Education
The Party’s Over, It’s Time to Call it a Day
There are many reasons why I took on the job as caretaker. The school is just across the road, the pay is reasonable for the hours worked, I am, technically, my own boss and I [more…]
Retirement
Education
The Party’s Over, It’s Time to Call it a Day
It never entered my mind that I would be doing this job for… checks retirement date …more than 15 years… It was around March and Mrs C. was working at the school as a dinner [more…]
Economics
Prior Savings Is the Ethical Requirement for Retirement
Retirement is seen almost as a right by most people in the West, especially America and Europe. Make it to your sixties and most people expect to retire from the daily grind of earning a [more…]
Arts
A Postcard From India; Goa
Another long day of travelling, including two longish taxi rides and two internal flights, via Hyderabad, saw us arrive in Cavelossim. The journey to the airport in Goa, through the last of the “rush hour” [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 35
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…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 34
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…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 32
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…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 31
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…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 30
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…]