8th September 2016 Record breaking day today of 34 locks!!!! Whoa!!!! Below is the page from our Pearson’s guide that gives you some indication of what we tackled today. It has helped that we had fine weather and fresh lock slaves. It didn’t take long to get into a good routine with Pete assisting Fraser, … More Tardebigge Locks to Stock Wharf

7th September 2016 Oops, another addendum but to yesterday’s blog this time. The photo of the church in yesterday’s blog was of St Nicolas in Kings Norton. And what may you ask is the significance of this rather mundane looking church. Well, the Rev W. Awdry of Thomas the Tank Engine fame was a curate … More Kings Norton to top of Tardebigge Locks

6th September 2016 What we need to confess to is our overindulgence last night. The one saving grace is that we all shared it. Quite the catastrophe for the lining of our arteries. So cruisy start to the day as needed to let Peter and Nadine catch up on some lost zzz’s. Fed them breakfast … More Birmingham to Kings Norton

5th September 2016 Today it was fresh crew on board. Nadine and Peter from Canada came into Manchester this morning and then caught the train down to Birmingham to arrive at midday. This gave us a little opportunity prior to their arrival to tart up nb Lucy; do the bed shuffle and talk sternly to … More Birmingham and New Lock Slaves Loaded

4th September 2016 The gods were looking kindly upon us once again for our four hour trip into Birmingham today. After some catch up sleep after our long day yesterday we set the boat up for our guests for the day. Di and Toque were a little slow off the mark as you can see. … More Tipton to Birmingham

3rd September 2016 Magical day today even though it was pouring with rain to begin with. Our very good pommie mate Ian who is back in Canada comes from Tipton so we caught up with his mum, sister and brother-in-law today. Di had previously met his mum Doreen in Canada and spent a very pleasurable … More Tipton – Iron Bridge – Tipton

 2nd September 2016 Well, we obviously survived the night as we are back blogging. Awoke to a very overcast and drizzling day, just as the forecasters had predicted. We knew that only about 200 meters away was the 3027 yard long Netherton Tunnel so it was no hardship to cruise in the drizzle for a … More Netherton to Black Country Museum – Tipton

1st September 2016 Goodness, who can believe it that we are into our final month of being water gypsies. The bank account can but we are finding it rather hard to think that we have started our 14th week of 18 weeks. The mornings are starting to remind us that the seasons are changing as … More Kinver to Exciting Netherton

31st August 2016 Our aim was to go back to Kiddiminster so that we could do the Severn Valley Railway steam train. We had a bit of a time line to follow as there are not that many departures each day on the rail line so up early enough to see the mist and sun … More Stourport back to Kinver

30th August 2016 Misty morning, Reflections and visit to the seaside (?) Awoke early this morning (amazing but true) to a wonderful scene out the front of our bow of mist rising off the water ahead of us. Decided we would get going early as it was such a magical day. We were treated to … More Kinver to Stourport