I waited for a day before sending this to all of you. It is less deserved with some of you rather than others but the passage of time has been very unfair and unkind and you all seem so selective with your memories. As I have learned in my life as time passes views of [...]

      Writing and literature has been a problem for me almost all my life. Starting with a very difficult childhood it was when I reached nine and thanks only to an elderly school teacher next door neighbour called Mrs Stanley that I learned to read then. It is no wonder that my father’s [...]

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending [...]

Aviation Week’s Defense Technology International has compiled a summary of all the current and probable conflicts of 2012. The world doesn’t seem like a very nice place right now.

  Incoming eMail A blast from the past an email arrived recently from my Naval School Mercury (now closed) From: Tony Line [mailto:tony@londonswimmingpools.com] Sent: 07 March 2011 13:20 Subject: Hello Dear Mike or is it Michael now, Am glad you have put your details in the magazine, David Parsons mentioned to me a few years [...]

The world seemed to come to an end in August 2011 when I discovered that the owners of the Tradewinds Resort where I was residing were given two days to vacate the establishment or go to prison. The following 48 hours he and his partner stripped the place of everything in the place and although [...]