Thursday, 29 April 2010

Thursday 29 April Napton

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Yesterday evening two fishermen set up shop between the front of our boat and the entrance to the marina for an all night session after carp...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Wednesday 28 Ventnor Farm

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Last night we ate in the 2 Boats,they had a good range of beer on in readiness for this weekends beer festival where all 6 pubs in the villa...
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Tuesday 27 April Long Itchington

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We had a late start today as there were one or two jobs I wanted to do in the engine room and its more comfortable with the engine cold, con...
Monday, 26 April 2010

Monday 26 April Radford Semele

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This morning I woke again to the dawn chorus, if its that good why don't they do it at a reasonable time of day like 7 am.? We left L...
Sunday, 25 April 2010

Sunday 25 April

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Last nights moorings were much quieter than I expected them to be. As we were in town we ate out,walking a few hundred yards from the basin/...
Saturday, 24 April 2010

Sat 24 April 10 Stratford on Avon

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Last night we ate in the Fleur de Lays. The food was well up to its normal standard and luckily I had the foresight to walk round when we fi...
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Friday, 23 April 2010

Fri 23 April Lowsonford

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Last night we were moored up with slack lines and hard aground but during the evening the pound rose by a good 4 inches so by the time we we...
Thursday, 22 April 2010

Thursday 22 Warwick

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Not so cold last night and several planes crossing the sky. I had to slack the mooring ropes and push Harnser from the towing path to try to...
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Wednesday 21 April 2 4 1

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Today you have 2-4-1 Tuesday and Wednesday. We left home just after lunch on Tuesday, Once we had got by all the tractors, skip lorries to...
Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Tuesday Wormleighton to Napton

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It was a full moon last night but you couldn't see it because of the cloud. When I took the dog out last thing it was fine drizzle, he w...
Monday, 29 March 2010

Monday Wormleighton to Wormleighton via Fenny Compton

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We woke to rain,only to be expected as it was very cloudy last night and the pressure has been falling steadily. so we were in no hurry to g...
Sunday, 28 March 2010

Sunday Braunston to Wormleighton

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We woke at a reasonable time considering the clocks changed last night, I do wonder if the boats each side of us forgot to change there cloc...
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Saturday, 27 March 2010

Saturday Crick to Braunston

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This morning started much brighter and we were away just before 10 am. We arrived at the Watford flight just as a boat was coming into the t...
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Friday, 26 March 2010

Friday North Kilworth to Crick

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last night the wind blew and the rain hammered down, it was a good job we were eating on board and apart from walking the dog we didn't ...
Thursday, 25 March 2010

Thursday Foxton to North Kilworth

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The heavy rain of last night lead us to a very spring like morning,warm and sunny with very little wind. We said goodbye to Clive and Rita o...
Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Wednesday Market Harborough to Foxton

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Last night we went with Clive and Rita for a meal at The Waterfront and were most impressed, for the type of establishment and food it was v...
Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Tuesday Foxton to Market Harborough

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Last night we had an enjoyable meal in The Foxton Locks Inn with Clive and Rita. It was a lovely clear star lit night which caused the tempe...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Monday Market Harborough to Foxton

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After walking round the the BW office to buy a new pump out card we set off at about 10 am. Although it was sunny it was quite windy which m...
Sunday, 21 March 2010

Sunday North Kilworth to Market Harborough

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We looked out at about 7 am and it was decidedly foggy, but very bright above with all the signs of being a grand day. By the time we were u...
Saturday, 20 March 2010

Saturday Welford to North Kilworth

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Not much of a trip today really, we woke at a reasonable time and the weather was fine,but it didn't last long and soon we were in stead...
Friday, 19 March 2010

Friday Crick to Welford

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Last night we moored nose to nose with a boat painted in an almost colour scheme to ours except they had a red roof where as we have a grey ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010

Thursday Braunston to Crick

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9 am and I am off out with the dog walking with Brian from RN and his dog Ghost, Diana is off to the village to get a few odds and ends with...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Wednesday 17/03/10 Napton to Braunston

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We actually arrived at the boat last night at about 6 pm. While I filled the water system, no leaks this time and lit the stove Diana trundl...
Friday, 19 February 2010

Observer Ethical Award nb. Tia

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Many of you in the Braunston/Napton area will have come across Graham on Narrowboat Tia selling Ecover cleaning products. Graham has put his...
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Tuesday Fenny to Napton

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Last night we ate in the Fenny Wharf,it was curry and a pint for £5 - 95 followed by a sweet which was not included. We had not been in bed ...
Monday, 15 February 2010

Monday Cropredy to Fenny Compton

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We set off at our normal 10 o'clock ish, there had already been a few boats past. Diana discovered the British Waterways Lock Garden tha...
Sunday, 14 February 2010

Sunday Kings Sutton to Cropredy

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Not long after we moored up yesterday evening two other boats joined us,one in front and one astern.  We set off this morning at 10 am and s...
Saturday, 13 February 2010

Saturday Lower Heyford to Kings Sutton

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Last night we ate at The Bell, both the quality and the quantity was of their normal high standard. We had a table for 7 in the restaurant, ...