At The End of All Things
April 2017By the beginning of April 2017 I had everything worked out: I would stay here on Jinja until mid-June, spent the summer in the UK and return to Bocas…
April 2017By the beginning of April 2017 I had everything worked out: I would stay here on Jinja until mid-June, spent the summer in the UK and return to Bocas…
March 2017I couldn't hold on any longer. A few days after my 38th birthday, I said goodbye to my mum and dad and made my way back to Bocas. I…
January & February 2017We heralded the new year by sifting through the ashes of the last one. Oh look what survived... But there was some good news from the get-go:…
December 2016I wasn't doing so well on the island on my own, and my dad's 80th birthday was coming up, so I started looking at coming home for the holidays.…
November 2016Bit of a wordy post this one, a lot fewer pics than usual. There are two reasons for that: one is that I didn't take many pictures in November…
October 2016Towards the end of September, I was treated to a visit from my wonderful friend Vicki from "over the water" as us Liverpoolians call Birkenhead. Vicki's an exceptionally talented…
September 2016Jason did a bang-up job looking after Jinja, but after a couple of months on the island it was time for him to move on to pastures new. Luckily,…
August 2016My daft old dad, a huge inspiration for my travels and adventures around the world, had started slipping away from us. Vascular dementia is a cruel condition. I was…
July 2016The EU Referendum: how could we have been so damn stupid? It would be a question I will no doubt be asking for a long time to come. One…
Glastonbury 2016Pretty much as soon as I got back home to Liverpool, I started work on my traditional Glastonbury flag. This year I was torn between making a "Flaggy McFlagface"…