The fresh enmoorings, for a day or three, while the Met Office makes some of the urgent adjustments to its…
Keep flat. Serving suggestion 400g.
At last – a cakerista who gets the instructions correct for Spendmas. [See lower left-hand corner of lead image.] I…
Meerkat Moorings and a Cheery Wave
I still have a magnificent quarter-mile or so of open view from my bow, but – yep – rather akin…
Water & Diesel & Gazunders & Comestibles
My childhood was a bit “boom and bust” in terms of the family fortunes. This is probably why I have…
Fuel Boat BARGUS in Lock-Down
There’s a new (old) fuel-boat in town. Halsall is patrolling fresh waters, and nb BARGUS (also from Four Counties Fuels)…
Winter Drawers On
Humorous Protagonist A: ‘I’m not going to answer the door in my longjohns.’ Humorous Protagonist B: ‘I didn’t know that…
The Carp are having a Diem
Somewhere under there… Filthy beasts. Sunday eh? We’ve been promised some brightth today by the Metabiological Office, even some ……
Gloom and Geese for International Men’s Day
When the morning sky looks like this (taken from the Cardinal’s side-hatch) how the hecky heck is anyone supposed to…
Hunkering and Bunkering
This probably constitutes El Panic Buying, but it’s not. I didn’t realise that the Fuel Boat, nb BARGUS, would be…
Ginger Season
a.k.a. ‘The Mighty Drear’. Or possibly auburn season. Is it open season on Auburn Hepburns? Do people still use the…
Doing the ironying
I shall be attending a small Remembrance Event this morning, as I have always done whenever it has been possible,…
Goose Stepping Backwards For Christmas
Or The Delights of a Deafening Avian Cacophany going on for hours from before first light. There’s a lonesome goose…