The leeches tell us that the Canal Company Trust Ltd is too skint to deal with the reeds. The overgrowth … More
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Wild Cruises & Dismal Weather
The lead phomatograph is the view down from the top of the forty locks of ancient Hurleston; my gratibodes to … More
An Overnight Crash of Erg-Onomics & The New Pensions Double-Lock
The [Greek and Roman] gods alone know what this is in the hedgerow opposite the marina. A doll’s head on … More
Surprise Is On Our Side
Still wet and wild at the moment, and the weather’s no better than it ought to be, too. Mr Stove … More
A Spot of Sport – Spotting the Spotters Spotting
iPiddle-Pad in hand. TBF GF, it took ’em two days to find me this time. Compare this with one of … More
Sticking Plaster Nation
There’s a game we play on England’s canal system, and it involves cruising everything that you own under bridge after … More
Morning Hasn’t Broken
Although Bridge 2 on the Middlewich has. I am sure certain that either end of a brick-built bridge isn’t really … More
An Unexploded Rat
Yonder peaceful, quiet, “full of wellness”, “life’s better by water” canals hereabouts are still ridiculously busy with manifold unaccustomed …persons… … More
Knutsen Bolts and… Stuff
Well that was a lovely forty minutes, spent cleaning out the shower sump-pump. To take a shower aboard a boat … More
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
Crowds and Clouds
Canal boats run like buses. This is nothing to worry about; I run like an arthritic orangutan that’s spotted a … More
Yanking My Chain
It’s not just the new Terror Weather that’s yanking my chain (kill the children and the livestock, grab the family … More
The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company. 