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Month: April 2021

How Long Does it Take To Turn A Narrowboat Around?

With a light but disconveniencingly-vectored breeze, about three minutes. However, to get somewhere on the canal wide enough to even … More

boatsthattweet, canal, england, narrowboat, river, trust

Where am we?

Company comes and goes on these moorings. I feel as Jim Rockford must have felt in the opening scenes of … More

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A Thoroughly Gloria’s Cruise

INsomnia INsomnia our battle…cry… St Trinians St Trinians shall neh-ver die… 0500hrs this morning. I think that I may be … More

boating, C&RT, canal, cruise, england, narrowboat, river, trust

A(nother) Splendiferous Early-Morning Round-Trip Trip to the Bins, the Water Tap, and the Outside Lav

The header image is of the Cardinal performing a fouetté virage en trois points in the winding hole at Bunbury … More

boating, canal, countryside, england, narrowboat, river, trust

BROXBOURNE FLOTILLA PROTEST

Originally posted on National Bargee Travellers Association – London Branch:
On Saturday (17 April) Broxbourne’s Canal was filled with a flotilla of boats, all protesting against…

Oh but wait – it gets better…

To the north of me lies Calveley Services (run by C&RT) – no hot water (they can’t mend an ordinary … More

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Signs of the times

Day One of the re-opened here’s your “freedom” back on strings hire-boat season, and the jewel in the canal crown … More

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Comestibles, Canal Rozzers, Cruises

Deny this one too if you will, my dear dissembling, double-dealing, perfidious, mendacious, pecksniffian, weasel-hearted, Janus-faced Watery Wellness Trust Ltd. … More

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An(other) Early(ish) Morning Walk up to ‘Canal Closed’

By ‘eck it were reet misty this morning, and wi’ a touch o’frost, too. Mist doesn’t actually photograph terribly well … More

boating, canal, CRT, england, mist, narrowboat, river, trust

A Really Rubbish Cruise

‘pparently tis some sort of “Bank Holiday” weekend, some kind of Christian festival. These things, like days of the week, … More

boating, C&RT, canal, england, narrowboat, river, trust
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