We wake up to the promised rain pounding on the roof but there is something very relaxing about lounging about in bed with a coffee and looking out of the window onto the canal. This idyllic morning doesn’t last too long as we put off emptying the toilet yesterday ((You know when you finally make… Continue reading Day Eighteen – Trent Lock – Saturday 5th August
We are rudely awaken by the kids partying in the morning. I open the curtains to give the sheep a piece of my mind and tell them to keep the noise down whilst they are drinking from the canal! What a way to be woken up though. Other than the rumblings of a few trains… Continue reading Day seventeen – Trent Lock – Friday 4th August
We wake up to a bit of a drizzly day but the toilet cassette waits for no-one ((Oh, I’m out. Honestly just because literally everyone asks about the toilet within about 2 minutes of a conversation does not mean you have to talk about it in every other blog!)) Actually, Brackets this is for a… Continue reading Day Fifteen – Just a bit further down the canal – Wednesday 2nd August
It’s with regret we leave the mooring at Stoke. At the risk of being evicted we head off to hopefully secure a mooring at Holme Lock ((big spoiler here folks – they do!)) Hey Brackets, stop ruining my plan of building up the tension of the story, the… will they, won’t they make it alive?… Continue reading Day Ten – On the move – Friday 28th July
After chatting to the lockie it seems it is a little busy at the locks ahead and Nottingham due to the festival ((they later find out the festival isn’t until next weekend. Honestly canal and river trust should revoke their licence they have no clue what’s happening and you keep mentioning it. I think everyone… Continue reading Day Nine – Still here – Thursday 27th July
