Think a landlubber life is safer than seafaring?
‘But what if you fell off the yacht so far from home?’ people often ask when talking of my passion for long-distance singlehanded sailing.
Sir Ed steps in to help clear my name
The famous philosopher of long ago, Lao Tzu, has an encouraging message for me today: ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.’
Amazing figs that vanish in the night
Wonderful news! My fig tree, just five years or so old, is in harvest, offering several dozen very tasty figs, full of goodness and not very many calories and all for free.
Can the murdered PC's widow win a retrial?
Will the media attention of the plea by PC Andrew Harper's young widow for a retrial of his murder succeed? Is it possible that widespread publicity could actually succeed in a justice system that is so often seriously unjust?
Waiting for a hair of the killer dog
Not so long ago, the whole idea of what our present-day society waits for impatiently and nervously, the chance to be zapped with the Corona menace, would have seemed madness on a vast scale.
