Captain JP's log

  I haven't posted for a long time, but it's blog anniversary day and I've recently been in Barcelona where managed to see the A...

My last art post was about the simply awful Hogarth exhibition at the Tate, which was just terrible , having no interest in art or Hogarth o...

 I haven't posted for a bit, but recently did another canal walk so thought it would be useful to add to the list, namely the Slough Arm...

10 years ago today was the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony - before Brexit, Covid and all the rest. Sigh! What an amazing summer...  

How was your Platinum Jubilee? I managed to see the flypast and part of the (totally bonkers) pageant.   

 Out for trials on the Thames, the London Fire Brigade has a new fire boat - very smart!

Back on the 28th March I spotted the PLA launch and this rather elegant traditional rowing craft heading down river. Any ideas what this was...

One evening the skies miraculously cleared, so I took the camera with the biggest lens I've got and star tracker down to the local park....

 As we all know, the last two years have been weird in many ways. Life changed, plans were cancelled and a new normal became normal.  So it ...

As with many sailors, I have fond memories of the Swallows and Amazons book series and the 1973 film of the first book. I've posted befo...

Been a bit breezy in London as storm Eunice plus some wind against tide made the Thames a bit choppy (above).  I've seen some damaged ro...

This week we lost a blogging friend when Bonnie, behind the Frogma blog , passed on. I never met her in person, but through blogging I felt ...

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great New Year's eve, celebrating we'd made it through another Covid dominated year. Fingers cros...

I've just been to the Tate Britain to see the Hogarth and Europe exhibition, and rather than reviewing it thought it might be better to...

Carshalton Pond is one of the heads of the Wandle, and this walk, the last on my Wandle Trail , was to find the other, somewhere in the urba...