Narrowboat

In May I posted a couple of videos comprising of my 10 hour cruise in a day from Cuckoo Wharf to the Engine Branch Canal going via Tame Valley, Walsall, Wednesbury Old, and Main Line canals. Whilst my old set up using a Ricoh R6 digital camera meant the videos translated as 1 hour cruise [...]

I meant to post this before, but been a but busy and it slipped my mind . The old Ownerships forum was seen as not-fit-for-purpose and in light of the company going under and the website being pulled, some owners decided to set up on another existing forum Boats and Canals as a sub forum [...]

Canalplan is quite a good website for planning your cruises, I’ve often used it to get an estimate of what distance needs doing, so I can judge whether I need to get up earlier the following day if I’m behind or want to get a bit further – conversely if I’m ahead and want to [...]

I applaud Google’s taking over of Youtube, which I suspect some oppose purely because of the Google global domination strategy much like some people oppose Microsoft because of their market share. It is not because I love Google, though as I am a Gmail and Chrome user you may disagree that I’m not an adopter [...]

I have a laptop with windows Vista on it, and have even bought Windows 7 (well this copy is either going on my laptop or if I decide to build myself a new desktop, then that), but I still have a desktop with windows XP on – wow it almost sounds as if it’s some [...]