It’s up early today and we have a recky around the boat and marvel at how fab it looks. It’s also one of those situations where you make one area look nice and so the rest looks terrible so we decide to tackle the painting of the stern. Vikky from the boatyard called them the… Continue reading Day 39 – Friday 25th August – Langley Mill Boatyard Dry Dock!
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
Cruising day today and it’s a glorious day for it. We do the usual routine of taking down the cratch covers, sorting out the bikes on the roof, making sure the anchor is ready, tiller on and all the other little faffy jobs done. ((This is going to be a long blog so if you… Continue reading Day Sixteen – Cruising Day! – Thursday 3rd 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
We are woken in the night by a banging on the side of the boat… had the pirate duck found us or was it the zombies trying to climb aboard? Or was someone trying to break in and steal my coffee? Turns out it was a buoy we had left dangling on the river side… Continue reading Day Eleven – Holme Lock – Saturday 29th July
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