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We are in the habit of following  The News  to discover what is happening in the world. Earlier in our lives this would have involved buying...

Once again the topic here returns to preparations for our grand cycling adventure planned for later this year, a planning process that we ha...

I still have a small scar on my leg from when our dishwasher bit me a week or so ago. To tell the truth I cannot blame the machine itself as...

One of the lessons we learnt last year when planning our cycle adventure is that it pays to book early. Train and ferry prices seem to have ...

It was a fine winter's day, one of the shortest of the year, which dawned frosty and cold. One of the features of living amongst the hil...

A new meaning for an everyday word - device : a thing made or adapted for a a particular purpose. Today the word tends to be used to mean po...

Continued from Sailing yet again...   Let me say up front here that anyone who says 'she's an old boat on an old trailer so what can...

Our leisure activities change over time. Up to about  a year ago I was looking forward to spending more time on the water, sailing on our b...