This is what happens when you abandon your boat in the tropics

by Jill Schinas in February 2023

The story so far: Caesar and his parents, Nick and Jill, have left their baby trees to fend for themselves, all alone on a mountainside, and have flown to the other side of the blue planet. With this misdeed they have probably cancelled out most of the Brownie points that they’d earned by planting their fledgling forest (so now they will have to buy more land, somewhere, and plant more trees.) Back aboard Mollymawk, the family is finding out what…

On the Other Side of the World

by Jill Schinas in February 2023

It was the smell which first alerted me to the change in the weather. Aboard a boat, one always hears the raindrops pattering on the deck – one is attuned to hearing the first few, so that one can then rush around, shutting the hatches – but in a house it’s all different. I found that, often, if I hadn’t happened to glance out of the window and seen the change in the view – seen the cloud rolling down…