2016-03-19 18:53
Lisbon, very late. In Lisbon airport at stupid o clock and everything, and I mean everything, is shut for the night. There are plenty of peeps wandering around, so you would have thought ke… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
This morning dawned grey and not a little damp. By 11 it was beginning to brighten and we prepared to move Gwawr over to the dock, in readiness for the hoist. The boat is 4.80m wide. The doc… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
So, today I rented a car and went exploring. First I headed through the vinyards, huntinh for a restaurant reputed to be the best on the island for the money. I must of driven past it, but I… Read More
2013-06-14 18:28
Well what an epic day. Started off ok on my whale watching trip. There were whales off Sao Mateus on the south west coast of Pico, so that's where we were going. Down to the RIB we went and… Read More
2013-06-14 18:25
this may I took advantage of the fact that Dennis has his boat out in Terceira and so I visited the Azores, a place I always wanted to go to. Here's a potted resume form my FB postings. Day… Read More
2013-03-22 23:23
When I 'retired' two years ago now, one of the things I said I would do before the end of the year was to go on holiday to somewhere different. As it transpired circumstances stopped me fro… Read More
2013-02-13 23:19
Well, what a winter it's becoming. Wet, sunny, cold, miserable, very windy from whatever direction you can think of, talk about four seasons in one day. We've had the lot. And it's not over… Read More
2013-01-07 14:38
Well here we are in 2013 and father Christmas has bought me a late prezzie. My Finn Dinghy has arrived! John turned up in a mizzle of rain which seemed to get in everywhere, making the remo… Read More
2012-11-12 23:09
Well the op went well; the recovery went pretty well, even though I picked up a chest infection; and the convalecance is going OK. I'm even a bit fitter than expected at this stage according… Read More
2012-06-05 12:52
Well it's been a good few months since I last posted. I'm wondering if it's worth it any more, as I don't appear to get any readers. The gall stone problem as mentioned now appears not to b… Read More
2012-03-01 11:17
In the true spirit of handmade houses here's a site devoted to out-of-the-way cabins in places we would all like to be at Read More
2012-02-18 16:00
Things are moving along slowly but surely. The cockpit sole is down all sealed and proper like, and the side deck framing has at last been finished - just a couple more bearers to install, b… Read More
2012-02-18 15:36
Since I 'retired' last May I've had loads of time on my hands, to do all those things I needed to do. I spent the summer upgrading my wood burner and installing solar hot water and a new plu… Read More
2012-02-18 15:35
I've lost all my photos!The filehost I used has gone belly up and just shut down; no warning, nothing.so if you are looking through some of my older posts and cannot see anything, that's the… Read More
2011-07-03 14:28
what with everything else I need to be doing, I've had no chance to actually get in the water this year, as opposed to being on it.So today, no wind, tides all wrong for the boat, too hot to… Read More
2011-05-26 10:11
... and I've written nothing in this blog. You could consider it moribund, or that absolutely nothing has happened in my life over the last year.Welllll... that's not true. Quite a lot has h… Read More
2010-05-02 09:15
Well, as they say, never look a gift horse in the mouth. However any of you that have ever been given the aforesaid horse will know that what with vet’s bill, feeding the thing and gen… Read More
2010-03-08 19:35
MadeiraThe news from Madeira lately has been shocking, but maybe not so surprising. Given the way the island was deforested shortly after it was discovered, the Maderenese have been paying f… Read More
2009-11-16 11:14
Well here I am in sunny Madeira, or rather in a wet and windy Funchal. having left the UK just as a rather nasty low pressure system brought in the real Autumn with rain and howling winds, I… Read More
2009-10-23 16:50
Well, I’ve really gone and done it now.I tried to put it off until next year, but it’s something that has to be done and whenever it happens it’s going to cost money &ndash&hell…Read More
2009-10-10 08:36
Another of those gems of the wierd and wonderful that you find on the webhttp://jalopnik.com/5359761/the-cars-of-walmart/galleryCan't help thinking that if this was the UK the vast majority… Read More
2009-08-25 10:56
The 18 project is still puttering gently along since I decided that an all out, one-hit rebuild was'nt on. the realisation that given that the time available to me was'nt going to be enough… Read More
2009-03-11 22:43
My new project is running somewhat behind the schedule I had set myself. After picking up the boat – hereafter renamed ‘Sibrwd’ , which is welsh for ‘Whisper… Read More
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