Apparently, three blogs a second are started in Europe. I wonder about the other two joining me in this instant. The temptation to mumble the digerati equivalent of “Mamma, mamma,” like a child’s first words, is strong.

The only aim of writing, suggested Dr Johnson, should be to enable the reader to better enjoy life or to endure it.  So I had better write something useful.

These scratches in the sand. I’ll come and scribble in between tides.