Real boats at Gunwharf Quay in Portsmouth.
Rescued and revived, these World War 2 craft still look fast and mean on the waterfront in Pompey.
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I take a tumble and the camera comes of worse. - And it was going to be such a good day! Started well enough, although I should have known things were about to go down hill when we couldn't get into th...
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Cowley Lock to Kensal Green via Little Venice. Grand Union Canal and Paddington Arm. - On our way back to the boat from Anne & Andy’s we popped in for lunch with Mum and Dad, then swung by to pick up our post from Karen’s. Back at Cowley al...
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Colombia y un inminente riesgo a quedarse a oscuras por falta de energía 😮 - *Para darse de baja click aquí* *Hola blogger.com, * * Soy Emma Martin, redactora de Papernest, y editora de la sección del blog que se ocupa ...2 days ago
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Open Live Writer Solved! - With Google blocking Open Live Writer to Blogger I was seriously contemplation giving up blogging. (who reads this rubbish anyway). However I persisted...2 days ago
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Annual Report - Twelve years of Briar Rose ownership completed. This year's usage went back up again as we had a long autumn cruise, and our Crick trip had a few extra...
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Work and play at Cropredy - I'm glad to report that Herbie is still afloat - well you never know these days with all the weather we're having; there's a 40-odd mph wind outside as ...
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Climate change, climate bullshit - Open sidebar [image: The Epoch Times] Open si Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say 7875 1403 [image:...2 months ago
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The Robber Button & us. - So at the beginning of Covid we sold our home, The Robber Button and bout a small apartment in our home town. It was a wrench, we would miss the wildli...3 months ago
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At last–Powys is sold - On Saturday 28th October, Powys was purchased by a couple who already live on a smaller boat on a London mooring. The sale has been a long protracted af...
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Parker Branch Canal - *Parker Branch Canal* October 2023 The Parker Branch is little more than a long basin which left the Mainline to the west at Bromford Junction serving ...6 months ago
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Off to the "National" - The Inland Waterways Association National Rally, aka the Festival of Water, was at Pelsall Junction this year. Although we decided late to book in we wer...
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De-Bugged? – We Hope So ! - It has been a long time since we posted anything on this blog, so you may have thought that we have disappeared! Well, we are not living on board any more...
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Phases - In the end, selling Erin Mae is about phases of life. And we have no reason to complain. In April my best beloved and I celebrated 50 years of marriage....9 months ago
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Happiness Tinged With Sadness.. - In my last post, I told you all about the new phase in our lives. Al and I are settling in nicely on Tickety Boo and the marina where she is moored is l...
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Back on the rails - I've just spent a most enjoyable long weekend down in Newhaven, and I'm very pleased to say that the train journey, both ways, went without a hitch (and...
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The Essence of Boating ? - Maggie and I attended a funeral service today for our friend Chris Allin who, apart from being a gifted musician, also lived for many years with his part...1 year ago
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Milestones - I took advantage of the lack of traffic on the main road up the Lune Valley from Lancaster today for a cycle ride to Kirkby Lonsdale and to take some ph...
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Summer trip to Llangollen - Our FB page is updated with this summers trip to Llangollen with lots more photos Link to Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Blogger/...
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Time to move on. - Hi Everyone. Yes it is time to move on. I have been blogging one way or another since coming onto the water in 2005. This blog began in 2010 after my o...
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Meeting friends on the cut; nearly losing an Elsan cassette - Oh dear - no blogging for three days. Various reasons, mostly that it got too late in the evening and I was too tired. Now we are on a lock-free stretch an...
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Really the end. - So I had one last trip on the faithful Petroc. Giles joined me to take the new owners Ralph and Michelle, on a familiarisation trip from Cropredy to ...
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London 2014: All Hallows by the Tower; The Oldest Church in Londan has Links to America! - *WARNING: HISTORY AHEAD!! A LONG NARROW DIP INTO 19 CENTURIES OF A TINY SQUARE BIT OF LAND NEAR THE THAMES. MAKE YOUR TEA, GRAB A BISCUIT, AND SETTLE IN OR...
