Micki Gooding

A boat owner’s ABC

How many times, as a boat owner, have you stood and puzzled over a technical dilemma?

Don’t bank on pontoons

Sometimes people come up with brilliant ideas out of the blue – an innovative way of attacking a problem that suddenly reveals the obvious solution from a fog of uncertainty.

I found a zoo

My readers never cease to amaze me with their enthusiastic responses to this column. Last week, I wrote about the diversity of wildlife on our stretch of the Thames and ever since the paper came out, I’ve been bombarded with people telling me their stories about their encounters with wildlife.