Watching a tiny nation welcoming war
You certainly know you’re getting old when the anniversary of a war comes along, a war only luck kept you from being in the front line, and it’s slipped from your memory.
It's time to bring back exercise and fitness
Perhaps one of the most aggravating agonies of the current lockdown is the challenge to fitness.
What on earth (or sea) can I write about?
Where can a fellow who aspires to write a blog find ideas that give birth to exciting accounts like, well, a sort of Treasure Island blog, or a blog in the Dr Zhivago vein, or maybe a smiling blog of a Don Quixote nature?
Sailing to Heaven, but - oh! - where's the port?
Wondering where that place called heaven might be? When it first dominated human thinking, scribes would raise an arm and point. 'Up there,' they'd chant.
Sailing to John's faraway Abba-fest
I was monitoring Sarah Montague’s Radio 4 World at One when a note or two of Abba’s hit Waterloo sent me reliving more than a month of intense drama - followed by its opposite - far back in the yesteryears.