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2021 - This blog has not been updated in a long time. I have still been boating, just not really blogging about it. Silhouette is 25 years old and as a group of o...2 years ago
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Bella holds a new family - We write from a house. Yesterday we visited Bella's new gorgeous family to help them understand her quirks and happiness. Yes, we've sold her and moved off...
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The Last Post - Hi Folks. Just dropped in to say that "Dogma" has been sold, and our aquatic adventures, have finally drawn to a conclusion. I still absolutely love boa...
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A Guide To political and Social Media Terms: - A Guide To Political and Social Media Terms: If you are not politically savvy, when reading postings, some words or terms used, can be quite odd and ap...3 years ago
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And the Clan piper plays his pibroch - My uncle David Coles died this morning. He was in his late eighties. He had been terribly ill for a long time: An aortic aneurism was threatening to pop, ...3 years ago
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Virtual BCN Challenge 2020: The Results! - Sunday May 10th 2020 Thanks to the wonder of spreadsheets and the hard work of the judges who read and scored 13 cruising logs every day, we had the overal...3 years ago
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The girls learn social distancing and the River is shut - Moored Bourne End, River Thames It’s been a while I know but we are both just fine here at Bourne End. Our days are full of little jobs, keeping the girls...4 years ago
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Putting Covid-19 into perspective - The Office of National Statistics has just published their analysis of Covid-19 during March I am not going to reproduce all their findings buthere are a fe...4 years ago
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Bruce’s funeral - I would like to thank all the followers who have posted kind comments to the last post. I have been overwhelmed but heartened by your sympathy. The link be...4 years ago
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Farewell to Patience - And so, farewell then, dear Patience. After ten years of interest, challenge, friendship, peaceful retreat, security and adventure, Patience today changed ...
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A Busy Year Of Travel. - My last post - on the 27th August 2018, related to our fabulous P&O Cruises visit to the Scandinavian Capitals of the Baltic including St. Petersburg for a...
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Boo! - A quick PSA... I'm guessing anyone reading this will also know Richard & Sue on Indigo Dream. I note they haven't blogged in a bit, but just wanted to flag...5 years ago
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Reunited - It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we must announce that Paul passed away on Sunday 24th February. We are all going to miss Paul so much, he...
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My Blog Has Been Plagiarised - I have just found the total contents of my blog has been copied using everything on the site other than my bloglist. It has a different www. address and ...5 years ago
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SELBY REVISITED - It has been six years since we had our last voyage on SKYY and just about in the middle of our five year cruise of Britain's inland waterways, our adventur...
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A Wonderful Cruise to the Baltics! - We no longer seem to have time to blog these days, but our good friends Peter and Margaret did post this for us. https://www.nb-kelly-louise.com/2018/0...5 years ago
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To be continued in Volume II - If you come here often, I have started Volume II of our blog at narrowboatwrensnest.wordpress.com5 years ago
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Blackbird is for sale! - So, after 11 years, I'm now selling my dear boat, Blackbird. Here are the boat details which I'm selling through VC Marine, if you're interested: http://vc...6 years ago
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All aboard - At last a window of opportunity to get on board Moore 2 Life just for the day. Chris took the day off and was happy to take us all to Cropredy and back. ...
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Gloucester Sharpness Canal &the Tall Ships - *Captains Log* Canal Date 27th May 2017. *Cruising along the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal.* We have stayed on this canal for a few weeks now and we...
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Carpet Cleaning: twelve Things To grasp - Carpets, there in all of our properties. Not surprisingly it’s a on condition that in some unspecified time in the future you will end up executing some ...6 years ago
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Bosworth Marina Winter 2016/17 # 10 - Saturday 24th December to Saturday 31st December Sunday 25th December (Christmas Day) Yesterday; and just for a change for a Saturday; we walked up to the...7 years ago
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My Lorry - As well as owning Badger, I also have an old Bedford lorry, which I bought after selling Alton. My intention was to leave the canals and retire gracefully...
