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Sailing my life away, part 26

26th October 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

Welcome back time-travellers. We have landed in mid-August 1997 at Scalloway on the Mainland of Shetland and are about to set sail for Fair Isle. Before we cast off from the Boating Club’s pontoon I’d [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Five

16th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, our well-travelled Mystery Album photographers took us to South Walsham on a Norfolk Broads wherry holiday. We were left tied up at the present day mooring of Lord Fairford. Since then, the ladies [more…]

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Sailing my life away, Part 25

12th October 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

Dear Readers,  I plan to leave Alchemi in Stornaway for the duration of this article and take you on another trip in the Time Machine.     Those who join me will flit forwards over [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Four

9th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Having exhausted the train photographs to the middle of our mystery album, with care we shall turn its century-old leaves to the front. Those locomotive photos were from 1925, therefore the next set of reproductions [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 24

28th September 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

I’m glad my account of Sweden and Norway in earlier articles revived memories for several readers who had been there themselves or, like Arthur Dent, had met Scandinavians in Britain.     It is quite [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 23

14th September 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

Here is a Cabin Announcement. Please fasten your seatbelts, our Time Machine is about to land at Stavanger, Norway in Late July 1997. I have again made extensive use of my journal when preparing this [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 22

31st August 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

COMMENTS ON PART 21 AND YARNS ENSUING FROM THEM I really enjoyed the comments on part 21 and it seems invidious to single out just a few. However, I must apologise to both Wattylers wife [more…]

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Sailing my life away, part 21

17th August 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

INTRODUCTORY In these days, when the world in which we used to live is disintegrating at lightning speed, many are seeking to escape in one way or another, as Mrs Raft once pointed out. I [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away, part 20

3rd August 2021 Ancient Mariner 0

COMMENTS I visited Cambridge and Ely at the start of my summer break.  Here are a couple of pics taken there. I drafted parts 18,19 and 20 of these tales before leaving home to get [more…]

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