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...

This is supposed to be a blog about our boating but that doesn't seem very possible lately  (see below) but  it's also a diary for m...

Merry Christmas dear readers.  My, haven't I been neglecting you lately! Sorry about that, and sorry not to have got round to the usual ...

 Following my signwriting course I've not only been practising brushwork at home but also thinking about repainting Herbie's name on...

 Major problems at Cropredy Marina yesterday thanks to storm Bert.  The moorers' facebook group was showing alarming pictures of floodin...

 The restoration of Herbie's hinged aft hatch lid is complete, no thanks to me. All the thanks go to my mate Rick who has lovingly and s...