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 […]
Moving from the 48 hour mooring today.. did plan to make a day of moving.. but we got to the lock, found some winter moorings that are not in use (as the CRT site is stating that its 100% vacant).. and as we need to go to the Co-Op – pulled in and moored up.. […]
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 […]
Time to run the River Soar.. Planned to get up at 7am, get some bits done ready for an early start so that we can get to the marina north of Leicester. Didn’t quite work out that way.. alarm went off.. got turned off.. got up a few hours later! oops! There is something nice […]
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 […]
I had my instructions for this morning.. Get some bits in from the shop at the bottom lock before we leave.. as there was no eggs or ham at the shop yesterday.. So.. managed to get a dozen eggs, and a pack of ham from the shop (admittedly, the ham was from the tea room […]
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 […]
It was a late start, planned to be on the move at 9.. didn’t wake up till 10:30.. weekend huh 😀 But we should be OK.. its only an hour and a half to Foxton, and were going to stop soon after that – so its not like we wont get there in the […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
48hrs are up.. time to move on.. come on “Wake up wake up we have locks to do!!!” ” Awww Dad.. Don’t wanna… sleeping…” “Oh look.. Tiggy has given birth to a kitten during the night..”.. “What.. where.. let me see…” Well.. if anything, that got them out of bed! So we have another […]