Ripening Nicely

The next chapter in life

  • UK

    Maximisation!

    1st April 2025 / No Comments

    In our Dubai days, some friends and I coined the term “weekend maximisation”.  This meant squeezing as many fun activities as possible into each weekend.  It was just for a…

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    Bryan
  • Hobbies and Activities,  UK

    That’s what it’s all about!

    7th December 2023 / No Comments

    Here in South Devon, locals call outsiders ‘blow-ins”.  I like the expression “blow-in”. For me it creates an image of a seed being carried on the wind to land gently…

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    Helen
  • Hobbies and Activities,  Sustainability,  UK

    Chaos!

    3rd October 2023 / 1 Comment

    We’ve been back in the UK a few months now.  It’s been great moving back to our “other life” and kind of picking up where we left off almost a…

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    Bryan
  • UK

    This Old House

    1st December 2022 / 1 Comment

    I feel like we’ve really landed on our feet here in England.  We had a checklist of sorts when we bought our little Victorian end of terrace house and it’s…

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    Bryan
  • Sailing,  UK

    Learning To Sail

    30th October 2022 / No Comments

    Realising that it’s been over two and a half years since we set off from Dubai on our sailing yacht Aroha, now seemed like a good time to learn how…

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    Bryan
  • Hobbies and Activities,  Sailing,  Thailand,  UK

    Going Up, Going Down

    25th August 2022 / No Comments

    I’ve been back in the UK for several weeks now, but for a while I was starting to feel a bit “stuck” in Thailand.  I didn’t want to say too…

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    Bryan
  • UK

    Life’s a Beach

    1st August 2022 / 1 Comment

    Life has brought us many twists and turns over the last few years, and I think we have proven ourselves to be reasonably adept at dealing with whatever comes our…

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    Helen
  • India,  Sailing,  UK

    On The Move Again

    13th February 2022 / No Comments

    We’ve been here in the UK for almost three and a half months and the exciting time to move on (again!) has come!  Tomorrow we head back to India to…

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    Bryan
  • UK

    We Bought a House!

    26th January 2022 / 4 Comments

    We bought a house!  It’s quite an exciting change, and after renting for so long over the past decades it’s nice to have a base that we can really call…

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    Bryan
  • Sustainability,  UK

    Meet Daphne!

    2nd December 2021 / No Comments

    This is our Renault Zoe.  Her names’s Daphne.  She’s pretty much the EV (electric vehicle) version of the popular little Clio.  But being fully electric, she’s zero emissions at source. …

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    Bryan
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