Heavy rain overnight and more this morning, but it’s quite a bit warmer.  I think I’d rather have it cold and clear (except that we still ne...

As forecast, we had another cold night and it was very frosty this morning. But it was also sunny, and as I wanted to do some research for a...

We’re at the stage where we’re ready to pack — but don’t need to yet!  We haven’t got room for boxes of stuff, and if we can live normally r...

It was cold this morning, although the forecast sleet didn’t materialise.  We took a car-load of stuff to the recycling centre in Lichfield,...

We’ve started preparing for the move from this boat to the new one, and the first jobs included having a turn out of stuff we don’t need.  S...

We’re back on board after a week down south.  We left last Tuesday and headed for Kent; I caught a train to London to go to a leaving do, wh...

Lots more rain overnight but this morning was surprisingly sunny.  We thought we’d better make the most of it so walked down the canal to Wh...

The forecast said this morning would be better than this afternoon, so we headed off in the car to the National Trust property, Sudbury Hall...

Quite a nice sunny day this morning, and while Adrian had a call to do, I went to do my steps along the towpath.  He then joined me to do a ...

A few domestic tasks first thing, like filling the water tank, and then we got in the car and headed off to Barton Marina.  We’d booked with...

We drove up to Braidbar today for the last visit before we take possession on Kingley Vale later this month.  There’s a full update over on...

We drove the hour or so to Stoke this morning, stopping first at a fabric place to see what they had.  Not what we wanted, was the answer.  ...

A pretty dull and slightly rainy day.  This morning we drove into Lichfield to the big Tesco for a shop.  After lunch, Adrian went off for a...

Having checked out the route yesterday, this morning we walked to Lichfield Trent Valley station to get a train first to Crewe and then on t...

We’ll be here for a while now, but I still plan to blog each day — partly because this blog is a record of every night one or both of us has...

It’s always good to see the Tidys, and The Crown in Alrewas did us fine for food.  The place was rammed, and because it was Halloween, lots ...