Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Granny Buttons posted about the canal boat magazine game, and several bloggers have taken the challenge. So I thought I’d be like a sheep and join in:
What’s your favourite canal?
The one I’m on at the time. Each usually has something I like about, such as Northern Oxford looking at the shortening that occurred. Then again [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
You’re chugging along on your boat at 3mph when suddenly something gets caught on your propeller, maybe it just makes a brief noise, so you give a blast in reverse and it clears, or maybe it stops dead and so you engine stalls. Either way its usually just a minor inconvenience, it just slows you [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Hello from afloat. We started out on 2nd and headed up through Warwick, in the rain, down the Stratford and on to the Avon.
Luckily the rain stopped after a couple of days giving us 10 days of glorious sunshine. My camera has been taking pictures, but we’ve been delayed a couple of days with engine [...]
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