Been a bit slack on the posting front in 2014. Only had time for a couple of brief adventures in th 2013-14 southern Summer. If you are into mountain biking Pureora looks like a great place for a multi day bike ride. View over the Whanganui River. Friday, 6 September 2013. Spring skiing on a volcano. Although it has been a mild winter, the arrival of spring was still eagerly anticipated. There are not many days in a season like this one. Fine, not a b.

Ive no doubt we will miss it for a while but we can now sit in the lounge and watch all the boaters doing the locks at Atherstone. Chi-Cheemaun is now for sale at Norbury Wharf . Tuesday, 15 March 2011. The end of our cruising years. Saturday, 25 December 2010.

Sunday, 10 April 2011. We have met a lot of interesting people over the last 11 years and have kept in touch with a lot of them, we know that we will miss the canals and the other boaters. We have travelled the length of the Manchester Ship Canal and have crossed the Mersey; the Thames from Limehouse to Teddington four times and have sp.

THE ADVENTURES OF NARROW BOAT SKYY. 70 now and our five wonderful years aboard our narrowboat Skyy seem along time ago. Jacquie, allowed me to build my replica three wheeler kit car, which was a great success. Saturday, 8 June 2013. Determined not to become bored I ordered the first part of a kit car, a replica of an old Morgan.

Wednesday, 25 July 2012. Three days of cruising down the Trent and Mersey in glorious sunshine. What a change in the weather.

Mike and Denise took early retirement in 2005 after working for 30 years in IT. We bought Densie in 2006 with the intention of taking long trips each year and eventually to visit all of the accessible canal system. This blog will describe our travels. Saturday, May 21, 2011. Because of the problems with using this Google provided service I have moved the blog to www. Friday, May 20, 2011. Apologies for the absence of a blog. Blogspot is still messed up.

The end of a era - a sad day for us, as Windsong has today become the property of a new owner. We enjoyed every second of designing her, watching the build take shape and then cruising in her for the last six and a half years. We had hoped it would be for longer, but sadly that has not been the case. Thank you Ally and Neil, for building an exceptional boat. And lastly, thank you to all our regular faithful readers who have put up with my ramblings and bad grammar for so long.

After 6 locks I reached the top - just as it started to drizzle. Debbie loves to walk and work locks so we made very good progress again. After 6 locks, at 11.