Well we did it.  Never painted cabin sides outdoors before, but we're happy with the outcome. Of course it's only the two large dar...

Who is that old bugger painting coach lines on Herbie?  Oh, it's me.  Yes after a number of false promises and false starts we've ac...

  Here's Herbie hiding in the undergrowth about a mile from Banbury in readiness for our surprise attack tomorrow morning, determined to...

 It's raining today but yesterday was warm and sunny as we cruised out of Banbury, heading south. This part of the Oxford canal where al...

 Phew I'm cream crackered after traipsing round Banbury for a large part of the day,  It's good to be back here though as it's b...

 Never in all the 18 years we've had Herbie has she laid so long unused.  This year, things have conspired against us.  Every time we ma...

Hi everyone. Long time no post!  I'm back out to Herbie on Monday to start a big scary job.  A bit at a time I'm going to repaint He...

Rishi Sunak reckons we ought to have more apprenticeships and for once I agree with him. In fact we already agreed with him before he said i...

 Next weekend, (not the coming one) if all goes to plan we'll actually take Herbie out on the canal.  In all the 18 years we've had ...

Kath is a clever old stick.  Time was when she would complain that she couldn't draw or paint or indeed have any artistic talent. Well o...

 I'm glad to report that Herbie is still afloat - well you never know these days with all the weather we're having; there's a 40...

I think we're in the longest wet weather spell I can remember.  The table at the end of this post illustrates it well.  But first, the l...