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Pauline Fisk, telling the sea Part I
What do you recall about the sea? Two memories - both to do with Guernsey: 1. The long journey from London to Southampton on the Boat Train. Arriving beside the dock in the dark of the night,...
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Pauline Fisk, telling the sea Part II
What part does the sea play in your life now? For me the sea is a sort of touching base. It’s my home page, if you like. Last year I returned to Guernsey and walked round the island in the early...
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Pauline Fisk, telling the sea Part III
What can you tell me about your book “Telling the Sea”? The first thing I can tell you is that of all my novels, this is the one I didn’t want to finish. All the while I was writing, the precious...
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The Dance of the Dock
When my turn came to step out on a floating finger pier the first time, I watched it roll. I saw the gaps where the rough, steel pintles banged and flexed each time a wake passed beneath. I saw the...
View ArticleThe Terror of the South China Sea
The cliché image of the pirate is still a lot like Blackbeard, with a side-order of Long John Silver as played by Robert Newton – a swaggering, mad-eyed, bushy-bearded bear of a man, quite possibly...
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Lundy – Feature 2 of 3
The Lundy Pony and a day trip I’ve never forgotten……. This photograph was taken around 1969. The three passengers on the left were me, aged twelve, my Mum and my Grandad. We were on the ferry from...
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New England Island Memories
Great Salt Pond, New Shoreham, RI USA, from our cockpit Most of us love islands. My daughter and her husband spent two weeks island hopping aboard a forty-five foot Beneteau in the British Virgins a...
View ArticleA Night Dive by Day
According to Maori legend, the demi-god Tu-te-raki-whanoa carved the landscape of Fiordland with his greenstone axe. He cleaved long grooves, at first sloppily in the south, then with increasing...
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