What do you do while you are watching paint dry? Well, as the colours harden on my roof box, we've had a day off to pay one of our occ...

Flippin’ Dulux Weathershield paint – that’s what! According to my blog archives, it was May 2011 when I made and painted Herbie’s current ...

Today was my first “proper job” driving boats for CRT and now I know a tiny bit about how canals are inspected.  The (volunteer) job was to ...

We arrived by car at Crick late last night only to find the access road to our part of the marina closed.  We found out why when we awoke th...

Not only did we not come last in yesterday’s quiz at the Wheatsheaf in Crick, but we actually got on the podium!!!  Yes, us Herbies joined f...

Flippin' Met Office! Ever since they left Bracknell where I could keep an eye on them, and scarpered off down to Exeter, the weather ha...

Herbie is looking a bit like a Mars lander today, which is to say it is covered in red dust. I've been rubbing down the red paint on t...

Yesterday I went to a volunteer meeting at the CRT Docklands Office.  I’d not been there before. The building itself is pretty unremarkable,...

Oh well, you’d better ignore my previous post ‘cos I just got a mail saying that the boat we were going to be using on Wednesday (Griffin) h...

I've just been given my first proper CRT boat moving job since passing my assessments, and it could hardly be better suited for me.  Tha...

I’ve just got round to trying out one of my Christmas presents thanks to our local council cutting up a damaged ornamental cherry tree down ...

I don’t know what to think about this boat we saw on the Thames in Reading yesterday. Well three boats actually, but it’s the big one at t...