URSABLOG: A Whole Lotta Nothing
Nature abhors a vacuum, and it is not alone. Humans don’t like emptiness either and strive to fill it with meaning – or meaninglessness – depending on their mood. When I was
URSABLOG: En Passant
I was in my usual favourite place: drinking coffee, reading a book, with a packet of cigarettes to hand on the aft deck of a ferry sailing east. The sun was beginning to set behind
URSABLOG: The Price of Good Wine
Sitting down at a table for one in a restaurant, I was presented with one of the most astonishing wine lists I had ever encountered: the range and breadth of the wines, the vintage