This gives some idea how noisy it is when you use a narrowboat to break ice.

It was another cold night, and we knew there was ice on the water as soon as we started moving about the boat, because we could hear it crun...

Never let it be said that we don't make enough use of Briar Rose.  The forecast for this weekend was good (cold but sunny), and Adrian...

A train went by at quarter past eleven last night, and another at 6.30 this morning.  If there were any in between, I didn't hear them. ...

I've got a boat test in the diary for tomorrow, so I came up to Briar Rose after work last night.  (Adrian had work to do today and was ...

The February edition of Canal Boat is out, and includes my boat test on the Fernwood-built Anaconda. There's also an article about...

Another bright and mild morning, and we had a cooked breakfast just to use up things from the fridge.  We set off at 9am, with the sun low b...