Miley Sur – the taxi ride to Om beach
I had to fly down from Shanghai to Mumbai and then a short flight to Goa. We flew via Taipei….
The Blikkaba life
The road less travelled
Christmas Fayre
Christmas. 2022. It is an especially magical Christmas this year for two reasons: we have my mother-in-law staying who we…
Toy box
Guns. 80,000 of them are being handed out to citizens of the Ukraine over the last few days. AK-47s (oh,…
Ionian blues
England is green. And Australia, in the main, is sunset dirt orange. But Greece is blue. There is not a…
And a river runs through it
Wharfedale is my dale. I spent most of my childhood in its fold – living on the valley side, going…
How to have a mid-life crisis – by a real expert (Part 2)
When the going gets tough, the tough go away. My world had collapsed. The death of my business partner and…
The beloved place
It’s that time of year again. Time for our family pilgrimage to a part of England that holds a beloved…
How to have a midlife crisis – by a real expert (Part 1)
A snowstorm rages outside my apartment in the Alpine ski resort of Meribel. I am on the phone to my…
Mazey Day
This coming Saturday it will be Mazey Day in Penzance. I have not been to Penzance for three years, and…
Life’s pleasures – number 3
What I want to know is, when did it become “eccentric” to have a bath? The perpetrator of this odd…