All at sea for a Cape Horner bid ... and how
It’s the anniversary of sailing around notorious old Cape Horn back in, well, memory seems to suggest 1981. Could it really be so long ago?
Where to go on holiday? Robert knows
It isn't odd and rather extraordinary just how adaptable we are, whether it involves our work or play, or even love and companionship. Take holidays, for instance.
Looking into the past in black and white
Keen on your family history, then what a marvel ancient photography can turn out to be. After a few years, memory from the happenings of youth can be distorted by time, and seemingly become rather unreliable.
Why foxes love January
The tears children spill over a snowless early spring are drowned by the howls of joy of foxes in my communal garden and in the neighbourhood, probably in most British neighbourhoods.
A sudden brightening of winter by clever songsters
I’m a natural optimist – you have to be to go to sea, of course – but this morning as I stepped into the garden I admitted that I was confronted with a boring, utterly dismal scene on a dark, rain-splattered, sopping truly miserable day.
