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Just another busy day - The 4x4 now has it’s heavy duty towbar fitted. I wrote to three companies asking for a quote and went with the cheapest. They seem to have done a good ...
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Long suited in long dogs - Ricky was a hit with everyone at Braunston of course, and started many conversations. A surprising number of these were with other people with long dogs va...
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Manchester Wednesday 28 June 2017 - Well last night it rained, this morning it rained, this afternoon it rained and its still raining now. We new we had a good day ahead of us so we set off...16 hours ago
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Generator Exhaust, Fuel Pump and Fuel Hoses - Some good progress today. The water lock (Silencer) is attached to a support plate and positioned on the baseplate in the boatman's cabin. [image: SAM_82...16 hours ago
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What with canoes and loose boats.... - So, okay, now what was I saying about an incident free day yesterday? Settling down to watch the Great British Menu and FS started rocking. Not violently, ...
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On The Shroppie - Ben the pup April 2007 Looking through all the old photos on my laptop I came across this one of Ben the dog as a new pup ten years ago. Where have all tho...
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Water level issues - As expected Al didn't sleep, until 4.00am when Tooty came running across the roof and down the cratch cover and in.. It was at this point we were found to ...
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Lee Navigation - *Lee Navigation* June 2017 We spent last night on the diminutive Hertford Union Canal, a one mile short cut which leads from the Regents Canal at Old Ford,...
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Foxhangers to Bath - *Thu 22nd Jun* Foxhangers to Trowbridge This morning was slightly cooler. Thank you, Lord. Leaving Foxhangers Sells Green Swing Bridge was chained up, ...
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Back To Chester and a meeting of good friends - We stayed four nights in all at Ellesmere Port museum and whilst there on the Saturday working historic boat Shad was giving demonstrations of locking up a...
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BCN Challenge 2017: The story of the jam.. - 18th June 2017 This time last year we were part of an epic convoy to the River Medway in Kent. Because we were moored in the garden of England and as one o...6 days ago
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A catch up and an operation - We knew Helen and Andy from Wand'ring Bark and the Jam Butty were down south, so had been trying to meet up with them. It didn't quite work at the weeken...
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A Couple of Days in the Lake District - Having finished all the decorating and settling in to our Manchester “pad” we took advantage of the kind invitation, by friends Pam and Geoff, for an ove...6 days ago
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Apparently….. - …..if you moor at Aristotle Lane on the South Oxford canal there are those, who live in brick, who think that boaters are the bottom of the pile. They t...1 week ago
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Clocking off ..... proper life decision - Not a small scale clocking off.... a real life event as I have resigned from my job of the last 29 years and 11 months and will be no longer a paying in ...
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And so, we continue back downstream to Bablock Hythe and beyond - Hart’s Weir Footbridge to Pinkhill Meadows, River Thames, 4½ miles 1 lock Time enough to start heading back from a very rural part of the Thames, the Hire ...1 week ago
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Back on Board - On a recent visit to London I invited myself for a visit to my old boat Starcross and to meet, for the first time, the lovely people that bought her and ha...
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Exceeding my authority – guilty! - In two hours at Denham deep lock yesterday afternoon three of us Towpath Rangers encountered approx 120 pedestrians and 55. cyclists many of them went a...1 week ago
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Stephen Hawking and the Crinan Canal - On our recent trip around the coast of Scotland we just had to pause at Crinan where that other Scottish Canal short cut reaches the open sea. Just nine mi...
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Heading home - Tug talking with Tebay at TixallWe are on familiar territory now, heading down the Trent & Mersey towards Fradley and then off to Streethay Wharf to say h...
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Birthday girl - My best beloved has finally joined me at the milestone we were celebrating this month with our European cruise – assiduously reported in this blog. So toda...
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Journey North: Cambridge – Bollington (via London and the BCN) - 553 miles, 449 locks After a wet morning boating through Macclesfield we finally made it home! Here’s Willow on our new mooring at Bollington Wharf. Plea...3 weeks ago
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Boat Village Life! - Well it's Saturday in the boat village, it's a gorgeous day even if the wind is a little cold. I have been out and had a nice walk, been to put my rubbish i...2 months ago
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Kennet & Avon V (Bedwyn to Teddington) - Putting posts together takes ages - I'd forgotten. I think Sarah on Chertsey has the right idea - the briefest of notes, daily, to be fleshed out later, Pe...
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Still on holiday. - I am sure you are all on the edge of your seats awaiting the update from the scintillating travels of the Great Holiday day whatever. Somerton Deep is as ...
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Moving on, at last. - So the dental work is all finished and I now have a smile like a filmstar: Richard Kiel. We set out from Wigram's last Thursday and it has been travel alter...
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Back in the Trent Valley - Not blogged for a couple of days so here is a catchup. From Coven Heath we pushed on down the Staffs and Worcester Canal stopping for the night at Baswick...
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Great Haywood Junction to Foxton Locks... the final chapter 21.10.14 - *Great Haywood junction to Foxton, Leicestershire* *Our final destination 21.10.14* *We continued the next couple of miles until we got to the junction a...
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The Tale of Tacet - [image: P1000304] Hi, nb Tacet here. I see this blog has had no postings for a while, it seems the Skipper and his First Mate have disappeared off, goo...
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It's Gone. - 7th November 2013 Poole, Dorset. On Tuesday we completed the sale of *No Direction *with the handover of the boat at Kings Bromley to the new owner Marcus...
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Archive Blog - This blog is the archive of our five years of adventures on narrowboat Lucky Duck from looking for a boat to buying, living on, cruising, doing up, and fin...3 years ago
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My fridge door - I appreciate the need to blame someone for the ills of our society during an economic downturn. History is littered with examples and it's a well documente...
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Waterlily is now with her new owners - It was a happy and sad day today as we completed the sale on Waterlily. We met her new owners at Great Haywood and completed the paperwork. So Waterlily is...
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IT'S A COLD WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD!. - Well what a day! As Dawn works on a Saturday, except when were off boating of cause, it is the only day I get to have a little lie in as I usually stay i...4 years ago
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Grandma Briefs blogs granny buttons - What is it about grandmothers and buttons? Grandma’s Briefs is a lovely blog from America, from a self-described “long-distance grandma navigating the wate...4 years ago
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It is at Batchworth junction. Lock 81 is behind the camera to the left and lock 81A to the right.
Don, you are wrong. It is not at Batchworth. Keep guessing!
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