Coincidences can happen in twos
STRANGE HOW COINCIDENCES come along in life. I was musing on a really stunning moment from a voyage, an occasion that features in Sailing to Purgatory. I don't want to detract from the pleasure I hope many readers will share when they read of that astonishing find in the most extraordinary circumstances.
Call this justice? Tell it to the judge
THERE'S A BELIEF that a malevolent being takes pleasure from taunting us. True, life sometimes seems that way.
'At last!' I thought ... but not for long
I RECALL thinking 'At last!' when finally the former customs department's botched sort-of investigation that they called Operation Extend reached court.
Not exactly a jury made in heaven
That jury! I was writing yesterday about the seeming attitude of the driving force of the jury - if I might put the stronger personalities into such a bracket. A sort of spirit of Lieutenant Columbo was present. Forget the lawyers' way with innuendos. They'd sort out the baddies.
Judging a jury up close
WHICH IS the most beautiful country in the world? I'd say South Africa, and its gorgeous Cape Province is every bit as stunning from the sea as on land. But it has an odd legal system, Roman-Dutch law in which fate is decided by judges and never by twelve good men and true.
