Coming off the bike
I fell off my bike yesterday (it skidded from under me when I braked and changed direction on a wet and slippery road) and inflicted a fair amount of damage on my knee, thigh...
Category: Family Today
Diary and pictures of a Swan Hellenic Cruise
As promised, or threatened, in a recent Ephems post about the impending demise of the Swan Hellenic cruise line, I have now put a not-too-serious diary of our first and last Swan Hellenic experience...
A week in Paris AFK
Ephems is off to Paris tomorrow for a week ‘Away From Keyboard’, or AFK, as the knowing anoraks say. No more new posts after today; no more comments on comments, however misguided (or provocative or laudatory). Ephems will spend the week basking, not in the sun (the forecast is for almost continuous showers) but in the warm glow of being awarded pride of place in last week’s Britblogs of The Week for a recent post. Thanks for that, Tim.
Caribbean cruise diary
A two-part, light-hearted diary of a P&O cruise to the Caribbean in November 2005 [More >>>]
Caribbean cruise pictures
Selected pictures from a Caribbean cruise on P&O Aurora, Nov. 2005 [More>>>>]
Solving a link problem
If some of my links don’t work, enable pop-ups or right-click to ‘open in new window’.
The website make-over: a tribute to the re-designer
The wholesale redesign of this website and the integration of my Ephems blog into it are entirely the work of Owen Barder: it has already attracted much admiration.
Telling a man by his books
In response to popular demand, expressed variously in other people’s blogs as a ‘meme’ or a ‘tig’ (neither of which terms I understand), I join other contributors in answering four challenging questions – challenging,...