Attention All Shipping – Charlie Connelly

Attention All Shipping - Charlie Connelly
Attention All Shipping – Charlie Connelly

Neat concept – a collection of chapters constructed around the Shipping Forecast. With snippets of history, geography and daily life in far flung places, connected by this iconic thrice daily broadcast on the BBC, it’s a nice read, particularly when you are very familiar with some of the places he writes about – sitting on the seafront at Walton on the Naze looking out at Sealand while reading the chapter on Thames being a personal case in point.

The sole irritation was Charlie Connelly’s occasional lapses in planning ahead, beyond getting to the coasts and islands covered in each chapter – no mean feat considering when it was written. Still, “when needs must” does result in some good anecdotes and encounters.

Author page: Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast – Charlie Connelly