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Water Washing, and there's an Echo - So we have been static for two weeks and its time to move for water.. There was still slight patches of ice on the canal, but we took a chance! We knew B...
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Wanted one for ages.... - When I brought Percy back from the bonded warehouse in 2018 after blacking the hull I did the first day and part day single handed. Our good friend and b...1 week ago
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Map Updates – Issue 109 – February 2021 - I am pleased to say the monthly updates for my maps for February 2021 are now available. All these monthly updates mean you not only start with an up to da...1 week ago
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Banbury Lift Bridge - For those of you who don't know I am at moored at Tooley's. I mention this because you will all start moving soon and some of you will head down to Banbu...1 week ago
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Fifty Years of Buses - This blog is supposed to be about buses as well as boats, so to continue the "50 years ago" theme here is a photo of a new bus that I took in Manchester...1 week ago
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Who would have believed.... - Last week then. when the saga of the sore throat continued well into a fourth day, and when a Facebook message popped up asking for everyone from the Hea...2 weeks ago
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Honeysuckle on test — and sponsored hire boats - The March issue of *Canal Boat* is out and includes my boat test on a sponsored hire boat called *Honeysuckle*, by Brayzel Boats. There is also a compan...2 weeks ago
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Looking Up - A bit more cheery this week don't you think? For a start, Kath and I have had our first jabs now. Less than five minutes from home is the Waitrose HQ...3 weeks ago
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Snowing ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ - Definitely snowing this morning Keith Welcome aboard our working boat Hadar. Pull up a chair and join as we cruise the waterways of the UK selling co...4 weeks 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...4 months ago
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What a Year! - Well, what a year it has been up to now! It's been surreal, like living in a bad movie that flopped in a spectacular way at the box office! As a key wor...4 months ago
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Leighton Buzzard to Aylesbury - *Sat 19th September* Leighton Buzzard to Seabrook Locks We shared locks with a single guy on *Hakuna Matata* for four locks – Grove, Church, Slapton and...5 months ago
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Back to the Marina - Today's Canals - Worcester and Birmingham, Droitwich We had just 15 locks to go before our marina, two flights of 6 and then the three at Hanbury just a...
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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 ...6 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...9 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...10 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...1 year 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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