Chichester Lightning
The skies above the Natural Navigator last night as he tried to devise an ingenious new method to catch a pair of errant chickens. (Picture…
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Desert of Information
Back from holiday to me means back to the joys and evils of modern life. In the remotest part of south Brittany where we had…
Waves of Confusion
This morning, as our Land Rover rolled onto the Brittany ferry, or MV Bretagne as she likes to be called, I had a cunning plan.…
Top Secret
There is a scene in the 80s spoof movie Top Secret where Val Kilmer is busy painting the scene from a moving train. We later…
Nature and Vomit
Our summer holiday was at last beginning and all the joys and trepidations of a family outing with small children concentrated themselves into the lower…
Good Day Out for the Missus
HRH the Duke of Edinburgh was kind enough to take time out to present me with a Royal Institute of Navigation Award this afternoon. At…
Smell Power
Stumbled across a bit of a gem this evening. Marion Owen, ‘master gardener’, describing the moment she decided to become a gardener at the end…
A Bisecting Breeze
Early this evening Mrs G and I escaped for a quick wander aboard Golden Eye, my Contessa 32, in Chichester Harbour. One of the lovely…