1.  Written on Thursday evening: Here we sit, on the back of Herbie at our new Ventnor berth, gazing out across the still water to the reeds...

  As the excitement of Lionel Messi’s transfer to PSG dies down in the world’s press, news is coming in of an even more dramatic and unexpec...

 Well it's nearly a week since they fitted my pacemaker, so I'm beginning to get an idea of how I'm doing.  The dressings are al...

 Thanks to those who sent messages of support about my pacemaker appointment and those who just thought it. Now I am at home after a success...

 When I were a lad, we had a permanent lodger in our house.  Dear old Uncle Bert, my mum's bachelor brother.  Imagine the BFG in Steven ...

 CRT's recent revision of terms and conditions for boat licences makes a fun read.  There's an awful lot of loophole filling regardi...

 Preamble: Many many years ago, when I was a young engineering student, my housemates and I used to consume large amounts of unsweetened gra...

Last day out in this all too short boating break and we celebrated by doing er, not much.  We stayed put at Napton and I sat in the sun and ...

 It's official - Chris Packham says spring is up to a month late this year.  Of course when it arrives all depends on where you live. Do...

 When I made a box to keep windlasses, mooring chains and stakes etc last time, I should have learned the lesson from my first roof box - do...

 Quite a number of my readers will have met my (very) old pal Rick and some of them know that he is officially a brilliant engineer.  What t...

It was fun watching that ship stuck in the Suez canal wasn't it?  I expect that other canal boaters were like me and Kath shouting ...