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Author: Brian MacDonald
Company: -
Region: England
Website: oldgoatsblog.blogspot.com/
Memorable Quote 1: 'What's the answer to my question?'
Memorable Quote 2: 'Is this meeting going to last more than fifteen minutes?'
Author Comment / Biography:
A retired cruise-line executive. Married with two sons and two dogs.
My interests are ancient history, baroque music, understandable poetry and our two dogs who thoroughly enjoy their walks in our local country parks.
My musical tastes usually centre around the works of Bach, Handel, Mozart and Scarlatti. I much enjoy sacred choral music and plainsong chant along with the wonderful resonant chants of the Russian Orthodox church. I also enjoy the Gilbert & Sullivan operattas, my favourite being the Mikado.
My reading material is usually history (Egyptian, Roman and Victorian) though I get much enjoyment from the historical naval novels of Patrick O’Brian and the poetry of John Betjeman and others.
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1. Uplifting!
January 06, 2011
Anyone who has been fortunate enough to visit the great pyramids dominating the Giza plateau may also have travelled a little further south to Saqqara to admire the 4,650-year-old Step Pyramid of King Djoser.
Djoser’s imposing 60-metre-high pyramid rises above an enormous mortuary and festiv...
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2. A Hostile Environment
December 15, 2010
I spent forty-odd years in the shipping industry and got to travel on a variety of ships in a variety of oceans. In all that time, I think there were only a dozen occasions when the ship I was sailing in encountered such severe weather that there was danger to life and limb.
They were all ve...
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3. A Sight To Behold
November 13, 2010
A Sight To Behold
One of the joys I had of travelling - at least in the days when the actual process of getting from here to there was more pleasurable and relaxed - was visiting some of the great cathedrals of the world. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain was one such, and on ...
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4. The Extra Hour
November 01, 2010
The Extra Hour
The old adage ‘Spring forward, Fall back’ reminds us that we get an extra hour in bed tonight and that the clocks should all be returned to Greenwich Mean Time at 0200 on 31 October.
My first job in the morning will be to tour the house resetting all the clocks and wa...
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5. Happy Halloween!
November 01, 2010
Happy Halloween!
On the evening of 30 October in 1938 occurred something which it is difficult to believe could happen these days. It was the evening that CBS aired Orson Welles’ adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds and which brought short-lived panic to some American homes. <...
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6. A Memorable Day
October 24, 2010
Back in 1967 we were living in the West End of London with views of Trafalgar Square, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey. As a newly-married couple, it was an exiting place to live as there always seemed to be something interesting going on. For example, even then we were once able to see a procession pa...
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7. Too Comfortable?
October 10, 2010
The subject of prisons is one that interests me for I have not long since retired from doing voluntary work in my local one here in Britain.
I often ask myself whether or not prison is an answer to many crimes and I usually, but not always, come to the conclusion that it is. Sadly, I often t...
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8. The New ‘Bombing' Of Guam
October 10, 2010
It is twenty-five years since I visited Guam, though I can’t say that I saw much more of it than the quay to which the ship I happened to be on was tethered.
I did wander ashore in the morning and walked along the quayside to visit a Japanese cruise ship for a couple of hours. Afterwards, I ...
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9. One Of The Best London Museums
September 11, 2010
One of my favourite characters in history is Sir John Soane RA who was born on 10 September in 1753 in Goring-on-Thames in England.
The son of a bricklayer, Soane was educated in Reading and trained as an architect. He won the Royal Academy’s silver medal in 1772, its gold medal in 1776 and ...
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10. Hooray For The Dabbahwallahs!
September 08, 2010
One of the most complex but highly organised and efficient food distribution systems is that operated by the tiffin-carriers, the Dabbahwallahs, who operate in Mumbai. Each day around 5,000 men collect nearly 200,000 metal tiffin-boxes from private homes and deliver them to the right customers at lu...
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