This morning we just  chugged the few hundred yards to the service block, did a pumpout, topped up the water and returned to our mooring. Back home after lunch.

The plan for a couple of days was to make a short trip up to Stourbridge today and back tomorrow. We untied, went up though Hyde lock. (Where BW workmen were installing a new handrail as a result of the accident at Stourport). As we came up in the lock it was obvious that beyond

We had planned to come and check all was OK last weekend, but my health conspired against us. I had had a heavy chesty cough for a while and thought “It’ll go away, I’ll shake it off”. But it didn’t go away it got worse until one evening I collapsed with difficulty in breathing and

We have have spent a few odd nights onboard since October, but we haven’t actually moved. We popped up this weekend to check things were OK. I have developed a little box of tricks that monitors things on board, e.g. temperature & battery state. It regularly sends data back to a server via the mobile

We have been here since Thursday. The weather for our last day cruising was grey and damp. We set off about 9ish and were back here by noon. We spent the afternoon making the security bars for the windows. We want them to be a deterrent but not to be to obtrusive, so we made