Modern day travel
I have a friend who writes for the newspapers. He is a journalist and gets commissions to go to places….
The night swim
The boat was moored about 150 metres off the shore and the skipper had gone to bed. She took me…
Pint
Beer. Beer has been companion from the age of sixteen when I first discovered the stuff at Hudson’s the pub…
All the wrong notes
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, secondly as farce. Tragedy because the first time round it shouldn’t have happened. Farce…
The Light of the World
The Russian Orthodox Church keeps the Julian calendar. This means that they run to a timetable 12 days behind the…
The South shall not rise
Holy Hell. A Stars and Bars flag being flown in the central lobby of the Capitol building of the United…
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.” One of the most famous and internationally…
Not so merry Christmas, Mr. Toad.
So this is Christmas, as the Yoko Ono and John Lennon song ‘Happy Christmas (War is over)’ goes. All of…
These foolish things
There is a heartache behind every act of spite. My mother could be very spiteful. You can fill in the…
Wiping your feet on the last era of elegance
There are icons of manhood.