Again with the coincidences . Here I am, boring restaurant story done and dusted, busily researching the next one about Stalag Luft III, w...

I'm doing something a bit different today: still writing (and not tempted to be doing anything else, on this wet, cold and windy day) ...

I was just doing some coarse gardening, hacking down giant canna lilies with a machete (using my right arm ! Still can't salute Hit...

My new passport arrived today, so my old faithful has now ceased to be, after 10 years and goodness knows how many air-miles and some se...

Although Auckland has never been half-hearted when it comes to rain, the city outdid itself a couple of days ago, when we had a downpour t...

Poor old Lonesome George has died: a heart attack, the report says. More like a broken heart - being 100 years old and the last of your sp...

Sabrage: who knew there was a word for it? It's the act of removing the top (not just the cork) of a champagne bottle with a sabre, an...