cybercrofter

The politics of polar bears and climate change is getting interesting. They are undoubtedly the 'poster bears' of the stop climate c...

Tidying up the boat for the winter, we've packed up all the pilotage books, maps and guides, and brought them home to keep them dry. T...

It's a beautiful season. Yesterday it was sunny and glorious and we took the boat out for our last sail of the year. Although we set o...

I am not the only writer for whom bears are their muse, and I'm not thinking here of nursery rhymes, doggerel or poems for childr...

A goldcrest flitted into my writing turret while I was scribbling. It panicked, battered itself on the windows trying to find a way out, ...

Before Pytheas set out from Massalia on his way to these northern waters in 320BC, I wonder if he made an offering at the temple of Apollo?...

I am back onshore for a while, having spent a lot of the summer so far on board Each Mara, our trusty boat, exploring the shores, anc...