It's the 102nd birthday of aviator extraordinaire Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. The story of his unauthorised transatlantic flight in 1938 is told very amusingly here. They don't make them like Corrigan any more...
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
I'm inspired to try this myself. I've often considered that I should do something stupidly dangerous.
ReplyDelete