2013 05 19 Newsletter – Keeping Dry On The Cut

Living on a Narrowboat News 19th May 2013

I try not to upset people when I write the weekly newsletters. After all, living on a narrowboat is supposed to be a stress free alternative to living in a bricks and mortar home. I don’t always succeed though. I upset at least one couple with the account of my cruise back from Braunston to Calcutt two weeks ago. I met a brand new wide beam hotel boat heading towards Braunston which required some interesting maneuvering to pass it on a section of canal with boats moored along one side.

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Life change – Selling up to live on a Wide Beam

Hi there,

Let me introduce ourselves to you;

I’m Rob, I work as a teacher/outdoor education instuctor in a special school for “naughty boys” (I’m not allowed to say that, so please don’t quote me!) it’s officially classified as SEBD, basically boys who for whatever reason have had no boundaries put in place!  I was originally trained as a musician and worked professionally for several years.

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Steppin’ Out; the epiblog part 1

14 May 2013

Hi to all and everyone who followed our progress. This has been an amazing journey for me and my crew. Some journeys aren’t just about the mileage involved sometimes it’s the inter-dimensional space time continuum transponders too. A time to just not think about anything other than the event happening to you right now. Nine days we had of that with the first four or five taking up so much of our focus and concentration purely because we hadn’t got much of a clue what we were doing. The rest of the world didn’t exist so for a short time no worries at all apart from where the next tap is? Or how the hell am I supposed to manoeuvre the damn thing into there then?

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Travels of Joanie M. Life as a Continuous Cruiser 13 May 2013

13 May 2013

We arrived in Gloucester off the River Severn on 9 April seeing a pair of Dunlins, a Kingfisher and our first Swallows on the way. Both of us glad to be here as rivers are not our favourite thing. We have been here by boat before, in 1991. Not much has changed around the docks but there is now no commercial activity other than the docks at Sharpness.

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Detailed narrowboat running costs for March 2013

13 May 2013

Oh boy, oh boy oh boy! The expenses keep on coming. I’m determined to get James in a suitable condition for long term cruising after the boat’s spent over a decade of decline stuck on a marina mooring. There’s been a huge amount to do. Sometimes I think I might have been better off spending more on a better boat. But then I look around me and know that I spent my money on the right boat. I just wish that the spending would slow down a bit.

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2013 05 12 Newsletter – An Interview With The Trust’s Head Of Boating

12 May 2013

Living on a Narrowboat News 12th May 2013

I’m always amazed how quickly you make new friends on the cut. After years of living and working in London where even my immediate neighbours were strangers, the easy going and approachable nature of most liveaboard narrowboat owners is truly refreshing.

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Our Nige; Joys of sunny days and The Dangers of The Dark Side.

9 May 2013

Bear with me folks on the Epiblog but there’s so much to do now I’m home. People visiting, getting used to the marina, fetching my worldly possessions from other peoples houses and seeing what can be dispensed with as I still need to downsize some more.

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2013 05 05 Newsletter – Narrowboat Fuel Tank Range And An Encounter With Snakes

5 May 2013

Living on a Narrowboat News 5th May 2013

I took James out for another cruise last week. I was out for longer but didn’t travel as far, not did I have nearly as much fun. I took James along to our workshops to have some more work on the engine.

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Steppin’ Out; Fradley jct to Home, Willington

29 April 2013

Hi to all welcome to the last post for this adventure. That really is what it’s been for me and Steve and Linda an adventure. Scary at times but a lot of fun and well worth the effort. Now it’s about a new life style but let us not get ahead of ourselves. We had to wait for the IR man to come and fix what turned out to be just a broken gearbox cable and away we went shortly after 11. It was a bit windy today and though it caused us a bit of a problem on occassions we coped. Steve had to come and give me a push of the bank where I’d dropped him to do the lock as even though I pushed it well out with the barge pole it was back in again by the time I’d got on board.

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Steppin’ Out; Day 8 Great Haywood to Fradley Jct

28 April 2013

A beautiful morning to wake up to, even if I didn’t see it till ten past nine. A top coat warmer it was, only two t shirts and a fleece, summer must have arrived early. I wonder if last nights drinking has anything to do with it, surely not. We frequented a place called the Clifford Arms at Great Haywood just up from the canal. It looked ok from the outside and wasn’t too bad when we walked in but not a lot of atmosphere. Not particularly a friendly place but no problem. We sampled three of the real ales for sale and they were just nondescript. They sat in the glass fine and looked ok but no real taste. We just had a couple and went back to the boat and a glass of whisky to finish off.P4280054a 300x211 Steppin Out; Day 8 Great Haywood to Fradley Jct

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