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Home moorings - The first couple of boat came by quite early to join the queue for the ten o’clock flight opening so we were away about half nine. Three hire boats who l...

Into Buckden Marina - Today's Navigation : River Great Ouse We had been told that the marina office opens at 9.00 so we waited until 8:45 to leave our overnight mooring. Just ...

Are we whimps? - Once again we've decided not to go boating because it's too flippin' hot. We can just about keep cool at home but with temperatures in the 30s again thi...

A big decision to make - Lots have happened since our return to FS last Tuesday. The park at Presteigne ticked all the boxes, and we came away thinking this must be the right pa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

135 Pigging Out -

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Oh Dear - Perhaps I could have been a little more forthright! I attended Northampton General Hospital (NGH) after requesting an appointment. The X-Rays, which were...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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