Excuse the smeary side of Herbie, I ran out of polish.  Anyhow I'm beginning to enjoy our plastic magnetic lettering.  I've taken ...

 Blimey, I just Googled 'canal reservoir watch' and this is what came up; I don't know about you, but if I couldn't bring my...

 We enjoyed spotting the traditional misplacement of canal locks in the episode of Endeavour we watched last night.  Following the habitual ...

  Herbie now rests safely nestled among the other inhabitants of Wigrams Turn Marina.  The diamond pattern roof box gives her away.  Not exa...

I hesitate to admit this but I seem to have done it again.  Not content with falling off a wall and breaking ribs in April and drilling a ho...

Someone told me that summer marches north at the pace of a walking man.  Hmm, well I'm not sure how long it would take me to walk from  ...

How's that for click bait?  Apologies, but I have to get someone to read this stuff somehow. Want to see my pudding tonight? Well I did ...

When the sun is in and the landscape is ordinary, there's always the sky to make a picture a bit more interesting. That's my excuse ...

Being a Dad /Grandpa has its rewards but it don't 'arf make complicated sometimes. Peter (son) fancies coming for a boating trip wit...

Well I'm pretty sure that the Oxford canal on Monday and Tuesday was as busy as I have ever seen it!  For our first post lockdown jaunt ...

Herbie seems to have survived lockdown and much to our relief is still afloat.  Yesterday we drove out to Wigram's Turn to open her up f...

So now people can go boating and stay overnight.  Is that technically the end of lockdown then?  We should examine the definition in context...