Still no reply from my MP regarding my plea for him to oppose the proposed cuts to CRT funding, but at least one MP is doing something abou...

 James Sunderland MP hasn't yet replied to my email about CRT cuts (see my earlier post).  Either he's on holiday or he can't be...

 Royal Leamington Spa sounds pretty grand don't you think?  Well some of it is, but if you cruise through it on the canal you wouldn...

 My MP James Sunderland (Con) and I don't exchanged mails all that often, but I do occasionally bother him about environmental issues.  ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an old couple in possession of a narrowboat must be in want of some friends to bump into now and...

Now where were we last time.  Aah yes, Coventry.  Well we had a pleasant run out of there and now we're up the Ashby canal- in fact we...

 I couldn't resist a headline like that.  Tonight we have some fresh fruit and creme fraiche in a basin in the Basin.  The trading boats...

Time was, when you were at Hawkesbury and suggested cruising down to Coventry basin, people would look at you as if you were mad or at least...

 Kath and I are 152 years old (in total of course).No surprise then that we're slowing down a bit. Our current cruise is now 5 days old ...

 Well who'd have thought it after yesterday.  Coming past Clifton cruisers boatyard, there was a hire boat across the canal and some eld...

 Here we are at the very spot at Hillmorton where Kath fell in the canal last year.  Strangely Kath opted not to deliver a repeat performanc...

  How lucky is Robbie Cummings*? He was just emerging from the front of his boat, the Naughty Lass as we passed him at the northern Braunsto...