We knew that we were not going far until 12pm today.. as the locks would not be open.. so we set off about 11:30 – plenty of time to get to the locks before noon and hopefully be the first down.. Were we the first down.. no chance.. There were 5 waiting to go down.. […]
I will be needing a car for the end of this week and a few phone calls have dictated that we need to go down the Montgomery Canal, as there is a hire company in Owestry and they will pick me up from Queen’s Head – so its a call to the CRT to book […]
Last leg of the weekend move done and we can stay put for a few days, get a car and re-locate a bit further down the canal to a less restrictive location on Wednesday. We (or I) decided it would be easier to get collected using an address in Audlem.. rather than trying to get […]
In preparation for a weekend of moving, we decided to go to the Radford Bank Pub and Carvery for an pre-weekend meal. And a very good and cheap meal it was.. £50 for all four of us.. including drinks! I think we may need to do a quick detour back here on the way back […]
Its a weekend of moving.. the car’s gone back, we’ve had our last Friday night takeaway from the local chippie.. and were good to go! Set off early-ish on Saturday to try to get as far as we could. We have supplies for the weekend, but with a busted fridge (the compressor finally died!) and […]
An evening with mains.. ohh such joy! The batteries had a good charge overnight and we even had the immersion running for hot water.. and we hardly made a dent in the £2 minimum we had to put on the power pole to use it. Well – it did us for what we needed, and […]
Damn it’s cold!.. and wet!.. and windy!.. From such sunny calm summer weather yesterday.. to today.. certainly not wanting to move today (Daw let the cats out accidentally.. ah.. a reason to stay.. nope.. he got them back.. damn) – so we need to move as we ran out of gas last night – so […]
Its been a long day today.. We wanted to get to the other end of the Erewash canal and not have to stop in the middle, so that we have a good run on the River Trent and the Trent &Mersey Canal on Sunday. Anna’s off this coming weekend to see friends down south, and […]
Time to move further down river.. Looking to get to Barrow upon Soar today, mainly as I’ve had my instructions.. “We need a shop!” so shops it is.. and there’s a Co-Op and a post office there – so that’s the plan for today.. Looking at the closures on the River Trent, the need for […]
We’ve stretched everything as far as we can, and we need some cat and dog food before we have a riot on our hands.. so we need to get moving – and of course – the canal froze up again last night, and its a thick one.. so this is going to be heavy going […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
After several weeks in Braunston.. fighting for a signal.. dealing with a listing boat.. hoping the only spot for miles that has a signal (occasionally) is still there when we get back from a water run.. I’m glad to be on the move again. It’s been a mild few weeks here, and having the Boathouse […]
A journey of several days covers the run to Braunston.. It ended up being a full 14 days in Newbold on Avon, moving once during that time just to do a services run, and to come back to roughly where we were. There was 2 needs for a car in the end, so it was […]