We are so glad we didn’t carry on down to Aynho yesterday. The weather today is foul. So it was breakfast, pack up and away by 10:00  

It was a very noisy night with the wind howling. The plan was to chug down to Anyho as we have a table booked at the Great Western Arms. But the weather today is cold and windy and tomorrow is forecast for much worse. So we decided to go back to the marina today and

Here for a few days with our eldest grandaughter Becca. It’s very chiily but we decided to go for it anyway. Through Cropredy lock by 13:00 and moored up at Castle Quay Banbury at  15:00. Heddi and Becca went for a mooch around the shops whilst I lit the fire and unpacked. The evening was

Down through the lock, winded just past the ‘Tramway’ moorings, up though the lock again to moor up for a cooked breakfast. Back to the mooring and left for home at 2:15.

We reversed up to the services and did a pumpout first thing, but still managed to be away by eight o’clock. The weather is bright and sunny, but cold. Frost overnight with quite a bit of ice on the roof first thing. A very pleasant chug down to Castle Quay in Banbury. The day was

We arrived yesterday afternoon after a beautiful  drive up across the Cotswold in glorious autumn sunshine. We had arranged for Clive Mant to service the engine today. He arrived at 9:30 and didnt leave ’til 1:40 and did a really thorough job. It was too late to set off after he had finished as it

A bit of a lie in this morning – away by 8:30. The forecast was for a warm day 26C plus! We followed a large group on an Oxfordshire Narrowbaots hire boat. They were all holding the boat on ropes going down the locks. It took us until 11:30 to get back into our mooring.

We spent yesterday and this morning touching up the paintwork. The boat normally next to us is in the dry dock, so we took advantage of the extra space to push JH across and work on the side that we cant usually get at. The canal was fairly busy this morning, we st off after

For the last four days we have been staying in the marina. We arrived on Wednesday and Jan and Mike came on Thursday for the opening day. Each day we walk into the festival site, it’s about a mile and a half and we carry our chairs and enough cider for the day so it’s