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Captain Carolyn
With some good weather in Cosgrove its great to get out and about after sitting in the boat on damp wet days . One of the biggest problems when we get bad weather is cabin fever , So often even if its...
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Fireworks
The view from our mooring back towards Cosgrove lock and some of the hundreds of Geese that live in this area.This lovely old working boat passed us and you could here him coming from miles away with...
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Half term on Inca
With it being half term we had the pleasure of our Granddaughter Curly (Abbie) coming to stay with us for the week. As usual it wasn't long before she jumped on to the tiller and had a go at steering...
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Waterways Chaplaincy
I meant to add this to the Blog a couple of weeks ago . We had a visit on Inca from John Le Count of The Waterways Chaplaincy a couple of weeks ago when we were at Giffard park. A lovely guy who after...
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Bleeding Hire boats
With Chloe and Curly on their way back to Devon we pulled pins at 08.55 from Linslade on Saturday and went up the lock and headed for the Tesco moorings. If you have ever been past The Wyvern Hire...
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What Gorgeous Weather
At one of our favourite moorings at Stoke Hammond and the weather is absolutely gorgeous. As the sun drops we are left with sights like this.Can you believe it. Its early November and we are still...
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Solar Slave
I said i would never be one , but i am a solar slave. Not just continuously changing the angle every few hours as the sun moves through the sky but also Im always cleaning them and removing leaves or...
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Secret weapon
After a few days moored at Fenny Stratford we moved on to Giffard park and then after a night there and a Chinese takeaway we moved to Wolverton for a Tesco shop. Mr Tesco is being a very generous man...
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Found this on London boaters Facebook page.A narrow boaters poem - enjoy The Flow I'm a narrow boater, a floating voter...emotional intelligent and mortgage freeI'm a windlass warrior not a rudderless...
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Capability Smifff ?
On Sunday and still with beautiful weather its walkies time and on our way we met up with Stewart and Fran on their boat The Boat. Whilst having a cup of tea this wide beam could be heard starting up...
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This was recently released by Canal and River Trust on their Boaters Update . I must admit i am not in favour of it becoming compulsory as suggested by some for most of the reasons against it listed...
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Pesky Pike
It seems at Cosgrove no one knows how long you can stay on the moorings and it could be anything between 48 hours and 2 weeks. Something really needs to be done about signage as we have seen signs...
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OLD GIT
We pulled pins from Fenny Stratford on Tuesday at 10.25 after Carolyn did a quick shop to get a Newspaper and some milk. Passing this shed Carolyn reckons it would be perfect for me.Passing Willow...
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Cyclists Beware
On the news yesterday was the story about Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine getting caught doing 16 mph in Hyde Park where the speed limit for cyclists is 5 mph. The topic was discussed on his programme,...
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Narrowboat roof clutter
As i mentioned in our last post Carolyn was off to buy a new bike. Although we both had bikes when we first started out we soon found out that we hardly ever used them. So they were sent back down to...
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Brass Farthing
After a day of chilling above Church lock near Leighton Buzzard we pulled pins on Thursday morning at 09.55 and headed towards Pitstone and to a mooring we always enjoy stopping at . We passed a Wide...
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Selfish
There are two things that rule my life. The first one is obviously Carolyn and the second is our Smartgauge. If i had a pound for every time myself and Carolyn looked at it to check the battery...
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Leaky locks !!!!
Not that we travel during the hours of darkness but the 3 locks below Cowroast on The Grand union canal now have a restriction on them due to water loss.Surely if you are going up hill and you are...
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Speeding boats again.
After arriving at Berkhamsted we picked up this mooring on the park side of the canal. There were a couple of spare moorings on the towpath side ,but the mud was so bad we opted for the off side. I am...
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Miserable Anglers again
After what seemed like weeks, although it wasn't even a week it was time to leave Berkhamsted. Carolyn probably would have stayed longer as she really enjoyed the Town with its diversity of shops....
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