Sorry to have been so long absent - I feel like I have been waiting for a prisoner exchange deal on middies or something. Or circumnavigated the planet!
Thinking of many friends made here in recent years and how good that is,and especially wanting to greet USA friends, like vespican, eglantine_br and all Following Sea friends in the States (three days late sorry) for ( Read more... )

Last weekend the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth hosted a Naval Traditions Community Day:

Join us as we bring some famous naval traditions to life! Take part in a ‘Crossing the Line’ ceremony complete with Neptune and bears, perform in a Sods Opera, find out about the rum ration, and play Uckers or other games. With the help of our ( Read more... )

Check this out-- a Hornblower version of Cards Against Humanity. The splendid devilsdandy brought it to my attention. I cannot wait to play. I was invited to think of more cards. If you can think of any good ones perhaps suggest them ( Read more... )

Cross-posted from today's Guardian newspaper...

Archie Andrews, the redheaded American teenager in the Archie comic book series, will die taking a bullet protecting his gay friend in the issue that comes out on Wednesday ( Read more... )

Today's Guardian newspaper in the UK carried a rather unexpected article about Sharpe entitled Sharpe is an action-packed alternative to the World Cup. Talk about a tenuous tie in or what?! I confess I only skimmed the article before going straight to the comments, as you can guarantee that if someone mentions Sharpe in the press, someone else ( Read more... )

I admit this is a little earlier in the period than usual, but I thought I'd post it here in case it might be of interest to some of you ( Read more... )

Yesterday I groused, as vespican (politely, I hope) about what seemed to be a delay in the publishing of Sailing Dangerous Waters: Another Stone Island Sea Story.  Then today, as I've done for the past couple of weeks, I checked e-mail via my phone a numerous times.  Around 1115 hrs, I checked again and beheld the e-mail from Outskirts Press which ( Read more... )

I hope members of the community don't mind this being posted here.  Some of you might be aware that I'm in the final stages of self-publishing my second book (Sailing Dangerous Waters: Another Stone Island Sea Story) from the Stone Island Sea Stories.   So far, my self-publishing service and assistance company has made if available as either a Nook ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to begin with this...

So on the whole, I am indifferent to the entire 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon. I have, however, been keeping my eye on the rumors of a movie, because I'm curious to see how the fans and those who hate the book react. I've also joked that the only way you can get me interested in the movie is if Ioan was ( Read more... )

Just reminding everyone that there is still a bit of time to enter for a chance to win a copy of Beyond the Ocean's Edge: A Stone Island Sea Story.  I'll be accepting entries through the 8th of May.  Since I don't plan to determine a winner until the 9th, there is a chance that a slightly late entry might be considered.  See my post of 28 April for ( Read more... )