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Lifeboat

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Check out my next door neighbour:

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And I'm back!

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Well it's been a long time. I guess I must have been too busy enjoying myself to post about it. Something like that anyway Image reduced in size

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The stove has finally arrived!

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When it looks like this outside you really want a stove:
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So, meticulous planner that I am, I ordered one in plenty of time and before it started to snow. Last december in fact.

I opted for a 'boatman' stove, as made by Eddie from northern fabrications...

Some bloke on the towpath just went mental at me

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Some bloke outside started shouting at the boat so I popped my head out the front doors (in nothing but a dressing gown) to see what's up.

He's tripped over my mooring pin and aparently I'm a thoughtless bastard. Rage building he starts to steam at the ears, egged on by my initial response of "have you not got a torch?". He...

I must be getting good at this.

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I just fixed my engine, all by myself.

It suddenly stopped working this morning. I'd had it on, turned it off and been unable to start it up again.

I dutifully checked that fuel was getting through (it was), checked the oil, checked the air filter and then bingo! I checked the fuses mounted on the engine. One of them was blown and...

Batteries for the clueless (FAQ part 1)

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Given that I've learnt an awful lot form the kind folks at canal world, I thought I'd give something back. That something is a collection of articles detailing basic level information about a wide variety of narrowboat related topics. Now I could have picked something less contentious than batteries, lets say choice of toilet, but I...

Some photos of bristol harbour

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Lovely place bristol harbour. A bit pricey, but lovely nonetheless. I think I'm going to try for a winter mooring there next year.

Funky bridge near temple meads train station:
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Loads of people rowing boats:
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World war 2 landing barges that never left for france, with bristol castle in the background:
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Shit creek

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Well, river.

Me and the little one came back at the weekend to find this:

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Urgh. I just spent an hour cleaning off one side and to add insult to injury one of the offending herons tried to shit on me when I left. Bastards.

Broken down in Bristol

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Something fun happened yesterday. Something rather fun indeed. The engine cut out on me as I was cruising about bristol harbour, about half way from either side. "That's a new one" I thought, before turning the engine back on. I got about another two seconds and it died again.

Shit.

Now what?

A frantic bout of two second...

Rethinking the stove

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Ok, I'm not the most decisive person in the world but this is getting ridiculous. I'm now looking at a bigger stove mounted more centrally in the boat.

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