Living on a Narrowboat
Travelling from Onley to Anstey on the Grand Union. A short guide to narrowboat mooring.
Well. I’ve got all the time in the world now. Doesn’t make that much difference though. I like to keep the boat at a fairly steady speed even if I don’t have a whole lot to do when I get there.
Last time I made this journey, I was a boating noob. Now I’ve got a few years under my belt, one of the first things I notice was as above.
It’s like a mooring desert….
Continue reading “Onley to Anstey”Storm force winds and wind and rain for the next seven days have put paid to the 0.2 version of this journey.
It’s not going to happen. Certainly not in a round-a-bout the UK waterways way.
After hearing the longer term radio forecast in the evening, I started to get the idea that the weather might not be that good… I re-checked the Metoffice whilst taking my evening walk. 7-day forecast. It was indeed rain and dark clouds. ‘Storm’ conditions according to the radio.
Not what I signed up for.
Maybe another time….
Now, I’m heading back toward the Oxford canal, and back up the Grand Union, as per my original plan.
I’m just going to go to a new section of canal, so, more about the journey there.
No holiday.
Moving from the Grand Union, Northamptonshire. I’ve continuous cruised here for 3 years, today I move.
It was my home for 3 or so years. The time has come to move-on.
Here’s some visual highlights from my time on the Grand Union from Milton Keynes upward.
Seeing as now I am work-less. I’ve decided it’s time to explore some more of the UK waterways.
Continue reading “Bye bye Northamptonshire”Death and the mortal fear of death in and around Braunston, the nasty nexus.
Or Braunston as some people call it. A place where;
Boaters paradise… Good value eh?
Apart from writing a blog post about the place and spending my winter mooring here in 2017, I don’t think I’ve done anything TO the place.
The people vandalise, assault, steal and are generally as unpleasant as they can be without resorting to violence. Which is not always true….
Remember this guy? He decided he didn’t like me when I was eating dinner al-fresco, and he was retrieving a tyre from the other side of the canal.
Continue reading “Welcome to the Nasty Nexus”Death cancer causing windmill zombies feeding on demon horsemen close to M1 in Northamptonshire.
Close to the lost village. Apparently lost during the time of the black death. As so much of the population was destroyed at this time, many small villages ceased to exist. Their residents turned into zombies. Muscottities still haunt the hills and dales near the M1. I even heard it was them that put up the windmills…. Although that could be ‘fake news’… Windmills cause cancer… We all know that…
Continue reading “Muscott”
