Narrowboat

Yesterday we reached the Ponty on the Llangollen. The weather has been atrocious and on top of that the power adapter for my camera failed – they are not designed for 8 hour a day shoots for a week at a time So there will be no video of this cruise, still I’m sure I’ll [...]

Currently preparing to set off on our next boat trip. this time we are aiming to do the Llangollen canal and head down the Montgomery canal, before returning.

I am back from my week afloat and now have 10GB of photographs (as each is about 80-100KB, that’s quite a fair few), or there about, which considering I took three 4GB cards did at least mean I had worked it out right. I was using the Canon camera I had bought second hand and [...]

In past years I’ve ventured out on my boat over Christmas or New Year, but not being in education sector any more I don’t get the big slack periods to gallivant off. So I’m not afloat until March, unless I grab a free weekend. The boat is moving bases this year, we’ve managed to get [...]

In running this blog I was using WordPress and Gallery 2, the latter is quite an extensive system with lots of features I don’t use – it’s also a fair bit of my server space, so I decided to try a change. I’ve gone to Coppermine, which is a lot smaller and a great for [...]