With the news yesterday that our house move won’t happen for two or three weeks we have travelled back to Mercia Marina today to go back on board Shell Bell. We travelled up late morning arriving at the Marina around 3pm. The afternoon and evening was spent getting things ship shape, a nice walk up the towpath […]
Well the last few days have been a mixture of packing, walking and fishing. We are nearly as far as we can go with the packing, but we still don’t have a date for exchange or moving.There seems to be a hold up with our purchaser’s sale. We hope to have more information tomorrow. Norwyn has done […]
The weekend was wet and windy which was not good news for the thousands of people going to the Latitude festival which is only about 12 miles from where we live. Youngest son Ben was home this weekend so we were able to show him the bungalow in Beccles that we hope to move into […]
Well it has been a busy few days packing things away and generally getting ready to move house, including cutting the grass which had shot up whilst we were away. We were expecting to exchange contracts this week but so far no news on that front. Norwyn went fishing at Bennets gravel pit on Tuesday and […]
Saturday would be spent travelling back home. We left Willington at 11.00, heading for Nottingham where we had to wait an hour for our connecting train to Norwich. A tedious journey, not nearly as good as travelling by narrowboat. We were thankful that Scott was waiting for us at the station (another bottle of wine for […]
Another very wet morning as we slipped the moorings at Branston water park for our run up to Willington. The rain was a bit persistant as we made good headway spotting another famous bloggers boat at Horninglow basin in the shape of narrowboat Granny Buttons. With the last lock of the day at Burton done […]
The plan today was to go down the Coventry canal and make our way to Northampton, but with news from home about our house sale we have to return to Suffolk. So an early start this morning as we have decided to head back to Mercia marina and leave the boat there. We called them around […]
We awoke this morning to heavy rain and it looked like it was going to hang around, so after checking the engine oil and water,oh and of course the crayfish trap (yet again more fish than crays) we set off. Soon the first of what was to be five locks in total today came into view, […]
A later start today, it was 10:30 when we set off from Barleston this morning. Although overcast it was warm. After about an hour we came to the Meaford flight of four locks. Our passage through was good with no issues and once through we headed for Stone. Coming into Stone we arrived at the […]
It was obviously not going to be a good day when we found the crayfish net contained four roach, four gudgeon and only one crayfish. All were released without harm. Soon we had passed through hall green lock – a tiny one which only lowered the boat by one foot – compared to some which are […]