Three masted topsail schooner

Following on from yesterday I thought I’d look out an old favourite of mine in my archive. My records show this was made in 1979, an auspicious year as that is when I tied the knot with Mrs.O and also when I circumnavigated Great Britain on HMCC Searcher. So this image had to be made […]

Graduate gradually slips back into the mainstream

Barely a month has elapsed since we opened in Free Range yet the degree results are out and whether we like them or not, it is all water under the bridge. There is no going back and this weekend signifies a major step into my rehabilitation into mainstream society. Looking back on 2 years 10 […]

It was 40 years ago today…..

Scary moment this morning. My mind wandered back to this day 40 years ago when I set off to full time employment as a very junior Civil Servant ostensibly to while away a year being paid whilst I re-sat my failed A-levels. The world was such a different place in those days. Liverpool was still […]

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