On a beautiful spring day, we headed up the Macclesfield canal for a few days but needed to find a winding hole to turn the boat around ready to head back towards Congleton at the end of the week. Here’s a short 2 minute video (yes it takes that long to spin a boat around)…
A very windy Tixall Wide
It might not have been beautiful weather, but it certainly made it’s presence felt! Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice sent some lovely waves across the lake that we were moored on, lapping against the gunnels and bouncing the boat around. Tixall Wide is near to Great Hayward and Shrugborough Hall. It is a lovely wide…
The Curse of Stone
So we have headed south from Congleton, down the Macclesfield canal and on to the Trent and Mersey canal, through the Harecastle Tunnel and into Stoke-on-Trent. Ian’s famous last words as we set off from Eturia were “It’s not raining- we can do these locks” He was right, it didn’t just rain, it hailed and…
Time to reflect
It’s been a tough start to the year. Nothing ever goes the way you plan it, but that is life and we have little choice but to go with the flow and follow it’s course. On 20th January, after over eight years of living with Alzeheimers disease, my father finally found peace. His Alzheimer’s journey…
Making our boat our home
Yes, well it was always going to be a challenge! We have carried multiple bags and boxes up and down the muddy tow path adding and swapping stuff to ensure that we have our favourite things in our new home. List of absolute essentials: Ian’s framed collection of signed Marillion album covers Heather’s anodised pots…
A nightmare and a little meander
We spent the last week exhausting ourselves completing the clearing and cleaning our five bed, three storey house with multiple trips to the tip, charity shops and Ian’s Mum’s garage for storage. It’s been a nightmare, but the end result is that the house is ready for completion-on a sale that was agreed five months…
Bristol harbour by night
Bristol is a place that I used to have to drive to at speed from Swindon. This time it was a leisurely ride to the Baltic Wharf followed by a short ferry and a meal in a rather lovely tapas restaurant by the floating harbour. Walking back was a treat of city lights and reflections.
An amazing dawn!
So, I’m not Ian! I’m his other half and this blog is now a joint enterprise and this is my first ever post on a blog!! In early December we headed south for a few days in “Hollie” and tried out a little wild camping by Stonehenge. We arrived as it was going dark and…
All change…
Return Home
We’re home. And I might need another holiday to recover. We ascended the Stoke Locks today. Over the past two days we’ve seen more boats moving than the previous two weeks. Today was no exception. After lunch at Westport, we headed for the Harecastle Tunnel. We headed in as number 2 in a group of…