You may have noticed the radio silence these past few weeks. I cannot apologise for the randomness of my posting. It will remain a feature for the foreseeable future. However, I hope that you will recognise this as a feature of someone who is writing for the purpose of sharing, building and questioning. I have […]
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Ahoy, shipmates. Sorry for neglecting you all, my fellow Yankee-Jockers. I’m painfully aware that I haven’t posted in a while. It’s been a busy old summer. I took the last 10 weeks off work, (by work, I mean seafaring – still in the office), so that I could be close to home with my wife […]
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New Orders
It doesn’t feel easy to write now. Not, at least, without feeling a measure of futility. I’ve really struggled to finish off the several articles I’ve drafted in the past few weeks. Somehow, you lovely people keep subscribing, despite (or perhaps because of) the recent scarcity of posting. I’m trying hard not to get caught […]
Greetings, Yankee Jockers. Apologies for the unexplained absence. It has been a funny couple of months. To be completely honest, I have had time to write. Indeed, I have been writing plenty. But since the Dali incident and article, I’ve been feeling a bit of a change in my internal constitution that has made the […]
Happy Easter, my friends. I’m going to begin with the Orthodox Paschal greeting today because I think the most important thing that I have come to learn these past few years, is how seriously and dangerously cut off from our traditions we are. So – Christ is risen. Now, down to business. I’m currently serving […]
This blog began about two years ago. With hope, fear, insecurity, desperation, and a curious shift in circumstances that brought an unexpected bounty of free time for reflection and naval-gazing (bad pun intended), I promised you all a weekly meeting. With the luxurious wallowing in free time enjoyed in those extraordinary circumstances of my first […]
In my latest (publishable) dream I was standing on the quayside waiting for my ship to come in. I had been waiting for this ship for a very long time. As I caught a glimpse of it on the horizon, I received news that the ship had been infiltrated by treacherous rebels, and that we’d […]
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Overloaded
I can only apologise for the recent radio silence, my friends. I’ve been a busy boy of late. It’s a bit of a shame that the cooler the stuff I do, the more NDAs and social media disclaimers I have to sign. I don’t think many of you have a spare $800M lying around that […]
I did once visit the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior. Not the current ship to bear that name, but it’s predecessor. She was an old Aberdonian trawler, cut down the middle and lengthened to accommodate various fast daughter craft on her main deck, ready for commando-style launching while underway at sea. At that time, around 2009 […]
It’s dim now, but what I remember most about that night was the physical pain. My mother woke me in the middle of the night in a state of total hysteria. ‘Get up, now! It’s Tony! He’s in the hospital! Get up, NOW!’ My left ear was in agony. It felt like it had been […]