The phone craze that zapped five million
Remember those old moralist tales where characters like struggling cobblers barely survived in spite of the skill of producing beautiful and fashionable boots for sweet darlings of the rich.
Our crazy phone craze redefines 'craze'
Remember holding your first mobile phone? You can probably recall instantly the year that was, the make, almost hear againl that distinctive ringing sound, and a quite few other aspects of its amazing capabilities, too.
Gutted, but Jeanne cooks up a beef and balti treat
Intrepid solo mariner Jeanne Socrates is acting wisely (comments one who knows) and is getting back to safer latitudes, not that the term 'safer' could really apply very much down there in the Roaring Forties.
The going's about to get tougher for Jean
Good old sea dogette Jeanne Socrates is doing well on her circumnavigation bid, though a little more slowly now as she edges into what I found to be the wildest part of the wildness of the deep south, around Antarctica.
