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Return to Stoke Bruerne, 5 Minutes at the Tiller of NB Verity & a Gift of Beer!
Waking up to blue skies with a day of cruising ahead is an experience to be savoured at this time of year! This was the scene at Cosgrove this morning:I am now sat on the 24 hour moorings at Stoke...
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Onward to Bugbrooke, The Issue of Lighting & Playing the Human Angler-Fish in...
The weather today mimicked yesterday perfectly! Sunny blue skies in the morning, overcast and very cold in the afternoon!Expecting very little traffic again I was surprised to see two boats pass me...
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Dawn Church Bells, a Visit to Daventry & Photos From a While Ago!
The rain is thundering down here at Weedon now! Good timing too, I only just walked in through the door!Yesterday was a very easy jaunt up from Bugbrooke. It's a truism on boats that as soon as you fix...
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Climbing Buckby Lock Flight Again...
Not long after I dumped the rubbish and left Weedon I noticed I was being followed...By the good folks on NB The Teal! They closed the gap between us when I moored up briefly at Bridge 21 to visit The...
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Narnia Tunnel
I've been over a week in the Braunston area now - some days I was pottering around with various small boat related projects, some days I worked on the Navigator, some days I taught myself to make fire...
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Red Wolves, Frozen Lines & THE BLIZZARD BEGINS!
My first day's cruising in the snow! Aside from not being able to get the lines to do as I wanted because they spent most of the day frozen solid, it was one of the most memorable day's cruising ever....
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Back Onboard! Snowbound for sure... Making hot water bottles for the engine...
So now I'm back onboard the good ship after the frolics of Christmas and New Year, both of which were supremely good fun. All of my hoping that the coldest weather was behind us seems to have been in...
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Yardley Gobion Wharf: Then & Now!
My mum took both of these photos in another of the worst winters in living memory, the dreaded winter of '81. I thought that, given our current white-out, and the fact that I'm moored right on the spot...
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The Floor & the Ceiling are now Precisely Where They Should Be! Musing on a...
I'm happy to say that work has been progressing well and as a result of which the new floor is now down in the saloon! Which means I have the use of the table back and I have the ability to have guests...
View ArticleThe Iceman - erm - Goeth?
To echo the sound that seems to be resounding around the system at the moment - I can add the Yardley Gobion stretch of the Grand Union to the list of locations no longer in the grip of ice! So...
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Halted by Ice Again!
An early start saw me stoking the fire that had stayed in overnight (HURRAY! I'm getting good at this...) and taking on coal and fuel as soon as Yardley Wharf opened. Then onto Cosgrove, and the sun...
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Still Manacled to New Bradwell, Local Exploration & I'm being Spied Upon!
Checking Google Reader just now revealed that the scallywags on NB Albert have been taking sly photos of Wils! The rambunctious swines! Of course I am extremely flattered, this is a first for me, a...
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Golden Dinosaurs!
Over a month since the last post! Arrrhhh, the shame!It's been an extremely hectic "just over a month" too, until recently I was still under the impression that I was hemmed in by Winter Stoppages on...
View ArticleLife on a Salvaged Car Ferry and MORE ICE!
What's with all the ICE?! We still have blazing sunshine from 'ere to there, and ice, ice, more ice on the canal! I'm getting a little sick of ice but as of this morning, it's back. It's not thick, but...
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Pop Pop Ponyo, Peter Payne's Pulsejets & Pianos: Past Predilection & Present...
Still in Milton Keynes, where every wood hunting trip reveals an increasing amount of miniature greenery pushing its way sunwards, so spring can't be too far away... Final amendments for the spring...
View ArticlePlanting Trees, Eliza Carthy and SUNSHINE!
Yesterday I could be found with the Buckingham Canal Society at the site where the canal walks through wildlife reserve territory between Buckingham and Milton Keynes, putting faces to names and...
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More Decorating, Sunny Days in Campbell Park and a Wintry Video at Blisworth...
Interior decoration is the current occupation here onboard the good ship, and I must enjoy something about it because as eight o'clock rolled around this morning, I found myself with a paintbrush in...
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Wilshamstead: Formerly White Stork & Towpath Tree Planting Photos!
Knowing that Wils is an ex-hireboat, today I scoured the net briefly to see if I could find any mention of her days as a hireboat - and here it is!It's the only reference I could find and there can be...
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A Plumbing Adventure
Powering down to Fenny Stratford two days ago, I visited Halfords in Bletchley to get a new inner tube fitted to my bike and then I tried Wickes next door for a few plumbing supplies that I required...
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Me Toby: Receiver of Licenses, Washer of Clothes, Putter-Upper of Washing Lines!
In other words, Wils is now adorned with shiny new purple license squares! Has it been a year already? Well, very nearly, it'll be one year since Jem and I moved onboard a week tomorrow.Today, out of...
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Sleeping Seven Onboard, Tunnels, Lambs, Darts, Ale & Mangle Bidding!
So I probably should have comemorated the first anniversary of Jem and I moving onboard on the 31st March, but apart from having little to report I was too busy preparing the boat for the imminent...
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Coincidental Ongoing Coverage of NB Caxton!
Thanks to the wonders of mobile blogging, and in the spirit of my incidental coverage of their progress through this neck of the woods, I can report that NB Caxton has passed Campbell Park!Well I have...
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First Ducklings!
I know I'm not the first to have blogged about the arrival of this year's ducklings, but I promised myself I'd finally get around to adding an entry here as soon as I saw them. And saw them I 'ave!In...
View ArticleThe return after much radio silence...
It's certainly been a long time since anything was written here! The usual commitments personal and professional are to blame. The truth is it's been a bit of a rollercoaster for us over the last six...
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Moving on from Weedon, tackling tunnels with a 60 watt bulb & apologies to...
The trees are changing colour and it has been noticably colder when we've been cruising lately, autumn must be here. Let's hope it doesn't bring the dreaded Autumn Blight (the condition in which one's...
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