It’s a stunning time of year with low beams of sunlight cutting through the trees and periods of snow and frost carpeting the countryside like a quilt. The Maccy (Macclesfield Canal) is an easy stretch to find moorings on for the winter season, it doesn’t flood and we’re always within a couple of miles of…
Leaky bottoms on the Maccy
No more blue skies for us and daytime temperatures over 20 degrees lower, we’re back in Cheshire. We spent a couple of days in Lyme View Marina doing laundry, getting over jet lag and reacclimatising before we then headed back out onto the cut. I don’t think we’ve ever seen…
Having a swell time at sea!
We were only supposed to do one Cruise ship cruise a year, but in January when I asked Ian what he wanted to do for his BIG birthday this year, he said without any hesitation, a transatlantic cruise to the Caribbean (I really hadn’t expected that!). So here we are just back from our second…
Nipping to North Wales
We’ve moored the boat up for a few weeks and followed the sun in Hollie the van for a few days of calm along the Welsh coastline. Bennar Beach Campsite is just south of Shell Island (which closed for the winter last weekend) and it’s just a short distance along a boardwalk to the sandy…
Getting Steamed Up at Bugsworth Basin
It already seems like a lifetime since we were driving around the North Yorkshire coast in the motorhome. We’ve spent the last few weeks back home on the boat dawdling our way up the Macclesfield Canal towards Marple. However, we did put a sudden spurt on when we noticed that the water level had dropped…
Drama on the coast
In September, we escaped from canal life for a few days and headed off in Hollie (our motorhome) across the Peak District to the North East Coast of England. Ian’s family are originally from Yorkshire, so they used to drive this route every Christmas. Thankfully the roads are much improved, and we did avoid the…
Bang on the Maccy
We made it back onto the Macclesfield Canal and even got our favourite mooring on the embankment that overlooks the Dane in Shaw Valley. Passing through Hall Green Stop Lock, at the start of the Maccy, always gives us a feeling of arriving home, well, technically it is as we were both born within a…
Return to Base
We are on a mission! We have ten days to get back onto the Macclesfield Canal in time for me to have yet another operation. This time it’s a reconstruction of my right shoulder from an event that took place 10 years ago when our, then new to us, dog decided to try and rip…
Cruising Big Ship Style
It’s been a strange few weeks and I’ve almost had separation anxiety from our poor boat! Heron was left at Red Hill Marina for a rather delayed clear out and repainting of the inside of her freshwater tank and a complete sandblast and repaint of her hull. I feel guilty because we weren’t there to…
A Lazy May
It was time to get back to the boat, but our planned lazy May began with a rather expensive hiccup. After the trip to the Hebrides, Hollie the van/motorhome was due some serious TLC. Time for a full service and MOT plus new tyres and a look at the injectors that had caused some of…