In airports, you are processed from one unsmiling robotic functionary to another. As in a penitentiary you are given a number, scrutinised, placed under constant surveillance and processed through the system. Typically, you’re in the airport longer than you are in the air.
THE SEA WIND’S KISS The kiss of the wind that I love best, Has the tang of the open sea, But the warm moist air that breathes the west, Is the wind that sets me free. Where a man may go to the farthest shore, Yet return by […]
Goodbye Deutschland. The Schlössle-Bier brewery was founded in 1690 in Neu-Ulm and was owned by the same family for over 130 years. The owner explained the closure by blaming the unprofitability of production and falling beer sales. One of Bavaria’s oldest breweries, Schlössle-Bier, will close due to losses […]
If you are described by doctors as a GPO, make out a will; it means ‘Good for Body Parts Only’. To such unfortunates might also be applied the acronym CTD. This means either circling the drain or being certain to die.
Even poor swimmers can stay afloat for days so why do some perish within a few minutes of getting into difficulty? Many swimmers panic when they realise that they have overstretched themselves or been pulled out by the tide or current and are now too far from the shoreline. They quickly exhaust themselves and nature takes its course.
AMAZON BOOKS: ‘Their entire system is rigged. This costs authors income and reputation while favouring others.’ ~ Ted Malloch, author of The Plot to Destroy.
Sir Thomas Beecham, one of England’s great conductors, on finishing his Australian tour was asked by a reporter when he would be returning. He replied: ‘Does anyone ever return to Australia?’
The most enduring love marriage was that of Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti. Described as the most beautiful woman on earth they met when she was sixteen and he was a thirty-seven-year-old married man.
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart. ~ Adam speech, 1883.
This month, the UK decided to release many thousands of prisoners early amid a jail overcrowding crisis, coinciding with hundreds of arrests during anti-migrant protests across the migrant-infested country. PSA President Nick Smart told the conference that the move left the police at the center of a storm not of their making.
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