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Pleasant enough, but wearily anodyne. The world at large, that is. There have been highlights, of course, and low-lights, but … More

Moorhen Sex is Staggeringly Disappointing

In their daily lives moorhens make a sound like a doggy chew-toy squeaking, sort of high-pitched hiccups. Spring having sprung, … More

A Whole Bottle of Washing-Up Liquid and a Lot of Elbow-Grease

That’s what it took to extricate this highly embarrassed “historical” wooden boat from Cholmondeston Lock. With age a certain spread … More

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 … More

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. … More

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, … More

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; … More

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 … More

Interesting Times

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

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 … More

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 … More

Bugger Bognor!

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