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High Seas Adventures: May 2012
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Sunday, 20 May 2012. Novel about my wife. In other words, this book is really good. I read it in a couple of days. It was particularly odd to be reading it around the time of my 39th birthday, as this is a key event in the main character's life. Links to this post. Wednesday, 16 May 2012. Book review: "Survive the Savage Sea" and "Lifeboat". The final chapter of "Survive the Savage Sea" contained some commentary on ...
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High Seas Adventures: Passage to the Seychelles
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Saturday, 28 June 2014. Passage to the Seychelles. But around 5am, the autopilot failed. I had no warning, I just had to grab the wheel. Everyone was asleep. I got us back on course and shouted to D. He came up and tried various things but it was gone. I helmed till 9am. I hadn't helmed much in years but I reminded myself that occasionally I do this for fun. And at least the sun was up now. Technically we were forer...
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Darny's Vegan Recipes and Upcycling Crafts: January 2011
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Darny's Vegan Recipes and Upcycling Crafts. Thursday, 20 January 2011. The middle of last year I found some utterly gorgeous quilting fabric with fire engines on it, which having a lad who is mad on the big red machines I couldn't resist buying a wee bit of, just enough to add some excitement to a shirt. And so the fabric sat, and sat, and sat waiting for me to make a shirt (procrastinate, moi? Master 4 is in bed right now, so yet to gage the coolness of the garment, but I think he'll be stoked. I'm foll...
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High Seas Adventures: March 2014
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Tuesday, 25 March 2014. Written from Sri Lanka where we finally have some internet.). A Passage to India. Our neighbour back home entered Port Blair during WW2 on a navy boat, where he was fired on by the Japanese who had taken Port Blair and had a gun embankment at Ross Island in the harbour entrance. So we took some photos for him to show him the place where he was wounded and lucky to survive. You don't have to w...
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High Seas Adventures: Life in Chagos
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Saturday, 28 June 2014. We are anchored between Ile Fouquet and Ile Takamaka in 4 metres of sand. Black-tipped reef sharks constantly circle the boat and it is a challenge to catch a fish before a shark eats it. We have lost two of our five lures already so we'll probably lose them all before we go, but in the meantime it is nice to have fresh food. They said, since they couldn't persuade their women to come! D is a...
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High Seas Adventures: When to cross the Indian Ocean?
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Friday, 1 August 2014. When to cross the Indian Ocean? The great thing about the Indian Ocean," my friend Behan commented, "is that you can start your crossing at any month of the year.". She's right - but your timing does affect where you go and what you get to see and do on way. So the factors affecting the timing of your crossing are actually things that happen later. These are:. 3 Piracy near the Seychelles.
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High Seas Adventures: Madagascar to South Africa in 7 days
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Saturday, 8 November 2014. Madagascar to South Africa in 7 days. There comes a time when you are about to do a long ocean passage when you just want to do it already. So, we had been in Madagascar for just over a month, and we loved it, but we were now checked out, and waiting impatiently for a weather window that would allow us to leave for South Africa. You will love it! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Us: The...
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High Seas Adventures: July 2012
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Sailing around the Indian Ocean with our three children, with no particular goal in mind. Monday, 9 July 2012. Portrait of a Lady' by Henry James. I bought this book and then took a year to get around to reading it. I found it fascinating and definitely wanted to get to the end. However, there were some things about it that really annoyed me. I also found the constant harping on about whether people are 'American' or not to be quite boring. Although no doubt this is why James is still studied quite w...
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Darny's Vegan Recipes and Upcycling Crafts: August 2011
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Darny's Vegan Recipes and Upcycling Crafts. Sunday, 28 August 2011. Upcycling old blankets into new. I've been doing lots of upcycling recently - stuff I've been meaning to do for ages and finally got the time for, so I'm putting out a One a Week Challenge to everyone to see if they can upcycle one item each week. This week my challenge is old wool blankets. Covering these wasn't difficult, the biggest tip I can give you is IRON, iron everything! Once held together properly I trimmed the edges and did a ...
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Darny's Vegan Recipes and Upcycling Crafts: July 2010
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Darny's Vegan Recipes and Upcycling Crafts. Monday, 26 July 2010. Whenever we have mashed potatoes we seem to end up with leftovers, I'm not sure if it's a comment on my mashing skills or if I just cook too much, but with leftover potato you have the beginning of some really nice fritters, although you could probably throw anything in the batter and it'd taste good! All measurements are approximate, so feel free to mess around with it). 1/2 cup plain flour. 1/4 cup cornflour (the thickener type). Another...