Bunny

Thank you . Pity we will miss you in Scarisbrick, enjoy Saltisford . One of our favourite spots . Will be in there later on the year, loads of yellow cherry plums for jam . Bunny

Scarisbrick to Liverpool . Thank you Val for the advice .Bunny .

We are heading for the link ,booked for the 30 th . Have to leave our boat at Scarisbrick marina for the week before to go back south for work , returning again on the 27th . Where would be the least vulnerable places to over night on our way down ? . There are two boats travelling together. Thank you . Bunny .

Have a small dehumidifier also one of those window vacs , the windows collect the water and I hoover it off . Bunny.

Hospitex , it's used in hospital waiting rooms ect . 10 years now and no where near worn . Have it cleaned every 3 years or so as it's a mid blue colour . Made from recycled plastic bottles and even bleach proof . Bunny

Just come through from Stoke . Only 2 moorings left in town , rest already taken by trade boats . Some mooring above Kings Lock. Don't bank on being able to stop . Bunny .

Can get signal at the train station , I know it's not the pub , but if you miss catching up on the ' news ' it has at least got a shelter . Bunny .

I must admit that after spending 11 winters on various winter moorings and c.cruising one winter on the K and A we have now ' left home ' this coming winter and have booked private winter moorings on the southern Oxford . We usually finish or start our summer jaunts with a trip to Devises or Bath from Aldermaston area and have over the years enjoyed all our trips to the western end . Yes the locks are hard especially in the early spring when they haven't had the work or the grease , yes the swing bridges sometimes needs 2 or even 3 to move them and we just love watching the traffic back up when Aldermaston lift bridge gets stuck up . It's a canal you need to treat with respect and take your time . Yes it needs a bit of planning your mooring. The only reason we are wintering aaway is the very uncomfortable exit up the Thames this spring . We were held up for a good month and then went through a couple of reds on the Thames . So buy a gang plank stock up on pasta , tins, uht milk and rice and give yourself at least another there and back . Bunny

We are currently overnighting in Stone . Bow and stern sprung , as usual . Took our daughter up to the station , waved her off , walked back to find ropes loose , 3 pots on the roof fallen over ,one on the gas locker . Inside books had fallen out of the bookcase fruit on the floor , tins in the windows cupboard moved . Internal doors swung closed . Hire boat tied up at the bottom lock , going down . Driver kept looking back at us as we were wondering if we had been hit or just moved . Apparently the hire boat locked down later and proceeded to leave the lock on ' full boor' past the moored boats . Question answered . Re-tied , put books etc back . Just lucky our rabbit was tucked behind the chairs not in the way of flying books . Bunny

Did you have to book your passage through the link with Crt? Or do you just turn up at a set time and day ? Are you staying in Liverpool then going back or crossing the Mersey back to the ship canal? . Thanks Bunny

Sincere condolences. Thinking of you at this very sad time . I do hope you have friends in the area who can support you . Bunny .

We are coming up from The Trent heading for Stoke and could use fuel . Will keep an eye open . Thanks . Bunny .

Agree Betty , nice moorings above Days Lock , our old cat loved it there . Bunny

Salter steamers , on the Thames try to push in front . Almost ran us off the river a few years ago,we're trying to get us to heave too just before the lock , we were indicating that we wanted to stop above for water anyway . Husband walked up to the lock , asked to speak to the captain . Husband had a very quiet word , as not to cause a scene in front of his passengers ..... only to be told .... "best watch your mooring ropes tonight mate when your asleep, they tend to work themselves loose on the river " . Lockeeper confirmed that they do not have preferred rights of way . Bunny

2 of us . 3 weeks and a few days , 4 weeks if we want to go a bit too near the top of the tank . Tank size 340 ltrs. Mansfield vacuflush. Bunny

Maybe there is a lock keeper on duty in the morning ? . We came across one when we left the canal du Garrone to the River Garrone . Bunny

Had a potter up the drains after we came back from the Black Sluice, so dark and peaceful overnight . May go back down there next week , didn't go up/down the Maud Foster , but had a great time . Bunny.

Both trips through Boston Grand Sluice was on level water . We are 62 feet . Waited inthe lock going out , until the water was level . Coming back we waited by the wall , till the water was level . Someone did mention they thought we were the first boat onto the Black Sluice drain for 'the thick end of 2 and a half years '. Bunny

We have just locked up from the haven on the Witham at Boston after a little overnight trip down and up the Black Sluice drain . Can't recommend the lock keepers at both end highly enough . Really helpful and friendly . Nice little trip , hardly any current , bit of difficulty seeing the Black Sluice lock but the lockie ( Andy ) pointed us in the right area . Very quiet moorings at the wheat sheaf pub. If your in the area give the trip a go . Bunny .

Georges amazing spaces , featured one moored on the Avon near Bristol , being converted into a live aboard. Also another on the Bath end of the K and A . Bunny

There are bankside moorings above Mapledurham, near The African Queen , fees payable .No mooring at Whitchurch lock , as there is no access to bankside . Payable moorings in Henley , and a station . Could also turn up the K and A and Moor round by the old prison on visitor moorings ( don't know what length of stay is stated ), cctv there , near the station .Bunny

Thank you all for the info,links and advice , have anchor life jackets , ring , vhf Sissons ect and there are two of us travelling together. Cromwell and Torksey have been contacted and our arrangements are for 8 am tomorrow . I do hope this wind blows itself out by then. Now moored in Newark , nice castle . Thanks again Bunny .

Evening . Does anyone know where to find the times for the tidal trend leaving Cromwell tomorrow . Bunny

My brother and nephew live in Holland and are allowed to grow 10 plants each a year ' for personal use'. Which they do . But going back to the original post . Apart from this year , as we are away in most of July and all of august , we grow lettuce cucumbers courgettes ( yep can see over the leaves ... just ) dwarf beans carrots spring onions radish ( tomatoes in the cratch ) strawberries herbs . Loads of flowers . We are in may edition of waterways world page 20 . The letter is about google but an ok pic of the plants and boat Bunny

How about the wey navigation . Nice locks , interesting, pretty varied scenery . Farncombe boat house for hire boats near Godalming . Bunny.