A quick trip up to Shardlow today for the second boat test in two days. The M1 was uncannily quiet, and we were uncharacteristically effici...

A long day today. I finished my night shifts this morning, and drove up the M40 for a rendezvous with Andy the photographer at the Bicester...

The December issue of Canal Boat is out and includes my boat test on the Finesse boat, Sonoma.

This morning I left in the dark, and it was dark again by the time I got back. In between was a drive up to Cheshire for a boat test. The ...

I mentioned during our September trip that I’d seen far more kingfishers than ever before — some days so many that I stopped counting them....

A first today — a bit of boating on the Lancaster Canal. Andy the photographer picked me up at Towcester at 7am and after a journey that w...

When we had a visit at Kingswood Junction from my father’s cousin, Horace, (which makes him my first cousin once removed), he brought us a ...