The Mother Lodge by Rudyard Kipling There was Rundle, Station Master,An’ Beazely of the Rail, An’ Ackman, Commissariat, An’ Donkin o’ the Jail; An’ Blake, Conductor-Sergeant, Our Master twice was ‘e, An’ ‘im that kept the Europe-shop, Old Framjee Eduljee…. Read More ›
From 1996 – when, following the collapse of his beloved, aquaCORP Magazine, Michael turned his back on the diving industry – until his eventual return at the OZTeK2011 event, Michael Menduno and I remained firm friends maintaining regular communications with… Read More ›
A forgotten South Atlantic ‘outpost’ of the former British Empire, the Falkland Islands came to public gaze when, on 20th April, 1982, Argentina’s ruling Junta asserted their claim to the islands by seizing military control. Their actions elicited a military… Read More ›
The article that follows relates to a dive trip to Papua New Guinea in early 1996. —————— Papua New Guinea. Land of Adventure and Excitement. It’s everything that the travel brochures claim for it. And then some! Ragged mountain ranges… Read More ›
I have enormously fond memories of the time that I spent in what was then a quiet and forgotten backwater of Indo-China; a small Asian country that had had more bombs dropped on it during the course of the Vietnam… Read More ›
It’s a simple fact of life that, buried deep within the psyche of some – but much closer to the surface in others – is the desire to be recognised as a person whose life and accomplishments have made a… Read More ›
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