We had a little adventure yesterday, Mark from the boat across the river, his daughter Bree, and I. He rang me up fairly early in the morning to tell me that there were dolphins in the river just upstream of us. They were in a big wide spot, so shallow with the...
Giving the blog a kick. I’ve been trying different social media, have concentrated on Facebook for the last while, but it’s a mixed blessing and many people don’t like it. So, I’ve got the Yahoo Jwbuilders group going again, its still showing 4500 or so...
I’ll get back with a more comprehensive report, but in the meantime here is a pic taken by Jon Tucker while sailing in the Bay of Islands. The pic pretty much says it all.
Being summertime here, I’m pining for the Fiords . Oops, not quite. Monty Python has a lot to answer for. Really though I’m wanting to go sailing, cruising in a boat that has enough space in its cabin to be halfway comfortable, in a boat capable enough to...
Blog for 6 Dec. So, in theory at least its the 6th day of summer here, but the weather is its normal unsettled self for this time of year, warmer than usual so at times the weather is more extreme. Its odd, when you’ve not been working in the shop for a while,...
Morning. 14 July. 2018. He snores, my little dog, as he lies sleeping on his rug. Dawn is still an hour away so he’s entitled to sleep, but I’m sitting up in my bunk looking out over the water, watching the ripples distorting the reflection of the lights on the...
