Admiral Nelson suffered from seasickness right until he met his Trafalgar. When he met other seasick sailors, he’d tell them “If you don’t want to get seasick, go and sit under a tree.” This approach ensured he died a figure of nautical, rather than arboreal, legend.
Common sense might tell tell us, if you can’t see, […]
There are some good things about the desert. For one, in the desert ‘you can remember your name, ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.’ Well, it’s true if you’re in a early-seventies soft rock band and you’re singing about the Mojave.
The desert has also been the subject of good TV […]
A couple of years ago I was roped in to clean the leaves from gutter around my elder sister’s house. At one stage, fumbling with the trowel I momentarily lost my balance, the aluminium ladder clattered against the wall and the cry went up “Health and Safety!” Luckily I stayed on my 10 feet low […]
Abduction. It’s every parent’s nightmare, and probably more so now than at any time since Genghis Khan and his hordes were out raping, pillaging…and abducting. Though it’s debatable whether more children really are snatched nowadays, but you’d certainly think so from reading the papers. Madeleine, Holly and Jessica… The fear is palpable. Last week on […]
