Only for ten or fifteen minutes, before Messrs Sun & Co got out of bed. We moved a bit early … More
Tag: boat
Hire Boat Change-Over Day(s)
See what I did there? Squeezed in a cheeky phomatograph of the Cardinal (albeit locationally misleading, since we’re a hundred … More
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 … More
Squirrel attack
Mad squirrels and Englishmen go boating in the noon-day sun. Was sat sitting peacefully, thinking about sitting some more, when … More
Going Gas-Free – I Hope – with a Remoska
On the Advice of Lettice I have bought one of these… a Remoska. [Seriously, me ol’ fruit-bat’s knitted willy-warmer; great … More
One fine day in the middle of the night #narrowboat #boating #England
It is a Bank Holiday weekend here in Ing-er-lund. Perversely, the The Weather is remarkably good. It isn’t usually so … More
An Inspectre Calls #narrowboat #boating #boatsthattweet
Yesterday, when all my tribbles seemed so far away, a gas-qualified Boat Safety Scheme Inspector called – and a very … More
Loved the Anderton Boat Lift #narrowboat #boating
The Anderton Boat Lift raises and lowers boats some 50′ between the Trent & Mersey Canal and the River Weaver. … More
Two new and reciprocal collective nouns – a bow-thruster of hoorays and a hooray of bow-thrusters #narrowboat #boating
We scooted along, yesterday, at Sparrowfart O’Clock, services for the visiting of – while also endeavouring to sneak up on … More
A ghost, a drunk, and a bridge too far – a walk through Middlewich #narrowboat #boating
We’ve got neighbours at the moment, the Cardinal and I – and, for once in my moanfest, I’m happy with … More
Cool, dull, grey, overcast, breezy – and photobombed by one of Father Nature’s thugs #boating #narrowboat
Before I say anything else I will say that the photobombed image here is not photoshopped, it is as it came … More
Rain, sunshine, wind, calm, overnight ice, begging ducks, expert swans and twin-tub laundry #narrowboat #boating #canal
Middle of bloody May and I’m still clearing ice from the solar panels in the morning – while the canal … More