NarrowBoat Bones

I have been hearing flitterings here and there about the boats mooring along the castle mill stream.  The Oxford Times wrote about it about...

I was busy trying to find a picture of my boat at Shepperton Weir for an article I am writing and have failed miserably. Instead I have foun...

Anyone who has been on my boat will know that getting into the cupboards and drawers requires some patience.  I don't see it myself - bu...

I have a nephew with Down's Syndrome. This piece of writing says it all.  Read it.   world-down-syndrome-da y

I have been pottering about in radio silence for over a month now.  I am rather enjoying my current mooring spot which has no internet and s...

I have a friend who is a whizz with a grinder so I popped over with my 'issues'.  The pulley was ground down with the grinder alon...

I took the water pump off and had a good look at it.   After a bit of a fiasco (access, nuts, metric and imperial issues between the pu...

The water pump is throwing stuff around the place again. I thought this one would last longer, but it must be about 6 years since I turned u...

I hope you are having the most splendiferously wonderfully fabulous birthday! XXXX

In a moment of inspiration we found ourselves in Cambridge and discovered a member of our party had never been. There is only one way to see...

CRT had a picture of the bicycles pulled out of the canal – I quite liked the look of some of them, but they weren’t for sale. One of th...

Photo by Jan Dytor.

Many a person has been buried, Many a hymn has been sung, Many a eulogy been delivered, and many a tear has risen from the heart, ...

Having learnt what to do, I set to to do.  Before… After…(logs not included)

Where does the time go?  I have been out and about and seem to have just missed, or just caught fellow bloggers in passing.  When I FINALLY ...

The morning walk took Boots and I past the lift bridge this morning. CRT were on site discussing what they would do to open navigation and...

Several of us have written about it, and many of us have noticed it.  Finally the bridge has collapsed closing navigation. Here is the stopp...

I snapped up the opportunity of a river trip on Monday. I dashed to the train station and in no time at all I was on the boat heading som...

I am all in favour of festivals but I was cursing them on Saturday.  And Sunday.  I can't make the Blisworth Canal festival on the 8th a...