Narrowboat

My video diaries are done using a Ricoh Caplio R6 on a suction tripod mount set to take photos at 5 second intervals. As you can appreciate that could mean a lot of photos. So how many? Well having now got all the photos from my trip down the GUC earlier this month onto my [...]

I read somewhere a list of “little known facts” that included a duck’s quack has no echo, and no one knows why.
Surely that can’t be true? Well I took five minutes out to have a search and found an article by the University of Salford Acoustics Dept .

“A duck’s quack doesn’t echo” is a much [...]

Sunday 9th September 2007: Having just come through the tunnel, it was almost 2pm we decided it was a good spot to stop for lunch. Most evenings we go out to a pub for a meal & drink, but Sunday’s are notoriously difficult for this - many pubs don’t serve meals on Sunday evenings or [...]

It was quite a blistery Sunday morning and we soon reached Gayton Junction and carried straight on towards Blisworth and its tunnel. Since we had been passing oncoming boats several times already, its not surprising we did the same inside the tunnel. This was the first time through Blisworth tunnel for me, but not the [...]

Sunday 9th September 2007: A bright and sunny morning so nice for plodding along on a narrowboat. Soon after starting off we met an oncoming boat at a bridge hole, something that many skippers seem to dread. I had slowed down using blasts of reverse expecting the boat to continue through, but instead he rather [...]