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View Harry May on the Coast programme talking about the loss of his family home in 1963. Click HERE to view

I am referring to Easter 2024 of course – the holiday when it rained and the gales blew and Lyme Regis was half full of brave people determined to make the best of the weather. We hardly sailed on the boats at all during Easter as the storms were unrelenting but I did manage four […]

It stops you in your tracks and makes you stare. At the bottom of the picture, on the right  hand side that figure, just barely visible, is my wife Christine heading in for her daily early morning swim. This is something I couldn’t even contemplate. The air temperature was around 2 or 3°C and the […]

The annual New Year’s Day fancy dress charity dip in the sea organised by the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis was this year in aid of The Alzheimer’s Society and Asthma + Lung UK. Hardy souls braved the chilly waters, many in wonderful outfits. Click on the photo above to see the video with thanks […]

View Harry May on the Coast programme talking about the loss of his family home in 1963.             Click HERE to view

Just on its own, it’s a very special picture but it actually zooms right in on my store on The Cobb with the huge waves breaking  just behind. My store is right where the orange/red superstructure on the fishing boat meet. Apart from the giant waves that battered the coast for several hours that morning, […]

On the show ‘the castaway’ talks about their life and chooses eight records they would take with them if marooned on a desert island. I agreed immediately but August is a very busy time of the year for us with our boat trips. So it wasn’t until things quietened down in late October that I […]

It’s on the endangered list and thanks to global warming there are more and more of them off the southwest coast of England! As the sea around here gradually warms up, we have seen a huge decline in shoals of mackerel and the brown crab that make up so many people’s favourite sandwich. However, for […]

View Harry May on the Coast programme talking about the loss of his family home in 1963.             Click HERE to view