Phil's notes

Saturday, 20 June 2009

Tenacious visits Dartmouth

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(Sorry Pete, more boats again!) Yesterday the Jubilee Sailing Trust's ship 'Tenacious' sailed into Dartmouth. Hannah (elder dott...
Friday, 19 June 2009

Camping on Jireh

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Ha! My diary has show a possibility for me to take Jireh up river and test out the tent - with a view to taking the girls on a boys-own adve...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009

New Higher Ferry

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Dartmouth received its long-awaited new floating bridge this week, otherwise known as 'The Higher Ferry' (we also have a 'Lower ...
Saturday, 13 June 2009

Weston Super Mare

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We recently camped at Weston Super Mare to reduce our journey time to Bristol each day as Lydia had a week full of iGCSE exams. Travelling b...
Friday, 29 May 2009

Modifications to Jireh? Or maybe not!

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I had a 'wonderful' idea today, to modify Jireh, our Drascombe Lugger sailing dinghy by building a small cabin over part of the cock...

Revision at Little Dartmouth

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In the interest of trying to calm Lydia from frantic revision in preparation for a week of exams next week, we prised her out of her bedroom...
Monday, 25 May 2009

The girls enjoy a spot of May sunshine

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A warm late May bank holiday weekend brought the girls out into the garden to kick-start their tans! Lydia and Julia relax on cheap Sainsbur...
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I retired from the Royal Marines Band Service in 2007 having served for 33 years as a musician, eventually becoming a Director of Music and running my own band. After retirement, I took my family sailing in the Philippines with a view to sailing back to the UK via Australia. However, for many reasons our plans changed and after 9 years living in Dartmouth we have now moved to Totnes .I am married to Lynn and we have four children. Daniel and his wife Sara live in Wales; Hannah is married to another Dan and they live with our grandchildren Sophia, Isaac and Elijah in Newton Abbot. Lydia is married to Tim and they live and work in London and have just had our fourth grandchild, Ernest. Julia married to Angus and they live in Newquay. My time is taken up with playing, writing and teaching music, working as a Debt Coach for the charity Christians Against Poverty, working and volunteering as a hill and mountainside on Dartmoor and the Lake District, and being very involved in our local church.
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