The really intriguing web of intrigue

 The internet has changed our lives forever, and in so many ways for the good. For the good of our knowledge, our heath, and - so brilliantly – for keeping us

up to date with what's going on in the world just about as it happens, and even with our own near-static Brexit affair.

 Want to know about films, theatre, books, how to feed a budgie, what to do if a chick falls out of its nest?

The answers are there, but a click away. It's for free. You'd expect it to cost a fortune.

If you happen to be looking at your monthly charges from Virgin or BT or TalkTalk, you might well be surprised to hear that the web is for free. Absolutely gratis.

And yet its presence, invented by Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, is felt in almost every home in the world, yet it was only in 1991, that Tim Berners-Lee developed the first web site info.cern.ch.

Need to check the spelling of a word, ask Google, and learn much quicker than reaching for a dictionary. Want advice on gardening, astronomy, psychology, the price of coffee in Aldi or Lidl or Sainsbury's? Continues on the blogs for my ocean-travel adventure book, Sailing to Purgatory, at SailingToPurgatory.com