Well now, there's a thing! Helpful comments from Frank and Dave (thanks chaps) on my last post caused me to doubt my decision to connect...

Having decided to up our solar power on Herbie, there’s a bit of technical/ electrical planning to do, so for the record and in case it help...

I’m astonished to look back at old posts and find that it is seven years since we fitted our solar panel on Herbie.  Perhaps that roof corro...

Sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it?  Let me explain.  The paint on a boat roof has a hard time, sun, rain, frost, lying snow, poles, planks,...

Here’s my finished (all bar a coat of varnish) cratch mullion.  True to form the masking tape had bled here and there because of the grain o...

The formerly cancelled Banbury Canal Day has been un-cancelled.  A planned building extension across the canal was supposed to be started by...

The schools have broken up and now it seems to want to rain.  Aah well, it does that.  The July CRT Reservoir Watch figures show quite a var...

Phew, despite frequent rain showers, I've repainted Herbie's cratch front over ten times today. All in a search to find a design Kat...

When I said in my last post, part 2 “tomorrow”, I meant that in the Donald trump sense.  Don’t worry, it’s gonna be great. I feel I have ade...

There follows below, a Learned Treatise on Dogs on (Canal) Boats and Their Owners, and as the author of said Treatise I shall commence by de...

As the sunset falls over our peaceful mooring tonight at Kirtlington quarry, I ponder why I have suddenly become attractive to young women...

Having cruised down to Oxford in three days, we're now aiming to take seven days to get back. After two very short days we find ourselv...