Autumn to Winter Overnight

We’ve gone from mellow fruitfulness (the reds and golds of Autumn) to the inside of a polar bear’s boxer shorts … More

First Cruise of the Year…

…first of this year, that is, on which I encountered not a single other boat moving… Has Winter begun? The … More

I suspect ‘large dog’ and would hope ‘unaccompanied’ but I doubt the latter. There just aren’t any stray hounds in … More

The coal, like the caribou, are gorn. Most went up the chimney, three buckets of ash went into the eco-system. … More

We mooched on again the other day. Having re-traced our prop-wash up the Limpopo (known by the locals as the … More

My goodness me but the it of it is cold this morning. Opening the side-hatch to beat my chest and … More