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Out of the blue, into the fan

By Bob Comlay 22nd February 2017 Uncategorised

As my ongoing ‘sabbatical’ continues to morph into something more akin to ‘retirement’, I can now look back and finally admit that maybe stress did actually play a part in…

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34 years on, Yachting Monthly sets the record straight on Tilman

By Bob Comlay 16th November 2016 H W Tilman No Comments

The December 2016 issue of Yachting Monthly pays tribute to the Skipper in style, although I should probably admit to a certain editorial bias here since much of the copy was…

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‘Mischief in Patagonia’ – from the new H.W. Tilman Collected Edition

By Bob Comlay 11th November 2016 H W Tilman No Comments

In 1953, after a brief and unsatisfying stint as a British consul in Myanmar, then Burma, Bill Tilman decides to return to the mountains, this time using the sea as…

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‘Travels with Tilman’ at the Royal Cruising Club dinner

By Bob Comlay 4th November 2016 H W Tilman No Comments

  On  the 15th December, 1970, Bill Tilman sent me a letter which remarked on a pitch he gave to the Royal Thames Yacht Club, a letter I’ve been reading as…

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Hooray for the Red, White and Blue

By Bob Comlay 31st October 2016 "Life the universe and everything" No Comments

As the US presidential election candidates stoop lower and lower, this image of urban decay taken while working in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2008 seems to reflect the overall decay of the…

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An end to procrastination

By Bob Comlay 31st October 2016 H W Tilman, The IT Industry No Comments

(Rambling post warning!) For around eight years I’ve been procrastinating, something us blokes do well (so I’ve been told). The old Tilman ‘Anecdotes and Photographs’ website which I put together…

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Musing on Moore’s Law

By Bob Comlay 5th July 2016 The IT Industry No Comments

[Originally written in January, 2010, a few weeks before my management played their ‘trump card’ by changing the pension rules and elbowing out a significant percentage of their intellectual property] I…

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