Author: jamenelson@gmail.com

Jim Nelson is a sixty-two year old, wheelchair bound, incomplete tetraplegic, following a DIY accident in April 2016. Prior to that, he had a forty-five year career in the world of underwater, happiness, awe exploration, science, engineering and the oil and gas industry. During his tenure in the latter, he played a small part in the destruction of this beautiful planet, and he is feeling horribly guilty about that. Contradictorily, he has always been a noisy advocate on behalf of all of nature, especially those creatures who inhabit the oceans, where he routinely witnessed the wonder of them, as a perk of his job. He has a keen interest in psychology, psychiatry, anthropology and psychological anthropology. He has a higher diploma in human psychology and a diploma in drug and substance abuse counselling. Throughout his life he has written, and kept diaries which are full of stories from the far-flung places that he has worked. His short stories are written from experience, and he likes to think that the sense of humour in his cartoons, come from there also. In 1977 he qualified as a finished artist and a copywriter for the advertising industry, in which he never worked. However that love of art and words stayed with him throughout his life, and now that he has nothing but time on his hands, and one reasonably good hand, the left one, which he has forced to behave somewhat like his right used to. He indulges himself drawing and writing. A short story of his, has been printed in a regional newspaper, the Tipperary Star, and it is due for publication in the annual edition of a weekly, national magazine, Ireland’s Own on 10 September https://www.irelandsown.ie/ Ireland’s own have also undertaken to publish another short story in their weekly magazine; however a date has not been set as yet. Three of his original cartoons were published in the September October edition of the online literary review Spadina http://spadinaliteraryreview.com/ in Toronto Canada and they have undertaken to publish a short story, and three more original cartoons in their November / December edition, and another story in their January / February edition. He is married with three children and lives in Dublin Ireland with his family and their two dogs, bearded lizard, snake, tail- less whip scorpion (at least) three cats, a tortoise and many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of ants.

July 26, 2023

Slippy and Turgidy strategy at PAC

July 26, 2023July 26, 2023

Games at RTE summer party and barbecue.

July 26, 2023July 26, 2023

Buckingham Palace water.

July 26, 2023

Turgidy and Kelly

July 26, 2023November 22, 2023

Saudi Arabia Shuaibah.

Shuaibah.

In July 1989 the diving company A, asked me to take a diving team to the Red Sea, for a civil engineering job.

I readily agreed, because a new environment would break up those excruciatingly long 110 day trips.

My day rate was increased by $50.00 as I would be supervising the job.

There was a lot of paperwork, identity passes, Saudi driver’s licenses and letters of permission to travel within the kingdom, all in Arabic with photos attached, to be applied for and secured before we could go anywhere. Those bureaucratic formalities took several weeks, but eventually the team was ready to go.

July 10, 2023November 22, 2023

Egypt Belly dancing in Port Said.

Belly Dancing in Port Said Egypt.

On 1 December 1998, I and an English colleague, who lived in France and was also ‘Jim’, were called out to Egypt to do a 10 day rig move for Impresub, our Italian employer.

A rig move involves relocating a Jack up drilling rig from one subsea well head to another.

Easily said, but not so easily done, involving as it does a great deal of coordinated movement to relocate the huge structure even a couple of hundred metres.

July 7, 2023