Food conundrums Food, or rather locating shops to buy it, always looms large when I am out on the cut. This is weirdly true of trying to purchase natural yoghurt. This ongoing food-buying anxiety was ever present on my long summer boat trundle. Summer 2019 saw me and Montefiore – Montague (aka Monte-Moo the Boat Cat) heading towards Oxford […]
Mild winter The first part of winter 2018-2019 has been unseasonably mild in Northamptonshire. The canal and marina have hardly frozen, unlike the winter of 2017-18 when it was frozen hard early in December. I have been out both walking and on Pea Green. Monte the Cat and I headed out of the marina on […]
Summer is over…. Apologies for the delay in sharing the final part of my summer adventure on Pea Green with Monte. A wonky depressed head has been a bit debilitating in recent weeks. ‘Normal’ service – whatever that is – is gradually being restored. Leaving the Ashby Having waved goodbye to the Ashby canal Pea […]
Heading back By mid-August Pea Green was turned around, having reached the end of the Ashby, and bobbing back along the canal towards Sutton Wharf and the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre. First stop on my return journey was Shackerstone. There, I moored up for the night opposite a marvellous tree-topped motte. Instead of inspecting the […]
The mythical Ashby It seems that Autumn has arrived in the last few days. There is still a bit of summer to come as I share the rest of Pea Green’s adventures. My plan to head up the Ashby Canal looked in jeopardy after Monte’s swim and a weekend of trading. I decided to check […]
Canal journey ahead After the Rugby bus incident, I was keen to continue my canal journey towards the Ashby, and away from the construction work close to bridge 66. This would include navigating a tunnel, swing-bridge and a lock. My first day out of Rugby I didn’t go very far, mooring close to the ‘All […]
Bus challenge looming From Braunston Pea Green’s summer narrowboat journey continued to Rugby. All new territory for me, though I am sure Pea Green has been to these spots before. Little did I realise that the challenge ahead was more to do with buses than boats. Leaving Braunston On yet another hot and sunny morning, […]
Two big challenges Finding a marina was probably the most pressing issue I faced, having bought the one and only boat I viewed. The second problem was moving her. (I still find it odd to refer to a generally inanimate object as ‘her’. This was especially true of my boat because she had a decidedly […]