Captain Frank Shaw was a prolific author now almost forgotten. If you are attracted to Captain Lash it makes sense to buy the illustrated edition.
If, however, your mind soars to loftier matters, the daily quote from the Bible in The Times Register may be more salubrious.
“Judge not and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” (Luke 6, 37 – 38, ESV)
This is the English Standard Version, created by a team of more than a hundred leading evangelical scholars and pastors and published in 2001. I don’t suppose they had seen Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter in the 1978 Campari advert.
Robert, Bertie and I are having a holiday on the Norfolk coast; big skies, soaring shore larks but no snow buntings so far.
