Simon Campbell
Musings from an eclectic, eccentric, well travelled and generally funny bloke
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Posted at 2222 hours on 20/12/10 | Posted in Life, Business, Diving, Music
A Christmas Carol
In 1843 Charles Dickens wrote ‘A Christmas Carol” detailing the plight of brow beaten Bob Cratchit and family at the hands of money grabbing and heartless Ebenezer Scrooge. Following the supernatural intervention of Scrooge’s late business partner Jacob Marley, he reforms into a loving and caring individual. A happy ending…
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Posted at 0042 hours on 19/05/09 | Posted in Business, My 100 best things
The simoncampbell.com redesign!
Having lived very happily with the design of my blog for a year, I decided it was time for a revamp. So going from the minimalistic lines designed by the very excellent Phil Swan, we move to the ‘retro’ feel created by xhtml/css master, Greg (Gregorious) Wood.
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Posted at 1629 hours on 25/01/09 | Posted in Life, Business
Bad curry, sea survival and kippers
This article tells of tales of horrific curry’s, a ‘Sea Survival’ course, the lack of essential items in the Isle of Man, kayaking, wallswaps, kippers, football, walnuts & farting…
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Posted at 1726 hours on 15/10/08 | Posted in Life, Business
Afghanistan, Burgerman and more…
A lot has happened over the past few days from my son going to off to fight in Afghanistan, to Jon Burgerman’s new drawings of Angela and myself…
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Posted at 2032 hours on 05/10/08 | Posted in Business, Diving
Call me ‘Skip’
As we are in the process of negotiating the purchase of a ship, I thought it prudent to continue my nautical education. So this is the brief tale of moving from RYA Advanced Powerboat to Coastal Skipper in something a little bigger than a RIB…
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Posted at 1443 hours on 18/04/08 | Posted in Business, Diving
Princess of the Orient
On September 19th 1998 having been beaten by Tropical Storm Vicki, The Princess Of The Orient, a 200m long 13,734 ton ferry, sank 40 miles south of Manila on its way to Cebu. She now rests in 125m of water and is the final resting place of some 150 souls that were lost that night. In the early 2000s world deep diving record holder John Bennett and Ron Loos, of Atlantis Tech in the Philippines, were the first two explorers to dive her. Since that time only 7 other people had had the honour of seeing the ‘Princess’. A guest article by Mike Taylor.
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