5th July 2020: Death of a Yacht
Sometime, probably in summer 2017, I saw the young Frenchman who was renting the house adjoining mine paddling the hull of a yacht back towards...
Diary Entry / 2020 / May-July: "Lock-Down Continues"
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/07/2020 · Last modified 29/07/2020
Sometime, probably in summer 2017, I saw the young Frenchman who was renting the house adjoining mine paddling the hull of a yacht back towards...
Diary Entry / 2020 / May-July: "Lock-Down Continues" / Covid-19
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/07/2020 · Last modified 18/12/2023
[I downloaded the data and plots for this at the start of July but then have been distracted by other tasks so I’m finishing writing...
NCI (2020) / NCI Watch-Keeping Summary
by Peter Taylor · Published 27/07/2020 · Last modified 30/10/2021
This is a summary record of my NCI watch keeping periods and other NCI activities during July to December 2020 kept for my own records. On...
I moved into the house in 1996 and until 2010 the river frontage of the end-of-jetty “shed” was how it had originally been constructed. But...
Diary Entry / 2020 / Aug-Dec: "Still ashore"
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/08/2020 · Last modified 11/09/2020
It’s taken a long time but I finally finished painting the shed river frontage! Having finished the right-hand side, which is exposed to the elements,...
Another period of hot weather is starting and I caught the ebbing tide for a late afternoon swim. Drying myself on the jetty I was...
Diary Entry / 2020 / Aug-Dec: "Still ashore"
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/09/2020 · Last modified 20/01/2021
(This is a copy of a post I wrote for the NCI Calshot Tower “Blog”.) The photo shows a family standing at the water’s edge...
Diary Entry / Aug-Dec: "Still ashore"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/09/2020 · Last modified 22/06/2021
Having finished the desperately overdue task of painting the riverside windows of the shed, I was conscious that the living room French doors needed attention....
Day 1 (Saturday): This trip had an inauspicious start! On the morning of my flight I discovered that the plane left London Gatwick airport at...
Day 2 (Sunday): Woke up early (helped by jet lag) and walked out to find that the local diner was closed at that time on a...