Monday, 13 February 2012

The oldest One Design in the World (and a chance to buy her)

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  Avid readers of this blog (you know who you are, I don’t) know how I love a good mystery. If you guddle through my earlier posts fro...
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Saturday, 4 February 2012

Cool Colonsay

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  I'm just back from an interesting trip to Colonsay. Over the years I've often had a glimpse of this island, visible far out...
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Saturday, 21 January 2012

The Art of the Progue, a Galloway Whisky Galore and a naturalist Welsh Monk

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The recent storms haven't all been doom and gloom for some of the local characters around here. Our shores have been recipient...
Monday, 2 January 2012

Will the salmon share Betty's luck?

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As I write this several hundred thousand mature salmon are making their reluctant way across the North Sea aboard about a dozen en...
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Saturday, 24 December 2011

Festive Greetings to one and all

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A Happy Christmas, Merry Solstice or whatever to everyone who bothers to read this stuff,or happens to stumble on it in a forage through ...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

The magical Isle of Gigha, nice memories for horrid winter days

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My log for 1979 contains the following entries for the Glasgow Fair Weekend:- "Self and PS Saturday July 14 HW Ob...
Monday, 19 December 2011

Tramp Steamers

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SS Harmodious by John Gardner Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,   Butting through the Channel in the mad March da...