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Download Now You See Me 2 (2016) Full Movie - *Download Now You See Me 2 (2016) Full Movie* | One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spec...
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Still on holiday. - I am sure you are all on the edge of your seats awaiting the update from the scintillating travels of the Great Holiday day whatever. Somerton Deep is as ...
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Atalanta Sold - Atalanta is now sold and we are without boats again. Been an interesting journey over the past few years but we have stopped boating for now. Hopefully we...8 years ago
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Farewell - *It is a fact of life that we cannot predict the future, even the near future. The things we take for granted today could all be different tomorrow. It’s...8 years ago
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Windsong is sold! - The end of a era - a sad day for us, as Windsong has today become the property of a new owner. We enjoyed every second of designing her, watching the b...8 years ago
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Moving on, at last. - So the dental work is all finished and I now have a smile like a filmstar: Richard Kiel. We set out from Wigram's last Thursday and it has been travel alter...
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After 2 months silence!! - Well, it is actually two months and one week but who is counting? We have been fairly busy, had a few emergencies, met up with some good friends and genera...8 years ago
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on the Kennet and Avon canal - Yes at last we are out and about it is good to be out on the cut again and we really enjoying the K&A we have seen some old friends and met new ones , a...
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Goodbye. - Ok, so after over five years of living aboard, taking photos and writing about our adventures en-route we are now discontinuing to blog. I have very much en...8 years ago
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Virtual Science Fairs - Plato's Academy had been closed for being a pagan institution in 529 by the virtual science fairs of the virtual science fairs but with numerous inaccura...9 years ago
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A Short Catch Up - Only a couple of quick visits to Trudy-Ann over the last few weeks, mainly to check that there was no damage after the high winds. Replaced the stern line a...9 years ago
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Instamarch. - Photos by me.Two sides of March in the form of Instagram squares. And as we are approaching the prettiest season of the year,I say - spring it on! My Inst...
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Wootton Rivers to All Cannings - After Wootton Rivers our next stop was Pewsey Wharf. The mooring there is poor but at least we were able to walk into Pewsey to stock up with provisions...
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Our last trip in Doublefracture. - Thursday the 21st-August we move through Alrewas,After the quite time at Fradley we found our selves fourth in a Que for the lock on to the river section. ...9 years ago
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Mouzay - We loved it outside the sleepy village of Mouzay and ended up staying for a week. Unfortunately, we haven’t had an internet signal since we left there so I...
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Leaving Liverpool going south - *Thursday 3rd July* We had filled the tank from the fuel barge on Wednesday and topped up our water tank and ensured the flowers were watered too. We cast ...
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Come and visit us on Wordpress - our new blog! - We had an email recently from a blog follower saying he hadn't realised we'd moved our blog somewhere else - he'd been wondering why we hadn't posted on th...
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Bon Voyage Rock 'n' Roll - Well, today's the day! This is the last sighting for me as I take Molly home as she's not well (more later). George follows them out of the ma...
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It's Gone. - 7th November 2013 Poole, Dorset. On Tuesday we completed the sale of *No Direction *with the handover of the boat at Kings Bromley to the new owner Marcus...
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Jandai is Sold - hello Thought I would just let you all know that Jandai is sold. I cannot describe how I feel about it, so I'm not going to try. I am now truly land-base...10 years ago
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Not much Boating - We have been suffering health problems this year. This has meant several visits to hospitals, nurses, doctors for both of us. This meant very little time a...
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Archive Blog - This blog is the archive of our five years of adventures on narrowboat Lucky Duck from looking for a boat to buying, living on, cruising, doing up, and fin...10 years ago
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Five years on - Several new jobs, and a move overseas, have all played havoc with our time spent on board North Star. Five years after buying North Star, we are nearly comp...10 years ago
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That's all folks!!!!!!!!! - Some of you may have heard that Piston Broke has been sold and tomorrow (Wednesday) is moving day. We have been busy packing and now the boat has a bit o...10 years ago
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Marsworth to Brentford - After a wet free Tuesday at Marsworth, on Wednesday 29 May Ebony woke me early, as usual, at 6am. The sky was fairly good and the forecast was for rain at...10 years ago
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In to Liverpool - The trip down to Liverpool is bit of a disappointment. As soon as you reach Bridge 9 things change. On one side its all countryside and the the canal is...
