How about an Aquastar 74?

I know I'm mostly seen to be involved in Sailing, however the question sometimes comes up - what would I buy if I had a million pounds? (No danger yet unfortunately)

Being based in Cornwall and with great cruising grounds all around, how about this fantastic "Aquastar 74" called Netty Elaine, which would make the ultimate vessel for us to cruise across Falmouth Bay to the Helford River, over weekend in the Scillies, or spend the summer in the Med!

A snip at £995,000 and lying in the river Hamble, she would make a great weekend cruiser, a dive and fishing platform (would the Skipper let us land any fish though), weighs 66 tons, and I like this bit, has a stateroom (for me of course), plus a couple of twin cabins with en-suites that would be great for our friends.

She'll cruise at up to 17 knots, was built by Aquastar in Guernsey, and with nearly 10,000 litres of diesel on board has a range of 1600 nautical miles ( I don't think that's enough to get me to Martinique without refuelling), and is only 74 feet long!

OK I'm not yet really ready to give up sailing, but it would be fun wouldn't it!

New Post about an old thing...
Leaving Mooloolaba on Tony's boat - made it across the Tasman would you believe it!

I must find a picture of me with no hair.
Watch this space!

The Relay for Life - its ON (help!)

I need to let everyone know as soon as possible - this is very serious indeed. My good friend Andy Coote (from the Business League) and his wife Angela have co-opted me into putting together a team in the Relay for Life. For this I NEED YOUR HELP! The relay is a 24 hour walk by a team at any pace at all, in this instance round (and round) Penryn Rugby pitch. The date is July 26th and 27th - the last weekend in July.

Now I should also mention that it is in a very good cause: supporting Cancer research in the UK, and therefore saving potentially thousands of lives.
.. Even some very close to us, quite possibly.
...Even me quite possibly, given that I got over Leukaemia 10 years ago - most probably using drugs and techniques developed by Cancer Research in the UK.

So I have every reason to go and walk round that Rugby pitch for as long as it takes.

You however may well not have had Leukaemia or any similar ailments, and good luck to you because you wouldn't want one of those. But we all know that "There by the grace of God go I", and we all share that fear that ourselves or someone close to us will have to deal with the big C at some point in our lives.

So the point of all this of course is come along, walk around that Rugby pitch with us - and contrary to the slightly sombre note that I seem to have struck I feel it will be a cracking good day. Apart from a beer tent and pasties I am told there will be "a variety of activities" to keep it interesting, and to help the hardy few (me and my "Praetorian guard" I suspect) traipsing through the long hours of the night.

There will be a page on Just Giving .com I think - I must set one up for the team - I'll blog it here to let you know the address. A hardy few have already signed up, we have Jonathan from Arwen design in Truro, Kara from Black Cat PR (plus flat mates), Jason from Well Fit, and a few other volunteers already, after only 2 days of light press-gang activity.

Do contact me via the web site if you're interested, or have a look at http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/relay/ which should tell you everything else you would like to know about the event. At present our team is called the "Falmouth Business League Team", but should other groups, associations want to either join up or create their own teams, they will of course be most welcome. We need 10 to 20 people to make it a viable team, so....

SAVE MY SHOES - JOIN THE RELAY FOR LIFE!

Top 7 tips for having a baby naturally

An article by HypnoBirthing teacher Katharine Graves, a must read for anyone planning to have a baby! It discusses the things that will make a pregnancy and childbirth more natural, healthy, and enjoyable.

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Hi,
Just a quick one, I wanted to share this story from my Mother's blog about the birth of Little baby Nicholas Peter Graves. My sister Mary is also about to give to birth to another little niece, so we wish her and Leon all the veyry best with that too!

Mother's most recent Grandchild, my nephew!

OK it feels like time for more pictures in daft clothes!



There were some great fancy dress opportunities recently, particularly our Penryn Halloween party, and Sam's Pirate day at school.

Here are a couple of pictures of us wearing silly gear.

The tiger face-paint was part of some activities up at Penryn College, where most of the Mums and children spent a happy morning earlier this month.



The fierce Pirate was for a fancy dress day at school.

The Pumpkin was sam's chosen gear for Halloween, we think mainly because it is Orange. He was even persuaded to wear a hat for once!

Here we see the whole (Adams?) family taking their Halloween gear for a test ride.

But finally here is a picture of Stuart our Next door neighbour also at the Halloween party - as his alter ego ("This is the real me!") Pat Slash. Now that IS scary!

An article about plain relief and relaxtation during childbirth and Labour. Katharine Graves argues that traditional methods of pain relief have significant side effects for the newborn baby, and that expectant mothers could do much worse than consider a effective modern alternative - HypnoBirthing.

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