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Park home and Leisure Show - Near the Stoneleigh show ground was a CC site. It happened to be at the Rugby Club, and electric hook-up, as well as drinking water, grey water disposal...
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Did someone say slow timing it back to Shebdon - ... What do they know. Sadly Rachels trapped nerve if that is what it is got worse overnight and was up 4am is trying to get comfortable and some relie...
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Home - Just to put you all in the picture, this morning we left Harnser at Northwich Drydock and took an Uber, first for us, back to Barby, picked up our car an...1 week ago
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Return Home - As we are now that bit further away, we planned to take a break and charge the car at the mid point of our journey. A little to our surprise we found that ...2 weeks ago
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Loving Life. - I have been living back onboard for a year now! I can't believe how fast that has flown by. Lots of changes but good ones. First big change was finall...1 month ago
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End of an era - If anyone had looked at this moribund blog in the past couple of weeks, they would have seen that my ‘Count Up’ ticker of how long I have owned Chertsey...2 months ago
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Banbury cut in half - plus Herbie sea trails - Banbury cut in half? What's he on about? Is it just click bait? Well I'll explain that at the end. Meanwhile for the first time in many months Herbie h...
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The Last Post - On the morning of Valentine's Day I knelt by the side of my best beloved, held her hand, read a Psalm or two and prayed with her. And she slipped gently...2 months ago
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Map Updates – Spring 2026 - I am pleased to say the Spring 2026 updates for my maps are are now available. Quarterly map updates mean you not only start with an up to date map but ...3 months ago
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Some final stats - After a long cruise I normally do a post with some stats for the trip, so I thought it would be nice to do some stats for the whole of our ownership of B...6 months ago
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New Main Line, heading out of Birmingham - *New Main Line from Birmingham to Smethwick 1963* November 2025 Its a bit tricky to define the area heading out of Birmingham towards Smethwick and Tipt...6 months ago
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Our Last Journey on Hadar - Back in April 2025 Jo and I started to look at flats in the Warwick area with a view to moving back onto the land at some point in time as we didn't wan...
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Climate change, climate bullshit - Open sidebar [image: The Epoch Times] Open si Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say 7875 1403 [image:...2 years ago
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Postscript - We arrived back in time for some August events: Sandra Kibble’s funeral on 4 th August, Joyce’s 90th birthday on 12th August. She had asked us to sing, so...
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Milestones - I took advantage of the lack of traffic on the main road up the Lune Valley from Lancaster today for a cycle ride to Kirkby Lonsdale and to take some ph...
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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...
5 years ago -
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...6 years 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...6 years 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. ...6 years ago
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Batteries replaced and recycled - It's the time of the year when temperatures begin to drop and batteries struggle. As I reported on our recent Autumn Cruise, our stater battery failed as w...
6 years ago -
The Odyssey 2019: Day 10 – Part 3 - Sandbank by RAF No. 4 to the Nene I really enjoyed our time on the beach, but all too quickly the tide turned and we had to head back to sea. This proved t...6 years ago
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For the benefit of Mr Kite and Newbold on Avon - The towpath changed sides once we passed through the stop lock before we moored at Hawkbury, so I was able to clean the other side of Tilly May. Poor girl...
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A’s First Voyage Day 10 - Fenny Stratford – Horton After the glorious sunshine of the last few days it was a shock to have rain and hail today. BoatBaby and I spent most of the day ...7 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 ...7 years 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 ...8 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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Weaver of dreams - Autumn colours add to the natural beauty of the rural river I think the River Weaver is my favourite waterway. There is just one thing wrong with it: it...
8 years ago -
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...
9 years ago -
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Holidays Day 1..2... whatever - Time to dust the old blogger scape down and get blogging about my holidays. HOLIDAYS! A REAL HOLIDAY! I LOVE holidays and I am loving this holiday. Once I...10 years ago
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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...
12 years ago -
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...
12 years ago -
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...12 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...13 years ago
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Nice shots - it looks busy on the visitor moorings. Looking forward to reading more of your travels in 2021
Halfie send the snow our way. Another day of 40C here!
Yikes! Please don't send it here, though. It looks very pretty, but I'd rather not see the real thing. Lovely photos!
Nev, thanks. I'll try to up my posting rate!
Tom, I'd gladly swap some snow for some of your heat!
Vallypee, thank you.
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