Not exactly a jury made in heaven
That jury! I was writing yesterday about the seeming attitude of the driving force of the jury - if I might put the stronger personalities into such a bracket. A sort of spirit of Lieutenant Columbo was present. Forget the lawyers' way with innuendos. They'd sort out the baddies.
Call this justice? Tell it to the judge
THERE'S A BELIEF that a malevolent being takes pleasure from taunting us. True, life sometimes seems that way.
Coincidences can happen in twos
STRANGE HOW COINCIDENCES come along in life. I was musing on a really stunning moment from a voyage, an occasion that features in Sailing to Purgatory. I don't want to detract from the pleasure I hope many readers will share when they read of that astonishing find in the most extraordinary circumstances.
Making a Methuselah merry
IT'S AMAZING to reach a Methuselah stage and still find that extraordinary things happen in life. They don't often, of course, and they certainly don't happen quickly. Praying to your lucky stars often takes a bit longer than an Amazon delivery. But, heavens! when they happen! And it's just happened again.