Ah the boat. Sometimes I love it and sometimes I hate it. See living in a flat was always just alright, not hugely exciting but then pretty reliable. I mean its always in the same place, there’s always water coming out of the taps and always warm when you get home. The boat is a [...]

Just a quick one this, despite butchering a couple of pheasants the other day these three swans have made friends with me, even followed me up the canal this morning en route to work. I have a tendency to buy loaves of bread, then ignore them in the bread bin till they’re completely stale, which [...]

Last night I had a realisation. The last ten days I’ve been living my life around the boat when really, it should be working for me! Mainly it manifests as little worries when I’m out and about like “has the heating come on” and “are the batteries going flat” and I kind of feel the [...]

I was recently given a couple of Pheasants. Proper country style, fully feathered and hung by the neck. Jens friends husband shot them and had hung them for about 5 days before I was kindly donated “a brace” (that means two of them) one lunchtime. They spent half a day in and our of cold [...]

I’ve finally taken over as skipper of what is surely the finest narrowboat on the whole of the Grand Union canal! Saturday I climbed aboard and unpacked most of my gear, spending the first night drinking rum, finding holes to hide stuff in and burning through about a weeks worth of logs. Seriously, it was [...]

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