Chay Blyth was the first when he circumnavigated in British Steel in 292 days in 1970 in a voyage that some predicted would end in certain death.

Up from the floor, from the depths of the corners, […] along the tin-pipe reaching into the ceiling, crept the summer darkness. Only at a blotch of sunlight did it hesitate, tentative as a leaf-flicker on the whitewashed plaster, then moment by long moment it seeped in darkeningly.

Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!

We hastened to pack up our ‘trumpery’..and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage.