OUT OF SEQUENCE REFLECTION There were more than 3,000 comments on Part 10 of my story some 22 hours after it was posted and I think that is probably a number that’s fairly typical [more…]
Arts
Book Review: Some Fantastic Place – My Life In and Out of Squeeze by Chris Difford
This is the story of Chris Difford, a ne’er-do-well written off as ‘backward’ at school who went on to achieve fame and fortune as the founder and lyricist of the band Squeeze. Squeeze had a [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 10
RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON PART 9 and a COVID DIGRESSION Yes FOXOLES I’m afraid you did miss something – perhaps my account was too oblique. The double in South Africa existed only in the [more…]
Arts
Confessions of a campsite courier, Part 3
Il jouait du piano debout C’est peut-être un détail pour vous Mais pour moi, ça veut dire beaucoup Ça veut dire qu’il était libre Heureux d’être là malgré tout Il jouait du piano debout Il [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 9
I still scan comments on an article recently published because I enjoy the opportunity to have a dynamic exchange with folk of widely varying knowledge of the sea in a much less time-consuming way than [more…]
America
Champion in a Man’s World
Marion Hollins was born in 1892 into a world and at a time when “women knew their place”. This, however, was a notion she soundly rejected throughout her tradition shattering life & career. She arrived [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 8
I’d again like to begin by thanking all those who encouraged me to continue this series in their comments on Part 7. Whilst always welcome there is no longer any need to say so from [more…]
Biography
Sailing around the world
We accidentally sailed around the world, but by good luck we survived the Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004. There is currently obsessive talk of death, but on that morning a ¼ of a million people [more…]