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Moonset – easily one of my top twenty-four favourite hours of day or night

Also my favourite time to begin a wee cruise. To the wheelie bins. Nine and a tad miles round-trip, twice…

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Woomera? We Have A Problem.

Someone crashed the Moon lander. Seriously, how the helly-hell you actually do this to a lock ladder is beyond me.…

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The Manic Metrolopis of Middlewich

I generally take to towns the way a pet duck takes to seeing plum sauce delivered with the weekly groceries,…

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The Throbbing Middle of Nowhere, Still

Having enjoyed two or three of the weeks of faux-Spring/Summer we’re now back to faux-Autumn/Winter, with uber-changeable weather: warm; cold;…

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WP organising a Chips, Gravy, and Chilled Methylated Spirits Evening on the Benches of a Grimsby Park

The Canal Company Ltd to be guest of honour, with first sip from the communal bottle. We’re on a road…

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Interesting Times

UPDATE 07:50 hundred hours o’clock 02/04/2022 – upon checking this morning, equally suddenly – and perhaps equally unreliably – the…

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Spun, Serviced, Spun, and Sodded Off

Still no room at the inn (any of the Anderton moorings). Nothing respeckable, anyway. I might have moored with the…

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A higher than is usual incidence of “characters” in the area

Nutters. Congenital genitals. Tripled numbers of boats stuffed with hodilay-makers who would not ordinarily be seen dead anywhere without first…

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Bugger Bognor!

The Neighbourhood. It’s not Bognor, and King George The Vth is not in residence. We’re in salt territory. The guide…

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Squirrels in the Mist

I hadn’t expected to see twelve squirrels on a fence dancing the Cancan in the original French as I cruised…

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Ejected from Bramble Cuttings by Bouncers from [Unidentified Local] Boat Club

Gone half-past three in the arvo yesterday up oiks some (highly inappropriately proprietorial) chap, nails notices to living trees (something…

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Cruising the Entire Length of The Wardle Canal in Just One Day

Not too wild a sub-expedition; the Wardle Canal begins with the lock that I am moving out of in the…

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