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Rain - It’s the Cosgrove Canal Festival this weekend and we’ve never been, so Adrian went up to the boat yesterday evening. I’m working a set of night shifts. T...
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Hawkesbury to All Oaks - We didn't have a good night last night as we had over eaten at the Greyhound. So we made the most of it by getting up early and pushing Derwent6 over to to...
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Double delivery - Researching how to get a nice curve where the black paint below the gunwale interfaces with the green of Erin Mae's bows pointed me in the direction of ver...18 hours ago
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Only in Ireland!!! And an argument with a low branch. - Monday 16th July No rain fell during the night and not a sound heard from the cemetery. Fully expected to see the water over the grass as the tide was al...
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A Shameless Commercial - Did you see on the news this week that less people are buying ebooks and more people are buying paperbacks? Well it’s a good job my new book *A Good Hidi...19 hours ago
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Granby Swing Bridge - Granby swing bridge is at Riddlesden, near Keighley on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. I had previously passed through it almost exactly five years ago on wha...
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Onto the Llangollen but only just. - On Sunday Chris and I went to partake of my birthday present from her. Chris had bought me an hour on a flight simulator used by commercial pilots. I was...
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Oxford for a few days then on to Godstow - Sandford to Godstow, River Thames, 7 miles 4 locks Not all in one hit though. On Saturday morning we moved up from Sandford to Kennington close to the Isi...1 day ago
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A knock at the door - This morning we (almost) didn’t hear the knock at the door. It was a contractor from WesternPower, the government corporation responsible for electrical...3 days ago
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A weekend in Ellesmere - *Sat 14th Jul* Tetchill to Ellesmere via Frankton Our mooring at Tetchill Just as we were thinking of departing, a boat came in sight behind us and went...
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Archaeology of a road - This is what my road looked like a couple of months ago: This is what it looked like as they prepared it for resurfacing: This is what it looks like now:...
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A Trip To Barmouth - It's been cooler today so we've been to Barmouth where there was sunshine, lovely views of the hills and of course the sea. I had a paddle in the sea wh...
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Home moorings Wednesday 11 July 2018 - Last night we were very surprised with the amount of noise we could hear from the motorway, this morning when we woke all we could hear was the planes he...1 week ago
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Tom O' the Wood to Saltisford Arm - Another early start for our final day of travelling. It is always reassuring to see St. Mary's church in Warwick as we descend Hatton locks. We had compan...
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Lovely little boat for sale... - No surprise to one or two of you, but Tortoise is for sale; it's been twelve lovely years, but new adventures beckon, also involving woods & water, but a...
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The drive to reach Debdale - *Loughborough to Debdale* July 2018 I booked a rental van today and was asked my location. A simple question but one which is always a bit difficult to ans...
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Eight Legs, Two Tails and Lots Of Whisker's ! - After losing my beloved little Scotty dog a few years ago Tickety Boo has not felt the same without a pet on board. I toyed with the idea of another dog bu...
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Milton Keynes Sojourn - With the glorious weather, and a gap in our busy schedule as grandparents, we took a short trip through Milton Keynes over the weekend returning to Yardley...
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A bad bad boater - Not even sure I can count myself as a boater at the moment as I so rarely move Percy. Thursday saw a forked approach to getting back to the Midlands with m...
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BCN Marathon Challenge 2018 - Plenty of daylight left as we search for the elusive answer to the treasure hunt clue between Catshill and Longwood junctions 🙂1 month ago
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Dubai, Muscat, Petra, Herculaneum and Vesuvius - [image: P1000663] After flying out to Dubai we had four nights there before embarking on the P&O “Arcadia” for a cruise back to Southampton. Having been ...3 months 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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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...1 year ago
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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...
2 years ago -
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...5 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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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...5 years ago
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