South Devon, photo by Heather Rainsley. I used to consider Facebook to be nothing short of Satan’s work; a vast and pointless timewaste designed purely to enable the emotionally insecure to seek rapid shallow self-affirmation from pseudo-’friends’. My opinion hasn’t changed in the least over time, except that I’ve now accepted that, a] Wasting time is as [...]
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“Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.” – Sir Thomas Beecham I’ve paddled the coast between Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove dozens of times, indeed I love the area so much that I used a photo of Durdle Door as the cover shot of my book. Yesterday, I was privileged to experience the same [...]
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Yesterday’s South West Kayak Show in Exeter was a very pleasant day out; I met up with a few friends and Franco (editor/boss at Pesda Press) to discuss book stuff. I also subjected a captive audience to a talk about recent whitewater trips; many thanks to Robin Lee for helping organise the talk. More photos [...]






























