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The living is easy

The living is easy ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush little baby, don’t you cry …’                                                                    George Gershwin’s lyrics to Summertime   My earliest recollection of summertime as a kid was a long trip to … [Read more…]

The Perils of Wetsuits

    The Perils of Wetsuits     James Bond often slipped into a black rubber wetsuit. Sean Connery as 007 is very partial to them. Preferably accessorized with a gun or a vicious underwater harpoon. My favourite Connery 007 scene is in Goldfinger, where he swims underwater to an island. He stealthily emerges at … [Read more…]