When we had the engine services before Christmas Clive mentioned that our diesel tank was rather contaminated with water and crud. He recommended that we have the fuel ‘polished’. This is achieved by passing the fuel contents repeatedly through  a series of filters. We contacted Tankbusters who came today to carry out the polishing. It

Another cooked breakfast ! Then journeying on to just opposite the engine arm at the top of the Napton flight. We are due to meet up with some other Cutwebbers in the Folly Inn this evening. We will walk down the locks as we dont have time tomorrow to get back to the marina if we

We arrived yesterday after a ride up across the Cotswolds in the cold and wet. I tried to get the Eberspacher going, but it wouldn’t fire up. Got the fire going instead. This morning, after a cooked breakfast,  we reversed back across the marina to top up with fuel and get a bag of coal.

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.