I’m feeling a little tee’d off at the moment. With just over three weeks to go to the Liverpool Half-Marathon and my training going really w...

After an enjoyable couple of days in the bustle of Anderton, we felt that we needed a bit of peace and quiet. So we headed off northward, th...

Spring is here! St David’s day and the first day of Spring. Pretty good too, blue skies, warm(ish) sunshine, birds singing and the first spr...

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It felt very cold today. There was ice on the canal again (what’s new?), not as thick as yesterday, but there was a biting wind from the nor...

We woke up on Sunday morning with 3” of snow on the towpath. Here we go again… There was also a thin skin of snow covered ice on the water. ...

We’ve a diesel fired central heating boiler running 3 radiators as well as the domestic hot water. It’s not our primary heat source; hot wat...

We moved on from Nantwich today, heading north again. The larder and fridge are both topped up, as is the water tank and the coal stocks. Lo...

Had a day watching boats go by yesterday. Mostly hire boats, with the odd “privateer” thrown in for good measure. It was fine and dry in the...

I hope you all got at least one card. For those who didn’t, lets have a big Aaaah. I’ve just thought, that includes me…. Here's one for ...