Well.. I’m glad I didn’t have a car last night!!! or their may have been nothing left of it by the morning.. as it’s the football ground car park I use when I have a car from Newbury.. and the spaces next to the club house where I park it! Before : During : After […]
OK – No news from CRT, other than an update that states they don’t know if they can bodge the lock – so were turning round. We need to get a hire car this coming weekend, and if the lock was working, this was planned once we got nearer to Watford – but, as we […]
The word it out.. We can now go out.. just not out-out!. CRT have responded to the announcement on Sunday and have extended the movement dispensation another 2 weeks.. So we need to stay put! So, were going to be in the Rugby area for a little while longer yet. Probably not a bad thing.. […]
Time to move the boat to the other side of the canal to top up the water tank. It’s an absolutely glorious day.. the fire is also in lock-down until the winter 🙂 and there are a few more people moving around that should not be! Yes – daily exercise is allowed.. but.. driving to […]
There is still no sign of Luna. Plenty of sightings by the guys at Prescot Manor Farm.. but none by us, and even though we go there daily, call, rattle tins etc.. still nothing. There has been one bonus though.. the glass has fallen out of the fire door for the last time! Over the […]
It’s been a week of work (on the boat also) and a weekend of moving. I’m merging both days into one for this one as there is not a lot.. and we ended up back where we started as we only planned for a services run. We ran out of gas several days ago.. so […]
Its the weekend and time to “try” to get to Banbury.. With luck, and the shortening daylight hours, we should be able to get there on Sunday. And hopefully this rain will stop soon! After getting an escapee “Luna” back on the boat – were good to get going. First stop – Thrupp Canal Cruising […]
The nights are drawing in, its starting to get colder.. but we haven’t broken out the fire quite yet.. It’s still summer until we do.. and were hanging onto “summer” for as long as we can! 😀 Were making a quick run off the K&A, onto the Thames and back again to get a full […]
Our time at Barrow Upon Soar is at an end.. the River Soar is open once more, and its time to move on. The last 4 weeks here (2 unplanned) have been interesting, whilst I do worry about mooring on a river with its ever changing levels, being between a lock and a wier has […]
It was another cold and frosty start this morning.. Canal frozen up – but we have a guest today.. Anna is up and joining us for the journey down the locks (she was up before I was this morning!) 😀 (Going to get shot for that when she see’s this) 5 locks on the cards […]
As were here, and we need to move from Foxton today, were going to run down to Market Harborough.. just to get some supplies in at the shop, and to also say we’ve been there! Set off reasonably early and its a nice-ish day.. bit grey, still cold.. but no rain.. Got to a swing […]
‘Twaz a cold and frosty morning when Keith came out from the boat and said “Sod this.. tiz bloomin cold and frozen up!”.. and promptly took his coffee back back down into the warm (which, oddly enough the fire last night managed to keep the boat at a balmy 12 degrees throughout).. But.. its time […]
Been here for 3 days now.. we did only plan to over-night here, but the weather (and side winds) had other plans for us. But there’s been plenty of “given wood” for me to collect, prep and store on the roof for the fire – so being warm is organised for the coming days – […]
It’s time to move on once more.. we’ve been at Norton Junction for 2 weeks now – happily using the new armco and towpath that the CRT put in in the last 12 months (not sure when, but when we were last here on the way south over a year ago – this stretch was […]
Its getting colder in the morning now.. the fire just about keeps going through the night, but with the cold nights – its battle to not going out whilst were all asleep is a losing one! Were going to head down to Coventry today – but there is a change of plan (twice in one […]