Welcome home, Pauline. I hope you're feeling better after your break.
It nearly broke my heart when, at the end of last summer, ill health persuaded me to sell my boat. Based in the Walton Backwaters on the Essex-Suffolk border, I had hoped to spend the rest of my summers dreamily sailing up and down the rivers Stour, Orwell, Deben and Ore/Alde. This summer I find myself really pleased to have escaped the misery of a cold, damp floating hutch, listening to the howling of the wind