The November issue of Canal Boat is in the shops, and includes my boat test of Elsie Alice , a 50ft cruiser stern with a very colourful in...

To Bristol today for a boat test. It was never as sunny as we'd hoped (or as sunny as the surrounding area, it seemed) -- but the harb...

There was very heavy rain early this morning, making a tremendous noise on the roof. But it had pretty much dried up by breakfast time. I...

Last night, when it was getting dark, two boats came up the top lock. One of them told us a top gate had come off at the next lock down; t...

It was very sunny this morning, and it was shining straight into my eyes when we set off at about 8am. It was a job to see where we were g...

It was raining when we woke up, and still damp and drizzly when we left at 8am. There wasn't much else moving -- in fact we were at Hi...

Today would have been mother's birthday, so I've been thinking about her quite a lot, and trying to remember all the places on prev...