Lady Luck favours our 76-year-old sailing star
The gods are certainly with our senior yachtslady, Jeanne Socrates, 76, as she battles her way across the Tasman Sea to pass south of New Zealand.
Careful, grandfolk, with the baby talk
Considering the pride in our British ability to mock ourselves, how astonishingly strange that the Beeb, of all wise influences in life, should consider that a joke about royalty is verboten.
Jeanne, 76, prays for wind in the world's wildest ocean
Brit sailing star Jeanne Socrates, a mere 76-year-old, sailing for more than seven months in her circumnavigation is - quite remarkably - being dogged by light conditions.
A naïve and sentimental cyclist, bless 'im
Hat’s off to the cyclist who forgives bike thieves who snatched his dearly loved machine – though I’m surprised to see those words emerging from my keyboard.