A day of visitors. Adam and Sian arrived at 10:30 and we took them for a chug up to Saul. We moored up and then retraced yesterday’s walk back to their car, then on to pick up our car. Meanwhile we had a call from Nikki saying that they were on the way. We told

A good day weatherwise. The clouds have gatthered a bit since first thing, but there’s still blue in the sky. Loads of bird song here. Our ‘Merlin’ song recogition app has detected 8 or 9 different ones. This afternoon I did a bit of maintenance. It started off with just scleaning up the locker where

On the move today. We began by driving via Tesco at Cam to Splatt bridge at Church end Frampton. Conveniently there was space in the little car park not under a tree so we left it there. Then it was a walk back to Slimbridge to get the boat. After topping up the water we

This morning we went down to the WWT to give the car a bit more charge. It dint work properly the first time. So we had to have a second walk around and a trip to the cafe while it did charge the second time. The afternoon was spent on various maintenance jobs. Heddi did

Yesterday Steve & Lori came round in the morning for a cuppa and to natter about old people’s health issues! Heddi went to her choir rehearsals in the afternoon. I turned the boat around in order to work on the ongoing problem of the water ingress around the side hatch. The Smart needed charging this

We have been to the dentist this afternoon, then drove straight back to here. With the Smart in the car park we walked up the towpath to Splatt bridge to get the boat and then chugged back to Patch bridge. Luckily there was a space for us on the non towpath side. So we moored

Our worst weather day. It started off very cold and by by the time we reached Frampton it was really cold, wet and windy. We had a real struggle mooring up as the wind was coming right across the canal and Heddi couldn’t hold the boat on her own whilst I hammered in the pins,