Friday lunchtime I was playing darts in my local pub, just next door to where I worked.  I had just been comprehensively outplayed by one of the pub's first team and headed over to my pie and pint. I'd left them on a table which had been empty when I went up to the oche to play.   It wasn't now. There were two girls sitting there, Sauvignon Blancs in hand, the remnants of their sandwiches in front of them. I recognised th...

It was early summer and I would need to take my vacation before those of my colleagues with families. My destination for this holiday was a sailing school based in an old converted Mersey ferry, moored permanently in the Salcombe River estuary.I was there for a sanity check on my progress since last year. So, no single-handed dinghy sailing, but assisted by an Instructor, assessing my capabilities. I was paired with Sue,...