A seriously great evening – as always – praise and thanks be to: If you were there then you were…
Morning Hasn’t Broken
Although Bridge 2 on the Middlewich has. I am sure certain that either end of a brick-built bridge isn’t really…
An Unexploded Rat
Yonder peaceful, quiet, “full of wellness”, “life’s better by water” canals hereabouts are still ridiculously busy with manifold unaccustomed …persons……
Knutsen Bolts and… Stuff
Well that was a lovely forty minutes, spent cleaning out the shower sump-pump. To take a shower aboard a boat…
A Candle To Light My Way
Only for ten or fifteen minutes, before Messrs Sun & Co got out of bed. We moved a bit early…
Crowds and Clouds
Canal boats run like buses. This is nothing to worry about; I run like an arthritic orangutan that’s spotted a…
Yanking My Chain
It’s not just the new Terror Weather that’s yanking my chain (kill the children and the livestock, grab the family…
We Cruised At Dawn. Then Again At Dusk.
You can’t move for boats on this stretch (at least) of the Shroppie at the moment. This is probably because…
Here’s Lookin’ At Ewe, Kid
Where weresheep may safely graze on the hillside – provided that they have independent suspension. No, I said suspension, not…
Rudely Re-Awoken By A Giant Virgin
This damnable weather has returned my sleep pattern to the primordial sludge; I sleep – half a brain, one eye,…
The Great English Bake-Off
I have written a lengthy letter of complaint and sent it to the Times (via the Minister for Weather &…
Drunken Yobbery at Silly O’Clock
Yes that’s me in the phomatograph above. Not a trace of distortion caused by the plastic sheeting; that’s exactly the…
The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company. 