Musings from a muddy island

Update on previous post: Amazingly, Black Diamond and her crew of four made it all the way around the island on Saturday, despite horr...

30th June 2012. Raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution - saving lives at sea every day. Read all about it . ...

My Musings days are well and truly over, but since this blog still gets more hits in a day than my others receive in a month, I thought I...

Peter was born in Southampton on 16 February 1929 at the home of his mother’s parents. When he was a few weeks old, his father George and ...

Gazing at the sunset this evening, as the children and I ate our picnic supper sitting on our upturned dinghy on the beach, reminded me tha...

. . . to Olivia on the most fantastic set of GCSE results! We are all sooooooooooooooo proud and delighted.

On a beautiful evening after a long day's work, we drove over to Copsey's incomparable chip shop in Heybridge, and sat on a bench ov...

On the spur of the moment, some months ago, while investigating the price of a single return flight to Belfast for business purposes, it was...

The West Mersea Town Regatta   has been running since 1838 and forms a wonderfully festive end to Mersea Week  .  This year, as always, the...