Tide and the Big Clock
Time and navigation have a cosy relationship, as John Harrison, inventor of the chronometer that cracked the longitude problem in the 18th Century would attest.…
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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.…
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…
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…