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Wednesday 20th May 2009
A much better day weatherwise - bright and sunny. We pottered around the boat, I took Ebony for a reluctant walk, her not me, while Tom cleaned the boat. In the afternoon the horse arrived pulling the...
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Thursday 21st May 2009
The Butchers at YelvetoftThe Main Street at YelvetoftWe went for a bike ride this morning to Yelvetoft, a nearby village. We had heard there was a good butcher, and wanted to stock up on meat. It is a...
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Monday 25th May 2009 - Crick
3 views of the show. All the chandlery was in tents at the back of the marinaAn old icebreaker on display. Before it was mechanised it was pulled by 18 horses.Just a quick update - 3 glorious days for...
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Thursday 4th June 2009
At last it was time to leave Crick. We have been there nearly three weeks, and whilst it is a beautiful location, we had started to get itchy feet. On a positive side, the bridesmaids dresses are...
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Friday 5th June 2009
It was cold this morning and we were almost back to winter clothes again. We set off at 0915hrs and knew we were getting close to the Blisworth tunnel - the third longest canal tunnel open to...
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Saturday 6th June 2009
It poured with rain all night and into the morning. I had a walk into the village of Yardley Gobion and bought the newspaper, before settling in to wait for Cathy and Simon. We had managed to find a...
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Sunday 7th June 2009
It was raining hard this morning and we decided to have a cooked breakfast and only move on if the weather improved. We were pleasantly surprised when it dried up and the sun came out and we were on...
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Monday 8th June 2009
For some reason we are waking up very early each morning and as we could hear that it was raining again this morning, we had our leisurely cup of tea in bed listening to Terry Wogan By 0900hrs it had...
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Tuesday 9th June 2009
It rained again last night and was still a bit dull in the morning. We knew we only had one lock and a very short distance to go until we moored for Tesco. We arrived at 1100hrs and then had two hours...
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Wednesday 10th June 2009
Our usual start of 0930hrs, although the weather wasn't very promising and sure enough almost immediately it started to rain. We did stop for a drink after about an hour to see if it was going to...
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Thursday 11th June 2009
Unusual wildlife seen on the walk to Wendover (no trickery used)It was a beautiful sunny morning and we decided to walk to the end of the Wendover Arm. The guide book said it was five and a half miles...
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Friday 12th June. We left the end of the Wendover arm and went over old ground to continue our journey. One of the boats that wasn't tethered was still across the canal, so yet again we nudged past it,...
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Tuesday 16th June 2009
A beautiful sunny day and we were on our way by 0910hrs. The canal was very quiet and we didn't meet any boats going our way and only a couple going in the opposite direction. This meant that most of...
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Wednesday 17th June 2009
It was still bright and sunny but quite windy this morning. We were in a really nice setting and it was tempting to stay there another day, but the weather forecast wasn't that good so we decided to...
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Thursday 18th June 2009
As promised pictures of the boats from our overnight mooring. We found out why the canal was so quiet yesterday. A body was discovered at one of the locks in Hemel Hempsted in the early hours and...
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Friday 19th June 2009
We set off at 1100hrs for a much easier day - only two locks to go through. This was a sign on one of the boats that we passed which caught our attention.There were some nice properties with gardens...
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"Lottie" all "Shipshape and Bristol Fashion"awaiting a diesel fill - upWe set off at 0900hrs on quite a chilly morning - back to long trousers and a jumper. It took us about an hour to get to Bull's...
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Sunday 21st June 2009
We had a good start to the day after an uneventful night in Paddington Basin. As it was fine we went for a walk to investigate the local area.Lottie and Lee arrive for the dayAs it was Father's Day,...
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Monday 22nd June 2009
We arranged to meet Pete and Jeanette from "Joanie M" at Limehouse Basin later today, so left Paddington at about 1015hrs to set off on the Regent's Canal.The view of Little Venice fromthe east of...
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Tuesday 23rd June 2009
A very sunny start to the day and after filling up with water etc, we followed "JoanieM" out of the Limehouse Basin down the Limehouse cut to join the River Lee.Taking on water at Limehouse Basin...
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Wednesday 24th June 2009
Another sunny day, and we set off by foot to explore Waltham Abbey. It was no distance from the boat and we spent a leisurely couple of hours looking at the church and the remains of the abbey.Waltham...
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Thursday 25th June 2009
We started the day with a walk into the town of Ware. It was another warm day and we spent a pleasant couple of hours looking around. It is a very pretty town with the river running through it.The view...
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Sunday 28th June 2009
We have had poor signal for the last two days so haven't been able to post. Since we last wrote we left the River Lee and joined the River Stort. This river is much more narrow and reminded us very...
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Monday 29th June 2009
We spent a couple of hours catching up on the boat chores which meant we didn't set off until 12 midday. What a mistake as by that time it was already very hot. We had already planned to stop at Roydon...
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Tuesday 30th June 2009
Hertford Link (which avoids Limehouse Basin) Popular moorings for live-aboards.We had an early start and left our mooring at 0715hrs to try to get a few hours travelling under our belt before it became...
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