A shortish walk away from the latest 'homestead' is Kings Dyke, pictured here. I escaped the dust and musty carpets of the bungalow we are refurbishing to walk the dogs and found this stretch of footpath/cycleway to explore.
Lesley and Joe. We are yet another pair of early retirees that are busy dodging our coffins. We have had built our very own narrowboat, Caxton, and are now starting out on our new life of exploring the ditches, dykes and rivers of this beautiful country along with shipmates, Fletcher and Floyd.
And So to Stourport
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Slowly to Stourport part VI
From Cookley it was only a short trip through Kidderminster to Stourport
which marked the southern extremity of our trip. After ...
Anodes in place
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Today being a nice sunny day Mel has managed to fix the anodes, I left him
playing with Sven der fender and tomorrow Sven should be properly in place.
I ha...
Will we find a mooring?
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*Moorings can be at a premium in Penkridge*
So we set off a little earlier in glorious sunshine towards our next lock.
Looking back at our mooring[image:...
BW's new 'Getting in Touch' leaflet
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I really like the new 'Getting In Touch' leaflet from British Waterways.
It's a handy downloadable (4mb PDF) guide showing all publicly accessible BW
conta...
Mind the Paintwork.
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*2 Locks, 4.48 Miles. Now moored opposite Alvecote Marina.*
What a glorious day for a cruise. The plan for today was a short cruise to
the BW facilities...
Signwriting good and bad
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On our way to Hurleston Junction we cruised past Calveley. One boat moored
there was Water Baron which has an example of excellent signwriting. I don't
kn...
The Bratch
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The Bratch was the place I really wanted to have a look at on this trip.
Again, we'd come through ten years ago, but all I could remember was that
there wa...
A rare treat.
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The Worsley mooring was fine apart from the traffic noise. It’s a shame that
such a pretty village is marred by having a main road running through it and
t...
The White Lion - Disley
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Jill on her wanderings with the dogs has found what has to be the most dog
friendly pub in the country.
The White Lion at Disley on the Peak Forest Canal h...
Walking The Dog Around Llangollen
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Eric has gone to Newport to visit family and do the doctor and dentist
checkups leaving Ben and I on the boat. So we've had plenty of time to go
for some l...
An absolutely brilliant gadget - it works too!
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Last December I wrote about getting a Brush Mate, which is a simple plastic
box in which you hang paint brushes, and containing a chemical pad which
preven...
Wet! Not moving today then....
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The plan was to move today but we really do love it here and it was raining
again, so that made up our minds .... We just messed about today. Al was
doing ...
A very social Saturday at Fradley…..
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We moved from Rugeley to Handsacre on Thursday, and continued on to Fradley
Junction on Friday, arriving just in time for a cheeky cider in The Swan at
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Back again.
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Well here I am again back onboard after a lovely weekend with the family.
Thursday evening we all went to a very nice Indian restaurant in Rochester
to cel...
Narrowboat Balmaha – Raynsway to Wistow
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*Tuesday 27th October to Sunday 1st November 2009 *
Last week we called in at Raynsway Marina and left our floating home in safe
hands while we motored d...
Railway videos
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More for my own interest I have uploaded a few videos of Little Foxwood with
three trains running. I spent much of the day in the village today as the
wi...
THOUGHTS of FREEDOM
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Been moored here at Marsworth for 25 days and as my back is much much better
the urge to once again be free to cruise is getting stronger. Although the
moo...
Blogged down
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Hello again, this is the first post for a couple of months but everything is
going well aboard Kestrel. Keeping a blog going obviously requires posting
reg...
Marina's
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I thought it might be a nice option to look at the various layouts of
marina's on the system.
As my boat is moored on the Trent & Mersey I started there. H...
Alive & Kicking!
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Wednesday 28th October
This is a short post with no photos,but just to let you all know we are
still alive!! We came to the marina on Sunday 25th as Kev ...
Boat Blog: Charity Cruise 2
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Saturday 24th October We got back to the boat on Saturday evening though we
felt as if we’d hardly left – Richard and I took a gang from his office down
to...
End of the season for us
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*Tuesday 13th October*
So endeth another season on Petroc. We are both agreed that we have had a
good time this year, despite the weather earlier on.
Petr...
A new venture
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As I have a new dog – Charlie, who keeps me out of doors most of the time, I
thought I had better look at how I can earn some money. Gem suggested I look
a...
Smothered in fish sauce
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I haven’t died…but I have been suffering from Nam Pla asphyxia, which has
curbed my enthusiasm for blogging. Yes, I know, how can you be suffocated by
a co...
2 comments:
Indeed it is! Lovely clouds.
Halfie you are right, the sky definitely has my vote.
Lesley
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