We were awake fairly early, because it was a big day.  Firstly, it was my 55th birthday so there were cards and presents over breakfast (inc...

Adrian came up to the marina from home this afternoon, and I came up from London after an early shift.  We arrived within a few minutes of e...

I decided I would stay up here until I go to work on Friday — which meant I needed to do some washing as I was running out of clean clothes....

Amazingly, this is the first visit to the boat since early October, when we finished our autumn cruise.  It must be one of the longest times...

A beautiful sunny morning to start, and after breakfast I washed the towpath side of the boat, as there’s clearly been some very dusty rain ...

It was a beautiful sunny morning today.  I walked up the towpath, which while still quite muddy wasn’t as bad as I’d feared it would be, to ...

We left the boat at 8am and walked the mile back to the marina and the car — then drove up to Mercia Marina where I was doing a boat test.  ...

We had a lovely evening last night, sitting out on the towpath with Catherine, Nigel, Grace, and Matthew — with the barbecue going and the w...

I drove up to Staffordshire this morning for a boat test.  The promised sunny intervals eventually materialised, and we had some decent blue...

This morning was much more mild and the ice had melted, so we decided we'd head out of the marina. Before we set off, we put some wate...

We slept well but were still awake quite early.  After breakfast, Adrian did some work and I continued writing up yesterday's boat test....

After much too long, we're finally back on board.  The last time we were here was December 29 - I think it's the longest time we...

We're spending the weekend on Briar Rose with our friends Brian and Mike.  I picked up Adrian from work, and we arrived at the marina at...