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LENT REVIEW.

It was the beginning of Lent yesterday; or to be precise Ash Wednesday in many of the Christian calendars. Custom, (all devised by man), encourages a series of actions for those who...

Thanks buddy. Take care.

PASSION.

As lay in bed that early February morning, the chaos of thoughts he had grown to expect as normal first evolved and then dissipated in his mind. In a way he did not fear the process;...

"Ah." Good point. "Mmmm". "What, what."

Wishing all the staff of Admin & all contributors best wishes for Christmas.

Now we have past the Winter Solstice I'm looking forward to : brighter days, sunshine, travel and green fingers in the...

Saying 52.



“His disciples said to him, “Twenty-four prophets have spoken in Israel, and they all spoke of you.” He said to them, “You have disregarded the living one who is in your presence,...

Hi Danik

Actually, I did manage to get away to Vietnam for 30 days. Quite a salutary experience, as I was living with a Vietnamese family of twelve people down south on the Mekong Delta. It...

It was lodged somewhere in his memory, the phrase, "antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." (ancient times were the youth of the world.) If so, then presumably, that early stage signified the embryo and...

Excellent.

Short punchy dialogue.

Loved especially the bit about Pam's fingers.

The last paragraph was a gem in its perception.

Your style buddy is getting a bit more incisive & its...

Thats because you are an old romantic buddy.

Take care.
M.

Chapter 5. Rum.

I suppose I received my initial education in rum in one of the Mecca’s of that spirit, namely Jamaica. Purely by accident actually. I had at the time wanted to escape an English...

Hi Sancho

I agree with your observation of Canadian / American treatments of each other; but with one exception. Americans working overseas I found are akin "frontier" Americans; the type you want...

Chapter 4. Our Canadian Cousins.

I worked for two years in Fort McMurry in Alberta, on the Oilsands Complex. Never experienced cold like it, especially through the long dark winters. It was so...

Thanks Sancho.

In fact you have just refreshed my memory of drinking with said members of the law in an unofficial police bar in Montego Bay. Yet another chapter!!!!

Take care. Bail in the post.

Chapter 3. Reflections.

I was lucky enough in my job to have to work and live in many locations worldwide. And drink there too.

Some were a bit of a bummer. Saudi, where alcohol was forbidden...

Chapter 2. Shaken Not Stirred.

Which brings us with effortless ease to that jewel in the cocktail crown, the “Dry Martini.”

Forget 007 for the moment. It is irreverent as to whether this...

Thanks buddy. All's well this end.

Cocktails At Noon.

Chapter 1. Introduction.

If you ever get into those old silver screen movies; and working on the assumption that the reader is not averse to the pros and cons of the...

Was the flying self levitation Tailor? I used to do that, (almost consciously!), in my dreams at an earlier age: but not now. I could even direct where I was to travel across continents.

Recently,...

If I wanted prose I invariably gravitated to Gibbon in "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire." But now in my estimation there is a new kid on the block; namely Thomas Carlyle's book " The French...

Interesting piece DATo, especially regards the films.

One of the ones I have watched, (invariably tanked up) so many times, was "Schlinder's List." The book was good; but by Harry, what a...

Hang in there buddy.

There must surely be a turning point.

Best wishes.
M.

Thinking last night that there was damm all on the TV here in the UK, I chanced upon a Wimbledon tennis match between Harmony Tan & one of the greats, Serena Williams. Over three hours in one hell of...

Get well soon tailor. Family as well.

There is a new Omicron 5 or 6 ? going about at the moment which is apparently more virulent.

But thanks for the heads up. I've had 4 shots, which has made...

Continuing on the food obsession theme on my part, initiated by the Covid lockdown, I decided to read up a bit, regarding the historical context.

Where better to start, than an aside on Greek...