Seafaring talk? Not a chance
I was noting a lack of interest in sailing and boating among the munchers tucking in at a crowded Brighton Marina this week. Brighton is where my circumnavigation - and more - began. I expected, of course, conversations on all sides to be about sails and racing techniques, and the best global sailing routes.
A good side to every story
Every story has two sides, so we learn in life, even if the lesson came rather late for me. I had just retired from the sea, and on a leisurely holiday with my young daughter and my gifted fiancee, called on friends whose address I used as a maildrop when at sea.
They promised to do good, and they are
If the land of your birth does the dirty on you, destroys your reputation, steals your property and your money, and sends you to jail for a longer term than an airline bomber, knowing all the time that the charge is false, you could be excused for doubting that the country has a conscience or a heart. And yet, it seems, it has a heart at least.
Upheavals of a bathroom nature
An upbringing in the Antipodes teaches you all about upheavals by Nature. The oceans do ittoo, of course, only destruction out there beyond the horizon has a limited life.
