This morning was a triumph of timing.  I was down to less than a scuttle of coal, so thought I'd boat along to Baxter's to buy some....

As if it wasn't noisy enough yesterday evening with the wind howling round the boat, once the rain started drumming on the roof if was d...

I came up to Briar Rose this afternoon, as I have a boat test to do tomorrow, further north.  It was beautifully sunny at home, but was very...

The December issue of Canal Boat is out, and includes my boat test of the Carefree Cruising boat, Kallista.

This morning was wet.  We set off at 8.45 in the rain -- but at least it was coming down vertically rather than horizontally, and there was ...

Another day when it looked promising first thing, then came on the rain.  We left our overnight mooring just before 9, carried straight on a...

We woke to a beautiful sunny morning, and set off at just after 8.30.  I walked the first part of our journey, to get some photos of Briar R...