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Goodbye to Star - Sadly after five years of glorious cruising to almost every point in the canal network Star has been sold and we have moved onto Narrowboat Harry – a sort ...10 years ago
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My fridge door - I appreciate the need to blame someone for the ills of our society during an economic downturn. History is littered with examples and it's a well documente...
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And so the reminiscing begins... - I threatened in my last post that I'd start reviewing our life aboard this boat and thought I better honour that promise. This post comes from a blog I wr...10 years ago
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Waterlily is now with her new owners - It was a happy and sad day today as we completed the sale on Waterlily. We met her new owners at Great Haywood and completed the paperwork. So Waterlily is...
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Monday 17 September 2012 - Braunston - Napton - Braunston - Home Yes, we have returned home for a few days, but not before spending several days in Braunston supporting the local eco...
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Grandma Briefs blogs granny buttons - What is it about grandmothers and buttons? Grandma’s Briefs is a lovely blog from America, from a self-described “long-distance grandma navigating the wate...11 years ago
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Back on the Leeds Liverpool - As expected, we didn't do the Ribble Link on Saturday & we were told it would probably be Monday or Tuesday but there was an 20% chance that it could be Su...
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Painting of the interior hull structure - After stripping out and removing all the interior including wall partitions, side panels and ceiling panels sometime ago, the L shaped structure of the hul...11 years ago
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Back on board... - It's been a good a while since I've blogged about the boat, however now is a good time. 'Thursdays Child' was sold about a year ago to a lov...
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Paint, paint and more paint... - Yup, there's been a couple of days of endless painting - on the inside... [image: :-)] After Friday's good weather, allowing for the outside painting and ...12 years ago
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Barge Roof is ON! - Well after a winter of discontent due to high winds, rain, and a bit of snow, Hopper 11 now has a shiny new roof to protect him from the elements! From f...
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Maybe again - I am thinking I really should start blogging again as I suddenly feel i have something to say... Its been the first winter on Baldock and things have gone ...12 years ago
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Job Done!!! - "Who is this motley crew waving paint brushes?" you enquire. "Is that the Old Boater in the middle?" You are not wrong. There he is with Herself (on the l...12 years ago
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The adventure ends - One adventure ends, another begins. On 15 December we delivered NB Lazy Days to Hilperton where she is up for sale. On 17 December we moved into our new ho...12 years ago
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Nicholsons Updates Disbanded - We have decided to close down the Nicholsons Updates site. Some time ago, we reported that we weren't getting the feedback from canal users and it was de...12 years ago
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September Adventures - After gearing ourselves up to tackle the Leeds Liverpool canal, we discovered BW were doing maintenance on one of the locks, and had no official completion...12 years ago
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Storm in a teacup on the Heath - My sister Vanessa, aka London Dreamtime, ran a women-only true stories evening on the Heath on Saturday in conjunction with Storm in a Teacup. Eight women ...
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Finishing off bits - The little bits that make a boat looked lived in always seem to take ages to make, like the rail to hang the oil bottles on. Forgeing the ends flat and ben...
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Boat for Rent? - You will see that I haven't blogged on K2 for a year... I have been on her about 6 times in the year, all for a days cruise that generally went to Hillmort...
