Hi, howya doin' ?  I hope you haven't been blown away or washed away.  In the past, one of my dreams was to live in a house on th...

In recent weeks speculation has been rife on the interweb - the Herbies say they're planning a move, but where will they go and when?  W...

After my birthday this week I may only be 27 years short of my telegram from the Queen (or I suppose by then, King) but I still enjoy a bit ...

Last night we had a long conversation with our scientist son Peter about what we should be doing, personally, about global warming.  He, alo...

I could try to quote Donald Rumsfeld here about known unknowns and all that, but I'd only get confused.  Anyway thanks to those who let ...

Three things to talk about today -well four if you count apologising for not posting on Boxing Day as promised - too busy entertaining the f...

Well that was a longer than planned intermission.  Now you're probably all drunk from spending too long in the bar.  I console myself wi...

I'm losing the plot.  All this getting ready for Christmas stuff must be getting to me.  In my last post I appear to have given fake new...

Yesterdays nominations of Away From It All Moorings drew a couple of comments, one in favour of each, so here's our casting vote.  I thi...

Can a pub survive without doing food these days?  Possibly not, or at least very few do, and many of us boaters head for the pub as much for...

Oh how to pick a winner from yesterday's Best Gadget nominations?  In the end I asked myself "Which one would you most regret not h...

Before I announce the winner of Worst Piece of Canal Infrastructure (along the S Oxford), I realise I left another disastrous piece of kit o...