Monday 20th October 2025
Rain, rain and more rain. It’s just what we need to fill the reservoirs and get the canals moving again. I sort of wished it hadn’t coincided with two days of many locks travelling out of Chester. At times, the rain came down in torrents, usually when I was in a lock chamber. We met…
Saturday, 11th October 2025
What I love about going somewhere new is that we just don’t know what is around the corner. Sometimes, that’s not such a good thing. Today however, as 1330hrs approached and my stomach started protesting, we came across an eclectic cafe and cheese shop, selling all sorts of things from Marmalade gin, to ladies summer…
Wednesday, 17th September 2025
One of the aspects of a broken foot is only requiring one shoe. One of the challenges, when constantly on the move, is finding the discarded shoe once your foot is healed. I broke my foot whilst wearing winter trainers and then the summer arrived. By the time I required my trainers again I had…
Friday, 25 July 2025
A good use of time to write an update whilst sitting in the minor injury unit at Oswestry. More knee saga – how old injuries come back to bite you as you age! Not particularly painful but swollen and immobile, which isn’t easy when you want to jump on and off the boat. Nor very…
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