Never had a blog before, so thought I'd better start one. And what better subject matter than the progress of our work on our narrowboat.

INTRODUCTION

Most Game is a 65ft ex-hire Black Prince narrowboat, all steel with cruiser stern. We bought her at Sawley Marina in April 2007 and after several weeks of "work" done on her by a marine engineering company there, we moved aboard on Monday 11th June to begin the 9 day journey back to Warwickshire.

The journey was fraught with everything that could possibly be thrown at us: scorching hot sun, thunder and lightning, torrential rain, thick fog, running aground, damaged locks that don't move... you name it! But we were just happy to be aboard...

We finally arrived in Warwick in time for me to go into hospital to have some wisdom teeth removed... followed just a week or two later by Kev being hurt in a hit-and-run accident and going to hospital himself! While the world around us seemed to be suffering floods of biblical proportions, were were safely moored up on the canal within spitting distance of the hospital, unaware of what was going on everwhere else!

But with wounds healed, and gummy sockets in gnashable condition, we feel like we've finally started our life aboard and can start cruising the system.

There's lots to do on the boat - both cosmetically and the usual teething troubles one expects on a project like this.

This is just the beginning...