Our main goal this week was to get into Liverpool and we made it!!!! Despite the weather (it is more like a Renmark winter at the moment than an English summer!! or maybe they are the same thing?????), the logistics (of getting fuel, offloading waste etc) and those pesky swing bridges, we finally arrived Tuesday…
DetailsA lot can change in a week can’t it!? Here it is Sunday afternoon and Bob and Malcolm are in the pub – well that hasn’t changed!!! But our immediate plans certainly have. But first a starting point. We were based in White Bear Marina all of last weekend to enable easy access to the…
DetailsAfter a busy week we are now moored in the White Bear Marina catching up on jobs and located conveniently close to the train station for yet another trip to London on Monday for an eye check up. We have been revising plans for the last week on at least a daily basis as we…
DetailsDespite an early start on Monday 6th July to get through the Bingley Locks – two sets of staircase locks with 3 in the first and 5 in the second – we were delayed by factors beyond our control – a shortage of Canal and River Trust staff to operate the locks and too many…
DetailsAnother big week on the cut!!! We said goodbye to Darryl, farewell to Leeds and hello Leeds and Liverpool canal!!!! Last Sunday afternoon, Julia and Bron took a walk to see the Stanley Ferry Aqueducts from our nearby moorings. Another engineering masterpiece with links to the Sydney Harbour Bridge – same principles of design but…
DetailsAs 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…
DetailsFIrst 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…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsOnce 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…
DetailsOne 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…
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