I came up to the boat after a night shift.  I dozed off on the train, so the journey seemed quick, and I got to Wolverton at 8.12.  I set of...

We left home at 7am, and drove up to Brinklow Marina, to attend the Electrika electric boat show.  We listened to some of the talks and spok...

Christmas Day, and the wind had finally dropped.  We treated ourselves to a cooked breakfast, then as it wasn’t raining, set off.  We were v...

The forecast for today was for 40mph winds, so we were always unlikely to be going anywhere.  We also had a visit planned, from my second co...

Adrian wasn’t working yesterday, so came up to the marina first thing.  He did a stock take and then went shopping at a packed Tesco in Wolv...

We are able to set off for Crick a bit earlier this year (or kind of set off, anyway).  I came up to the boat after a Breakfast shift, and A...

As I looked out of the side hatch yesterday evening at about 7.30, I saw a barn owl flying along the opposite bank of the canal — quite rema...

Adrian was coming up today, but the length of the drive meant he wouldn’t arrive until lunchtime.  I walked up to the tunnel and back to get...

Finally, later than usual, our autumn cruise is under way.  Except that it isn’t really because Adrian doesn’t finish work for another few d...

We left home at lunchtime once I was back from work, and got to the marina at around 3.30.  We unloaded the car, topped up the boat’s water ...

This was another day when we expected to get very wet, because the forecast was was rain pretty much all day.  And there was rain last night...