Martin's View

What a bloody awful year it's been for the world. It hasn't been the best for me either. At least I found out the reason why I have ...

I first realised that there might be something up with the quality of US media in 1996 where I was in Houston for some training. I was due t...

The view from my logging cabin isn’t so benign this Christmas Eve. An angry swell is rolling away from this side of the rig and although the...

From where I am sitting, I have a lovely sea view. It is fairly calm, the dark water is lightly ruffled and the sky is mostly overcast; the ...

I was part of a crew in Baku a few years back when one of the guys got involved with a local girl, an ethnic Russian. For the brief time ...

Without air and any one of us would die in a matter of minutes. In my work, air can kill in a millisecond. How can this be? Air is the stuff...

From my hotel room I can see five parked cars below: two German and three Japanese. As a write, a large Izuzu 4x4 rolls silently by; the e...