Perhaps one answer to family secrets
An added aggravation about the death of friends, family, especially parents, is that they don’t have an answer service, and seem permanently unable to come to the phone.
Dazzled by a bright new light
Cycle to the shops, walk down the road, even dash from the car to the front door when visiting friends, and it is hard, difficult, almost impossible to believe that Spring is almost here.
Atishoo! Busy old Ironic Fate
It’s a time of anniversaries in the life of this grounded circumnavigator. The other day, I invited readers to my very first sail after an extensive swallowing-the-anchor voyage across and down through the Atlantics exactly twenty years.
Paul goes down to the sea again ... after 20 years
This lapsed sailor looked at the remarkably smooth water waiting and wondered. Would I enjoy it? Will two decades of land-lubbering have wobbled my sea legs, will I remember how to steer by tell tales alone?
