My Blogs including travel logs and sketches

  Another trip to Agadir, and accidental discovery of an amazing beach Agadir beach 10/01/26 Back to the Village for the 4th time. It has been freezing all week. North and west suffered most. Glad to get out of it. 10 days in Morocco for a bit of sun , hopefully. But there were no trains to Gatwick! Luckily we managed to book a last minute cab. We were booked on British Airways flight 12.55. We don't usually book BA. When you book it doesn't say that the seats are extra. £50 , and those are the cheapest ! BA do not issue boarding passes until the day before. When we tried to check in, my bag was rejected. We had to find someone to book it in manually. We had a sight seeing tour round Gatwick on the bus. The reason - there was a problem with our designated plane. We had to use a " spare " one parked at the end at of the airport. I don't know how long it had been parked up, but it sounded pretty ropey when it fired up, like a washing machine that had seen better day...

  My cartoon sketches on current political affairs 27/4/26 A gunman storms the White House at a dinner with Trump in attendance just before Charles and Camilla due for a state visit 11/3/26 Trump says "We've won the war." Then Iran blows up a major oil storage facility in Kuwait and sets fire to 3 cargo ships and an oil tanker 5/03 HMS Dragon delayed from sailing to help defend air base in Cyprus which cam under attack. Equipped with wrong type of missle 2/03/26 Starmer gives permission for American planes to fly from UK bases for defense purposes only after Israel and America invade Iran  15/02/26 Starmer announces that he is sending a task force to patrol N Atlantic because of the perceived Russian threat. 09/02/26 McSweeney and Allen quit as row over Mandelson's appointment as ambassador grows 01/02/26 More revelations about about ex Prince Andrew Windsor and his association with Epstein 26/01/26 Labour's National Exec Committee, controlled by Starmer, block Bu...