trottyworld

Two completely different and unrelated events dominate our lives at this juncture. One concerns our son Ben, whose band’s first single “Litt...

Finally we could resist it no more. The strings attaching us to what has been our floating home for so long have eventually and inevitably p...

Well that’s one job finished at least. It seems like forever that I have been labouring away in the smallest room, putting tiles over… well ...

Even we, who have spent nearly all the last four weeks tearing apart the very house we live in, eventually decided we needed something of a ...

If this blog seems to be getting more and more like an episode of ‘Grand Designs’ then I make no apologies for this as it is merely reflecti...

By the time we started our retirement in 2009 we had slimmed down our lives and reduced our belongings to an absolute minimum so that we cou...

Malcolm: Cirrus Cat's new home is surrounded by a rolling, wooded landscape, calm waters rippled by the breeze only for part of the day...

Living aboard Cirrus, or indeed any boat, one comes to take for granted that many of the ordinary daily tasks we carry out, simple things li...