We've only done 2 weeks of a Narrowboat life, but that's enough to get us hooked. Would we live on a narrowboat? No, but this life,...

I mentioned in a previous blog that the canal is such a rich tapestry of life, people who are passing through, people who live on the...

We had two of our Grandkids on the boat yesterday, which meant a small diversion in our trip and a 'there and back journey'. More of...

It's a definite fashion for liveaboards on the Grand Union Canal to construct sheds on their boats, although calling it a shed in some...

Lock keepers have been working on Britain's canals for hundreds of years, often living by the lock and collecting tolls. Tolls were...

On a yacht going aground is rather a big deal, especially if you go aground on a beach or rocks, however on a yacht it’s easily avoided...

As I write this we're moored up at Simpson, which for chums reading this who are not local, is a canal village on the south side of...

Good day today, we didn't mess up and got much further than we thought we would. We had a relatively early start so we could get to...

We usually sail this time of the year, as previous blog readers will know.  However this year we can't go to far afield so we've had to...