Round-the-worlder Jeanne, 77, home tomorrow
An eager Jeanne Socrates is nearly there, just a few miles from home, but slowed considerably by a teasing breeze that doesn't want to exactly hurry her over the finish line at British Columbia.
Hooray! A new feel good plan for voters
When a tubby fellow - oops, revered leader - rose through the political ranks faster than, well, certain introduced plants do in our gardens, a number of inducements, promises, to wow us were/are offered.
That crazy law gets even crazier
One of the oddest trials involving Tricky Dicky’s drugs laws that I’ve read about in recent times – very recent, in fact, this month - comes from upmarket, educated Cambridge of all unlikely places.
Brilliant 'oldie' Jeanne is nearly there
Circumnavigator Jeanne Socrates, no spring chicken at 77, is almost back at her departure port after sailing round the world via notorious Cape Horn and the Southern Ocean.
327 days alone and Jeanne's still in the grip of danger
Our very brave 77-year-old lady circumnavigator is nearly there, nearly home, but getting rather impatient with disobliging weather.
