URSABLOG. A Change in Space and Time 3: Sound and Vision.
At one point soon after I moved into my new place, dispirited by towers of unopened cardboard boxes, I started to think that it was foolish of me to hang on to so much stuff, especially that which could be easily reduced and stored digitally on one small hard drive. But then I opened a […]
URSABLOG: A Change in Space and Time. Part 2: My Favourite Shirt
You may have come across Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Well, I think this can be adapted into other areas of life, whilst still maintaining the same theme: The number of items of clothing expands so as to fill the space available for their storage. This […]
URSABLOG: A Change in Space and Time
I’ve just moved house – from one part of central Athens to another – and even though the distance is short, and the new flat is more or less the same size, this change has proved more significant than I expected. I had been living in the flat I have just moved out of for […]
URSABLOG: Do The Rules Still Apply?
Around ten years ago, in the midst of the worst dry bulk carrier market for a generation, when some ships were being arrested and auctioned by pitiless and ignorant banks, and many others were going up the beach to be recycled well before their expiry date, I came up with the rather pompous sounding Simon […]
URSABLOG: And So It Begins…
As Samuel Johnson might have said, had he been a British shipbroker based in Greece: “Well sir [or madam], when a shipbroker is tired of Posidonia, he [or she] is tired of shipbroking.” But Doctor Johnson was not a shipbroker, and he wasn’t based in Greece, and he wasn’t getting his suits cleaned, and shoes […]