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Boating - at last - I think since we've owned narrowboats including share boats - checking back on my photos that was 17 years, we've never had such a long break away from ...1 day ago
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Map Updates – Issue 111 – April 2021 - I am pleased to say the monthly updates for my maps for April 2021 are now available. All these monthly updates mean you not only start with an up to date ...1 day ago
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Won't be here forever - A few final images from around Doncaster Street last weekend. The light was lovely. You might also have guessed by these recent rather longer and even ...2 days ago
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Yelvertoft and a night on board - I came up to Northants after work for a boat test as Yelvertoft— from where the short test cruise takes in the familiar landmark of Cracks Hill. Then it...2 days ago
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Duckett's discoveries - If you're quick and take a look at the bottom of today's BBC News site, there's an interesting set of photos of CRT volunteers clearing out the Hertford...1 week ago
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Doing the Evergreen Challenge - With the container ship "Ever Given" now re-floated and traffic on the Suez Canal on the move again my old boating chum Steve has issued me with what ...
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April 1st and new life starts. - Gosh, I was that surprised to see this brood opposite FS, didn't even know a duck had been in the area and what a time for the eggs to hatch now that the...1 week ago
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Life In Lock Down - Who would have ever thought we would have been subject to a pandemic lockdown! People have coped in different ways, but it has sadly been a struggle for mo...
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Back to our Lockdown Base - We were up early as we had been to bed early the night before and Del showered and went to pull the boat back onto the water point so we were full to th...3 weeks ago
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Cosgrove to Weedon - *Mon 8thMar* Cosgrove to Stoke Bruerne locks The plan today was to cruise to the top of Stoke Bruerne locks, and maybe a little further, then tomorro...4 weeks ago
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Recovered Timber for New Access Staging on our Garden - Today Jo and recovered the old timber that had been removed from the offside non-residential moorings opposite us which was replaced as the original was...1 month ago
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Maintenance visit - We actually managed a visit to Erin Mae this week. We'd been in Wales for a few, very enjoyable, days, sharing an AirBNB farmhouse with our London grandc...5 months ago
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Our Boating Companion Edward Winter 1950 - 2020 - *Edward Winter navigating a very reedy section of the Aylesbury Arm in 2009* Since buying our first narrowboat in the mid 1990s, almost every year we ...8 months ago
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Virtual BCN Challenge 2020: The Results! - Sunday May 10th 2020 Thanks to the wonder of spreadsheets and the hard work of the judges who read and scored 13 cruising logs every day, we had the overal...10 months ago
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The girls learn social distancing and the River is shut - Moored Bourne End, River Thames It’s been a while I know but we are both just fine here at Bourne End. Our days are full of little jobs, keeping the girls...11 months ago
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60% Completed - Here in the jones household we have been discussing the status of the security screen on the front door. It’s quite a strong metal screen with three poi...1 year ago
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Saou alley - Another France painting: this is in Saou. I crept out early to catch the sunlight streaming down an alley, then had the best almond croissant of the trip. ...1 year ago
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A new home at Braunston - A steady run to Braunston with a mooring close to the Boathouse. We had a couple of showers during the day which made a change from the bright sunshine. No...
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A’s First Voyage: Day 14 - Rickmansworth – Iver We shared the first few locks with Janet & Steve then said a fond farewell as they were only going to Denham. Then it was on through U...2 years ago
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My Blog Has Been Plagiarised - I have just found the total contents of my blog has been copied using everything on the site other than my bloglist. It has a different www. address and ...2 years ago
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A Wonderful Cruise to the Baltics! - We no longer seem to have time to blog these days, but our good friends Peter and Margaret did post this for us. https://www.nb-kelly-louise.com/2018/0...2 years ago
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OVERGROUND, UNDERGROUND WOMBERLING FREE - As mentioned in my previous blog about Dudley Tunnel, its very being was due mainly to the vast quantity of Limestone that Dudley, Wrens Nest and Mons hil...
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Climbing Heartbreak Hill - 200 years apart: M6 motorway and C19th canalway. I know which I preferThey call the long miles of locks that climb out of the Cheshire plains 'Heartbreak ...
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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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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...7 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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Bugsworth Basin 9041 [Flickr] - grannybuttons posted a photo: [image: Bugsworth Basin 9041]13 years ago
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2 comments:
It's a partially inserted bent nail, hammered as flat as it will go.
I think!
Through a "fishplate" ?
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