Around the summer solstice I like to mark the event by inviting a few young friends to dance naked on the lawn, and I've asked Prince Andrew to sponsor it.
Hereabouts though was once the largest inland mere in the UK, boggy terrain that almost sank the world's first passenger railway before it had even begun.
I like to think should we be inundated again and the wood preserved in peat, many centuries from now Melvyn Bragg ~ who'd still be alive ~ may host a radio program where archaeologists suggest that this is a site where Colin's ideas went to die.
The pic concludes construction: at left the first to be used for test-rigging the motor and rudder, at right the second for testing on water and at rear the beta-product to test our stock design from the website.
