Boating for the Lazy
Share As the American cartoonist Berk Breathed said, “I like boats. They’re healthier than Valium. Cost more, though.” Boats and the idle lifestyle though, don’t, at first sight, seem to go together. Think of Ellen Macarthur, weeks on end with less than an hours sleep a night, bashing around the southern ocean with never so...
In Praise of the 746: When phones were phones
Share Modern phones are, to paraphrase Blur, rubbish. Mobiles have more gadgets than any sane person would ever use, and ‘plug-in’ domestic phones are horrible plasticky lightweight things, that slide across the table when you pick up the receiver, annoy with their burbly electronic ringtone and have features (speed dial, call waiting, answering machines) which...
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