Monthly:January 2017
Growing up in rural, southern England, I got used to narrow, winding roads. My first exposure to long, dead straight roads was in Libya, but I would usually fly deep into the desert so it was during my time in South Africa that I really started to become conscious of them. The long, straight road was at first liberating. Free from the twists and turns I could see just where I was going. But they soon became tedious, because I […]
Well, 2016 is behind us at last, now on to 2017! 2016 was not my personal favorite year, with my mother passing away, my incurring a significant reduction in income, my finding out I need both knees replaced because of arthritis and then, the final kick in the teeth, my refrigerator failing about an hour after the appliance spares shops closed for the holiday. Come back on Tuesday. Yeah, right. But there were highs as well. The most uplifting being […]
