The battle to restore Herbie's paintwork goes on despite entirely unsuitable weather.  Last week's  heatwave would have fried the p...

 Our son Richard would be quite pleased if a called him a nutter. He certainly has a weird brain. One thing he sometimes tells us about is c...

An email enquiry has flooded in from a Mr Rainman of Rickmansworth asking about our painting progress, so here goes: At last we're makin...

 Phew what a scorcher.  Watching paint dry isn't the slow process implied by the well known saying.  The bl**dy stuff is drying on the b...

 We're back home now after a mildly productuve couple of weeks on Herbie.  The worst of the roof rust is now removed, treated and overpa...

 We eventually got all the black Fertan streaks off the side of the boat (that was a couple of hours work I hadn't planned for) and at l...

 After my optimism of yesterday, fate had other ideas. My fault really, I should have remembered that Fertan when it is working produces a s...

 They say the sun shones on the righteous. Well they must have got that wrong because it shone all day on us yesterday, which was great as w...

 It seems a few people were wondering what I've been up to between my two last post which were in January and then mid April. Well here...

 A request has flooded in from our old pal Rainman asking me to do a blog post. I've almost forgotten how to do it, it's been so lon...