Cruising life

  • November 3, 2015

There is something comforting about lying warm and dry in ones bunk while listening to steady rain falling on deck, securely moored in the marina whose excellent warm cafe will…

  • October 27, 2015

As the nights draw in on the end of the 2015 sailing season I am starting to ponder the twilight of my own working life. I have been a GP…

  • October 21, 2015

Although I do not necessarily feel any pressing need for refreshment, Continual Professional Development (CPD) requires me to attend an annual GP Refresher Course. At least the one at which…

Dick Durham

  • October 19, 2015

There are any number of DIY weather forecasting manuals and all of them train us up the same way. There’s the overview: the plan of a weather system with its…

  • October 13, 2015

As a Brummie, I feel qualified to reproduce a shortened version of this very bad Black Country joke as an opener to this whimsy. Having been made redundant, Enoch and…

Jonty Pearce

  • October 6, 2015

Finally for the first time this season we achieved: Getting out of Milford Haven and going further than St Ann’s Head lighthouse Raising all the flappy bits and enjoying a…

Jonty Pearce

  • September 29, 2015

When our noble editor first suggested that I wrote a blog I must admit that I declined, partly from a Ludditic stance of not knowing what a blog actually was,…

  • September 22, 2015

I don’t much like change. In fact, working as an NHS GP, I have a severe case of change fatigue. If something works, why change it? All too many Ministers…

Jonty Pearce

  • September 15, 2015

I always enjoy the Southampton Boat Show. I still have a childhood memory of the excitement of Earl’s Court when, taken along as company for my best friend, we gawped…

  • September 14, 2015

I had a book, How to Sail. Every day I went through it and memorised names and mentally practiced the ritual of getting under sail. The armchair sailors in the…