We are now getting rather frustrated at how long the paint job is taking. Each time I ring Bob he has another reason (excuse) why it’s not finished yet. It is now about 2 and a half months and it could be another week before it’s ready. Obviously we dont want a ‘rush job’, but

We delivered the boat to Bob Mitchell at Fenny Compton on 24th March. He was due to start the paint job on 27th. We expected it to take about 3 weeks. But unfortunately the job for the boat in the dry dock before ours overran by 2-3 weeks. So now we dont expect ours to

We started the day at nine o’clock with a wonderful cooked breakfast before setting off to meet Bob at 11:30am. The repaint date has been set for March 27th and colours have been agreed, apparently we were the most organised cutomers he’d ever had! We left Bob and went for a walk round the extremely

Just here for a couple of nights, mainly to go to see Bob Mitchell about the repaint. We have grandson Josh with us. On the way here we called in at the West Midlands boat jumble at Throckmorton airfield. We bought some rope and a new rear fender. The weather today has been really good,

Just a short chug down to Banbury, going back tomorrow. The floods seem to have gone down a bit, though there is still a lot of water rushing down the by-washes. We arrived here about 3 o’clock and popped into Castle Quay for a bit of shopping. Back to Cropredy tomorrow.  

The  weather was appalling as we drove to Stourport, with the spray on the M40 making for very poor visibility. Lunch was served soon after we arrived at Andrew & Shiela’s. We worked off the lunch by taking Dylan the dog for a walk as the rain had stopped. The evening was spent nattering, consuming

The plan was to set off this morning for Braunston to meet friends Andrew & Sheila on NB ‘Uncle Mort’ for New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately the weather has taken control of things. When we awoke it was blowing a gale and raining hard. The forecast for the next few days is pretty dire. A flurry

After a ‘Champagne Afternoon Tea’ at Thornbury Castle to celebrate a friends 60th birthday we drove to Cropredy, lit the fire, had a glass of wine and went to bed.  

We have been considering for some time that the boat needs a re-paint. It’s a big decision, and a lot of money, so we didnt want to rush it. Over the summer we had been looking at lots of boats and assessing the colours and style of the paintwork. We had talked to lots of

Saturday We are going to cycle, on our new Tern fold-up bikes, to the Banbury Canal day tomorrow. To get there from our mooring in the marina would entail going all round the marina, out onto the road and then into the village to get on the towpath. So instead we came just outside the