The Cardinal and I moved again yesterday evening. A hundred yards, on the ropes. There’s a new dog at one … More
Tag: boating
What to do with boaters who moor overnight on water points?
My object all sublime is to let the punishment fit the crime, the punishment fit the crime. Luckily this morning … More
You Might Have Heard a PIN drop – had it not been for the Cacophony from the “One-Time” PASSCODES and CVV Numbers…
…and the angry buzzing of Dr Livingstone. Five-sixths of the old Works Pension (laughably) went into the bankeroo yesterday, bringing … More
Getting The Best Of The Day
Mr God also get his electricity from the sky, but he doesn’t bother with solar panels. I can’t remember exactly … More
Where am we?
Company comes and goes on these moorings. I feel as Jim Rockford must have felt in the opening scenes of … More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
