...rages on!

The perils of crossing farmland

Shadowy Reflections

From Poor to Rich - How much sweat it takes to become a billionaire

Proof of Residence

This is Kanyakumari - the southernmost point in India, where the Indian Ocean meets the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

Rising through the ranks at Andersen Consulting in the 1980s one learned the same lesson, which was translated as “After a while the normal people leave.” Clients may be trying to hire firms with only

There’s a great level of uncertainty surrounding whether or not it’s illegal to drive barefoot in the UK, with numerous reasons cited as to why you’re breaking the law if you do so. While these may all

'That is the question.' I did not take any notice of Facebook until I went to India some ten years ago and my somewhat-younger-than-me aunt complained that she couldn't get news to me or of me unless I

Freetown is one of three cities in the world where cobras are endemic. I didn't know that until the British Council sent me a wad of familiarisation documents, before my first trip to Sierra Leone in 1983.

Currently Steemit does not support embedding images in posts. For those of us who wish to post authentic and original photographs directly without posting them elsewhere and then linking to them on Steemit,

I have this theory that our cars say something about us. Particularly the inside of the cars. My last car, a 16 year old Honda,  smelled of compost and garden things. There was black mud in the back

When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin. Einstein said, "What I admire most about your art, is its universality. You do not say a word, and yet ... the world understands you." "It's true", replied Chaplin,

Sick Days

Last week we had a workman in to check the boiler. Now we all know workmen come in different shapes and sizes, hues and natures: This one, Keith, was quite lovely. He actually finished his work and chatted

My friend and mother's sister, Baby, got me thinking. She claimed that, in India, women have to be married to be respected. Now, Baby is a couple of years younger than me, so this is not a generational