If you’re interested in knowing a little more about H.W. Tilman, the ‘Collected Edition‘ project, or if you just want to get a ‘heads up’ on the speaker you might…
Read moreThe 2018 diary is starting to fill up…
From Poole to the Peak District, from Limehouse Basin to Liverpool, the 2018 ‘Travels with Tilman’ talk diary looks full even before 2017 comes to a close. A few more…
Read moreTilman on the US East Coast – Winter 2018/19?
Having recently spent a couple of hours with my small grandchildren on a restored Delaware Bay Oyster Schooner, I’ve been reminded just how appreciative the folk of the US eastern…
Read moreConsider them both, the sea and the land
Some of us have had the good fortunate to have made passages under sail in the blue water of the deep oceans. Out there, with neither mechanical nor electrical noise pollution,…
Read moreOut of the blue, into the fan
Watching the recent BBC TV documentary about Andrew Marr, ‘My Brain and Me‘, brought the lessons from my own stroke recovery sharply back into focus. After watching the programme, I…
Read moreFrom punched cards to connected kettles
I’m a ‘big picture‘ person, something of a mixed blessing. It means that while I’m pretty good at predicting and understanding the overall consequences of a complex set of actions…
Read moreJames May, you are mistaken sir!
In James May’s episode of the ‘The Reassembler’ on January 4th, 2016, he took the easy route of reassembling the ‘Two hundred and thirty five components’ of a Kenwood Chef…
Read moreThe St Peter’s dray is drawn by unicorns, or so it would seem.
I’ve been searching for this stuff for a while now. Supposedly being carefully test marketed through NISA stores, a trawl round the five outlets within a ten mile radius has shown…
Read moreHooray for the Red, White and Blue
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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