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For The Avoidance of Doubt
All this 'he said - she said' is wearisome and usually unhelpful but once in a while we feel we must set the record straight and this one...

Renegadenemo
Nov 21, 202120 min read
A message from Debs
Last week it was burgers, the week before petrol and diesel. Next week we don’t know, but we do want our supporters to be prepared. All...

Renegadenemo
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Position Statement. 23 Sept 2021
Further to a meeting of members of the Bluebird Project team last night and much discussion over the past few weeks and months we have...

Renegadenemo
Sep 23, 20213 min read
Just One More
I promised myself I wouldn't get involved in correcting the multitude of errors, falsehoods, lies, call them what you will, in the Ruskin...

Renegadenemo
Aug 16, 20214 min read
Recent Shenanigans
One or two people have suggested that we respond to the press release and timeline published by the Ruskin Museum but having now taken a...

Renegadenemo
Aug 15, 20214 min read


Bute Wednesday 8th August.
We were back at it bright and early on Wednesday. It was hard to believe that we’d been doing this for best part of a week. In actual...
bluebirdk7
Aug 8, 201817 min read


Bute Tuesday 7th August.
Tuesday morning was all a little embarrassing. The day before we’d been stranded for the want of some premium paraffin and today we were...
bluebirdk7
Aug 7, 201823 min read


Bute Monday 6th August.
We were all a little shipwrecked come Monday morning. We’d hit a wall with the fuel situation and couldn’t do much of anything until we...
bluebirdk7
Aug 6, 201825 min read


Bute Sunday 5th August.
Sunday was a bit different. The tail-wagging excitement was giving way to the more usual sense of being at work and on a mission such as...
bluebirdk7
Aug 5, 201818 min read


Bute Saturday 4th August
Saturday dawned clear, still and warm, though overcast but nothing on Earth could diminish the sense of excitement and the buzz around...
bluebirdk7
Aug 4, 201815 min read


Journey to Bute Friday 3rd August
We were up, showered, breakfasted and at the workshop bright and early on the Friday morning ahead of our trip to Bute, the first day of...
bluebirdk7
Aug 3, 20188 min read


Isle of Bute.
I think I was fifteen, my mate Barnsey was a smidge older and we’d made up our minds – we were going to the Clyde. Sea angling was our...
bluebirdk7
Aug 2, 201821 min read


From The Grave to the Cradle
As the rebuild of K7 advanced steadily we always kept looking ahead to what was next, what we were going to need, what we must plan for,...
bluebirdk7
Jul 3, 201810 min read


Nowt like having a deadline to ramp things up
Coming thick and fast now – nowt like having a deadline to ramp things up but in fairness it’s perfect timing. We now find ourselves...
bluebirdk7
May 15, 201815 min read


It’s great to be back
Ahhh, it’s great to be back and as there’s so much going on I thought I’d throw another diary together straight away. Had forgotten how...
bluebirdk7
Apr 25, 201820 min read


Said I wasn’t going to write any more diaries
Said I wasn’t going to write any more diaries. The fun had gone out of it. You see, the only part I actually enjoy writing is the rubbish...
bluebirdk7
Apr 6, 201827 min read


Diary December 2016
I managed a little more controversy last time from hopeless dog owners and that’s always a laugh but I’d not reckoned on just how many...
bluebirdk7
Dec 16, 201637 min read


Diary February 2016
Dear Lord, there are some tragic people out there! I got into a world of trouble last time I wrote because, apparently, I didn’t care...
bluebirdk7
Feb 10, 201637 min read


Diary September 2015
Well, well well… it’s been a while since I last sat down to write. I never seem to find the time these days. Much has gone on since last...
bluebirdk7
Sep 9, 201526 min read


Diary November 2014
Never mind fixing boats, I thought I’d fix my dog last week so I took her to the vets, menopausal old mutt that she is. Lots of blood,...
bluebirdk7
Nov 12, 201414 min read
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