Narrowboat

We have a pair of two-way radio’s to use at locks, etc., but stopped using them a year or so ago because the batteries failed (rechargeable ones that had given up the ghost), which could in part be due to using them in damp conditions. Recently Adam on nb Debdale mentioned he’d bought some from [...]

I already have a GPS unit, but if I was in the market for another, I’d be soooo tempted by this one.
It’s the first time since the TV Movie Knight Rider 2000 - has William Daniels been involved in anything officially Knight Rider. In fact it had been rumored for quite some time that Daniels [...]

When I moved this blog to Wordpress I looked round for free templates and decided on the Green-Blue one that’s used up until now. I tweaked this to personalise it, and have been fairly happy with it. However the layout is fairly rigid, so if I add a plug-in it may require another tweak. Not [...]

This site didn’t have a favicon - I’d adapted a theme when I originally set the site up but never thought to add one. When reading a few other people’s boating blogs, many have a side bar with links to other boating blogs, as I do too, though I noticed some blogging software includes favicons [...]

It seems Andrew Denny and myself have been following each other’s posts over domain names. Now I suppose http://nboat.tk isn’t too memorable and if someone’s trying to remember it after being told in a pub/lock/etc may just remember it as nboat-dot-something-or-other. However it is probably better than some random short URL redirection service (they are [...]