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Tag: 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 … More

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

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

boat, boating, boatsthattweet, C&RT, canal, england, hire, hireboat, narrowboat, river, trust, venetian

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

boat, bramble, broken, club, cross, cuttings

Squirrel attack

Mad squirrels and Englishmen go boating in the noon-day sun. Was sat sitting peacefully, thinking about sitting some more, when … More

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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

boat, C&RT, canal, canals, england, free, gas, gasfree, narrowboat, Remoska

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

boat, canal, CaRT, england, narrowboat, river, trust

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

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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

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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

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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

boat, boating, canal, CaRT, england, middlewich, narrowboat, river, trust

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

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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

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