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Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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May 17, 2023 at 2:34pm
May 17, 2023 at 2:34pm
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An Historical Thought

Ah, the delights of YouTube for the carefree wanderer. I can’t help smiling at the irony of Mark Knopfler, in a concert in Seville, launching into his song, Privateering. Oh, granted that his lyrics are careful enough to mention the coast of Barbary rather than the Spanish Main, but don’t mention the war, man, don’t mention the war.

What war? Well, I admit it was a long time ago, yet we still remember Elizabeth. The First, that is.




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