No, not a typo, that’s what it says on the sign… The common is an area of rising ground north of the railway and east of the town. There ar...

Saturday and yesterday we came up through Stone, moving from below Star Lock to the straight below Meaford Locks. It turned into two days b...

I don’t envy any boaters who have to move today! It’s not just the snow, there’s a bitterly cold easterly that’s driving it. It starte...

That’s it, it’s the Vernal Equinox, it’s officially Spring. Not that it feels like it, and the forecast for the next few days is worse, with...

…Arrr! This afternoon’s stroll took us up into Burston village, which has a picturesque village pond. Burston Pond It’ll look great i...

Did well for freebies today. First off someone had left a piling hook at the water point, then, as we pulled off after using the facilities,...

Meg and I had a walk around this end of the parkland around Shugborough Hall. It’s right alongside the canal, so easily accessible. The cr...

We moved up to Great Haywood today, with Chas and Ann off NB Moore2Life meeting us at Colwich Lock. Lock gate heaving at Colwich They ...

Said the soothsayer to Julius Caesar. At least according to Shakespeare’s version of events. This was 44BC, 2027 years before Mags and I mar...