Useful Links
- Canal Journey Planner Nick’s Canal Route Planner
- Martyn King Sgin writer
- Mercia Marina Location– On the peaceful and tranquil Trent and Mersey Canal
- Narrowboat Baker
- New & Used Boats New & Used narrowboats, widebeams & Dutch Barges for sale
- Rob Shone Narrowboat Joinery
- Sally Tooze/Boat Painter Re-painted Foxglove
Blogs We Follow
- Hadar Working narrowboat built by Roger Fuller
- Marpessa 2 Follow Nick & Emma on our previous narrowboat MARPESSA 2
- Narrowboat One thing after another A diary about two lads and Eddie the dog who are fitting out, travelling, and generally enjoying life aboard their narrowboat.
- Parisien Star Australians living their dream of a year as liveaboards on a narrowboat
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Recent Posts
- Familiar Sights 15/03/2015
- Where did they all come from? 14/03/2015
- Day of rest…or so we thought! 13/03/2015
- On Top of the World 12/03/2015
- Every Little Helps 11/03/2015
- Happy Birthday – Wish (7 Today!) 10/03/2015
- Gone are the days of high heels!! 09/03/2015
- Just A Walking In The Rain (Whistle) 08/03/2015
- Tap To Snooze 07/03/2015
- Llangollen – Here we come! 06/03/2015
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Category Archives: Foxglove
Love is in the Air
Nigel (the boat mover) has fallen in love!…………Who with??? No! What with??? is the correct question. – He has fallen in love with our boat. He has moored up tonight outside Tesco’s at Rickmansworth (very handy for the shopping). As … Continue reading
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Special Present from a Special Little Lady
What a lovely thought and such a special gift we recevived today. Roy and I were given a key cover for each of ourselves for the boat. We were given these by a special young lady called Lucy. Lucy is only … Continue reading
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Day 2 of the Boat Move
What an exciting day today. Nigel ( the boat mover) has been fabulous and kept us up to date with his progress with pictures, texts and videos. I love the sound of the engine. I received the texts while I was … Continue reading
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Day 1 of the Boat move
Been worried to death all day wondering how everything went with the boat move. Roy and I both waited until we were home together so we could phone Nigel (The boat mover). I asked Nigel how he was and he replied … Continue reading
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The Night Before Christmas
That is how it feels like tonight, like the night before Christmas. For those who know me they will tell you I cannot hide my feelings so as you can imagine tonight I am so, so, so excited. Why? you … Continue reading
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Man Flu
Roy has just asked me if that is an appropriate subject to talk about, well I think it is as he has had man flu all weekend and so we were not able to go try out toilets. I am … Continue reading
Are you sitting comfortably?
This is a question Roy and I will be asking each other today as we are going to be buying a new toilet for “Foxglove”. Yes that is the name of our new boat that we have now owned for … Continue reading
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Learnt a new language
Learnt a new language tonight, the language according to Clare! Unfortunately the boat mover has had to cancel due to a leg injury and so we are now on plan E as plan A,B,C and D have all gone wrong. … Continue reading
So Long, Farewell….
No that isn’t the start of a Julie Andrews song from the “Sound of Music” it is just me saying goodbye to Nick & Emma who bought our boat “Marpessa 2”.They are off on their adventure in the morning cruising … Continue reading
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Got myself a date!
“I thought you were married” most people will be thinking if they have just read the title to this post, well I am. Just celebrated 21 years! Anyway, for all those whose minds think differently I have got myself a … Continue reading
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