Stargazing

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Peter Hill. Stargazing

Contents

Introduction

The Tavern Bar

The Interview

Getting There: By Train, Boat and Tractor

The Mysteries of the Light Chamber

Instructions for a Nuclear War

Better Than an All-Day-Breakfast

Summer of the Creep

Cooking Up a Storm

A Change of Crew

Heard Chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay

Great Chieftain o’ the Pudding Race

A Brief History of Lighthouses

Shore Leave I: a Surfeit of Choice

Paddy’s Milestone

Rock of Ages

The Lost World

The Island Visitors

Fire bombs in Dresden, mackerel off Ailsa Craig

Sex in the Bush

Light Without Flesh

Shore Leave 2: The Edinburgh Festival

The Seaman’s Mission, Oban – The Whirleybirds

The Dalek Invasion of Hyskeir

Nautical Scrabble

Hitchcock Revisited

Ocean Necklace

Copyright

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This book is dedicated to:

‘The Last Lighthouse Keeper’ – wherever you are.

.....

‘Often I tried the frightening way of “reality,”

Where things that count are profession, law, fashion finance,

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