And I’m back!
It's been a while since I blogged as life just got in the way. My job radically changed, I started to deal with some personal stuff, I said goodbye to…
Fancy a bit of night cruising?
Taking advantage of an unplanned couple of days off we decided, uncharacteristically, to have a cheeky little trip out, taking advantage of the late autumn weather. During our recent meander…
Sunshine on The Coventry
A whole 8 days. No work. No plans. Apart from a bit of summer boating. With nothing specific planned except sporadically rescuing Betty from the canal and a trip up…
Sprucing up the mooring with absolutely no flashing at all. Honest.
Our lovely little mooring has been a bit neglected for a long time. When daughter number 1 and I came to view the mooring, it was completely overgrown. The owner,…
Happy family boating!
Half term. That pesky random confluence of the stars has aligned and daughter number 1 is home from university, gleefully spreading her mess, sorry, belongings, around the house. Every clear…
Fancy a quick one?
Quite soon after deciding that we will not be taking the teenager on the boat again unless she begs, we found ourselves with a few free days. Usurprisingly, we loaded…
Post-nights confusion
Facing the correct way to take her back into the marina for work on the fuel tank, after we had turned her around and left Shobnall with some of our…
The turn around
Bringing the boat out of the marina and back to the mooring after her recent blacking was relatively stress free with no major incident to report. We had popped her…
Should I be excited about bottom blacking?
The boat has been booked in to have her hull blacked in April since October last year. She is booked into Streethay services at their Willington base, which, coincidentally is…
Fangirling while moving to our new mooring
As you may know we have a new linear mooring in Eggington that I am very excited about. Instead of studying for post-graduate exams I am planning a woodland garden…