As we sat in Dingle on Sunday afternoon, Bob, Darryl and Malcolm returned to the Dingle Hotel for a customary Sunday afternoon pint (or two). To say that the English folk are wary of insects is to underplay it a bit and whilst there Darryl played his version of Crocodile Dundee wrestling a moth to…
FIrst of all, Happy Father’s Day to all fathers whether you celebrate today or on the first Sunday in September (as we do in Australia!). There are lots of dads and kids around today clearly enjoying their day together despite the questionable weather. And secondly a big hello to all the friends and family of…
We had a fairly successful trip to the eye specialist and returned back to Macclesfield to be greeted by Julia as we walked over the bridge near the boat – she wanted to make sure we got back safely. We made plans to head off on Tuesday morning at a reasonable time and make it…
Once we had arrived back in Red Bull and sorted ourselves out, our cousins from Perth Australia, Brenda and Arthur sent a text saying they had arrived in the Red Bull Pub car park. Having driven up from Essex after receiving our message of all good to go from the hospital, we were relieved that…
One of the joys of living on a narrowboat in the UK is that we get to spend some time with Bob’s relatives who live here and sometimes some of them visit from Australia. Over the last weekend in May we travelled again to Maldon to spend time with Julie and Phil, but with the…