Third time lucky...?
And so it comes to pass that England reaches the semi-finals of the World Cup for only the third time. We all know what happened in 1966, and - sadly - all know what happened in 1990. They say that things come in threes, and - as with England - the same is true of me. In 1990, I was hunched around a TV screen with British Airways colleagues in Florida, otherwise engaged in my first career as a pilot... when England famously went out on penalties. Fast forward three years, a
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
Chapter 1
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter 2
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
Chapter 3
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.