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June 3rd - Many apologies for such a delay since I last wrote. School and its busyness has kept me quiet. So too has the wish to keep calm and patient. What has happ...12 years ago
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Blog moved - Because of the problems with using this Google provided service I have moved the blog to www.nbdensie.blog.com. See you there!!12 years ago
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A New Chapter Begins! - Well, we have just become a two boat family, having just bought the former Working Boat, then Ice-Breaker, then Tug, named SICKLE. Current plans are to kee...12 years ago
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The end of a chapter.. - I first have to apologise to everyone who reads my blog that I have not written for a very long while. When I last wrote, we were at Whixall Marina heading...12 years ago
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The Last Post - And as the Sun sets slowly in the West, in the distance the rhythmic beat of the Bolinder faded into the evening sky until it could be heard no more only t...13 years ago
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Goodbye! - Sunday 10 April 2011 A monumental decision has been reached. We are going to sell Martlet; we had intended so to do at the end of the summer. We will be buy...13 years ago
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Chi-Cheemaun sold - Hi fellow boaters we have now sold our boat and moved on to land and now getting used to the room not rocking and I don't have to empty the loo and get i...
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It's a hard life,but lovin' it. - Well I know it's been a while,but it's not everyday I can get a strong enough signal to get online. I'm still on board Caberfeidh and loving every minute o...13 years ago
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An update on t'engine - No sooner had I created the last post did an email arrive about Lola. She is still stuck in the dock, so thats not too bad given the weather. The engine ...13 years ago
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Drydock Prep - I thought I would put up a quick post as its been awhile. Emilyanne is due to go into drydock on sunday (14th) and his to have her engine and boiler remove...13 years ago
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The fitout begins, lots of pics of an empty boat, - Once in the water Laney spend no time at all setting about making start to look like a proper boat. and sharon stood in the kitchen to be. After onl...
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Holding The Baby - We were recently charged with the responsibility of taking care of our baby grandson Callum, for a few days while his mum took a break. Although we embarke...
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Moving on from Weedon, tackling tunnels with a 60 watt bulb & apologies to the Jaguar owner... - The trees are changing colour and it has been noticably colder when we've been cruising lately, autumn must be here. Let's hope it doesn't bring the dreade...
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More Ramblings - Since the last witterings, we moved on up the Staffs & Worcester canal to Great Heywood for a few days, whilst there we met up with Eric and Elsie on Bendi...13 years ago
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1 Year Old - 8th July was Lilians 1st birthday. We had a bit of a barbeque on the saturday afternoon to celebrate with family and friends. Our special thanks to Glyn, ...
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Tales from above a Norfolk Village - Well I had had no work for ages. I was just beginning to think I had better make friends with those bin men again, as they may be able to find some scraps...
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Walsall Canal, A CanalScape-BCN inspection cruise with Dean Davies from BW aboard. - Boat drafted to pull 3ft 3” underway. The 21st of May saw 109 leave Walsall town wharf at 11.45AM, our destination was Birmingham. Immediately entering th...13 years ago
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The Big Freeze 2010 - Thought I'd post a few pics on here of the snow around my parts just for future posterity and interest!
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I've moved - Hello and welcome to the archived nbWarrior blog. To read about my recent doings, please look at my new blog: www.chertsey130.blogspot.com Here on nbWarr...14 years ago
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.....the End - We made it. After 3 months, 270 hours of chugging and 300 + locks ( can't be bothered to count), Moondaisy is at her new home . Bill Fen Marina has b...
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New Waters - A view of Burnley from the 'mile long' (well nearly a mile long) embankement that goes through the town centre Tuesday was really sunny so Jon was inspired...
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Tuesday 30th June 2009 - *Hertford Link (which avoids Limehouse Basin) Popular moorings for live-aboards.* We had an early start and left our mooring at 0715hrs to try to get a few...
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Hello and welcome - Hi , I am starting this blog to try and keep a record of sorts about the narrowboat we have just bought. Well our introduction to boating started last A...
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Wordsley Junction - The dongle has been letting us down the past few days with a very dodgy signal. We walked into Stourbridge, about 2 miles, to have an afternoon out. Our bi...14 years ago
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Stern Doors and plans - The stern doors have now been fitted and look very nice, in retaliation the side hatch has decided to leak with vengeance over the last week. Oh well, up w...15 years ago
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It ends - Kensal Green to Battlebridge Basin, 5 miles, 4 locks So is was it then. The day when surely I must finally get 'home'. The sky was grey, but in a good way ...15 years ago
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