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“It’s not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don’t forget things like that.” Well, if it was good enough for Jeff Bernard, it’s good enough for me. I first met Jeff around 1980…
Everyone knows that mining is dangerous. This is what it’s like when you’re three thousand feet underground and things go wrong in a really big way. I spent most of 1977 and 1978 underground at Randfontein Estates Gold Mine and Rustenburg Platinum’s Amandelbult mine near Thabazimbi. One day, part of the stope I was working…
We have owned a house in the Indre department (36) since 2003 and I have done a lot of cycling around Argenton sur Creuse and Eguzon, a delight because of its quiet, understated beauty and the virtual absence of heavy traffic on the roads. The summers are not as hot as the south of France,…