A Tolerable Toast – Burns’ Night
Caledonian Club, London, 11 February 2005 Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Lords and Ladies, Highlanders and Rabbie-like Lowlanders, Waiters and Waitresses, … and uhm, ahh yes, native English people.
Category Life As We Live It
Francophilia – Selected Translation Tidbits from Le Royal Tour
Selected Translation Tidbits from Le Royal Tour Restaurant menu by the Eiffel Tower, 23 Avenue La Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris, France, +33 1 45 51 38 04 All entries are absolutely true – heck you couldn’t make this up – i.e. the first…
Barging About In The Solent
[This article was published by Yachting World, on the official Cowes site (www.cowesweek.co.uk) – Monday 4 Aug 2003] Barge matches date back to the late 1700s, even if their meetings were not known by that name then, but it took…
Teach Yourself Germlish Racing On A J-24
Lesson 1 – On the Boat/An Bord
Dropping The Hook To Win The Race
[This article was published on the official Cowes site (www.cowesweek.co.uk) – Monday 5 Aug 2002]
Middle Aged, Middle Of The Fleet, And Loving It – Kiel Week 2002 (Kieler Woche)
Sailors are only young once – for this sailor it’s once a year at Kiel Week.
Fifty Ways To Cut Your Mustard
Those who know me, know my weakness: “The problem is all inside your bread”, she said to me,
Revolving Door Etiquette
As one of the few people, other than Chuck Norris, who can slam a revolving door, imagine my delight when a major concern over etiquette is finally resolved:
Haxen Maria
HAXEN MARIA Pfersdorfer warten schon morgens