A Sunday in Spring

By the time Sunday arrived spring was long gone. Admittedly the mist had cleared and the Wrekin was visible once more but there were low scudding clouds, a complete lack of sunshine and, as is always the case with this part of the Shroppie, a biting wind which chills to the bone.  There were a […]

Spring Saturday

Kathy and I arrived on Friday evening and got the boat loaded up and tried a couple of experiments with the new curtains. On Saturday morning we got up and cast off and moved over to the waterpoint. The water point at Market Drayton is far from the fastest on the system and we ignored […]

Gas and Electricity

We had another working weekend on the boat this last weekend and we were tackling two pretty big projects: 1) Replacing the gas cooker 2) Replacing the fridge. We had found a very good LPG cooker on line which has flame failure devices on all burners and an electric ignition driven from a battery. Its […]