Tag: canal art

Boat fixing , Canal , canal art , History & canals , Narrowboat , roving trader

Blobs in the right places aka canal art

by Kay June 26, 2018 18 Comments

Blobs in the right places – starting to paint It’s almost a year since I first attempted to put the blobs in the right places and paint something that resembled the traditional painted roses found on the old working canal boats. It was a miserable time as I had just failed the written upgrade of […]

Background to boat buying , Canal , Canal visit , Narrowboat

How not to buy a boat

by Kay February 1, 2018 10 Comments

Obsessive boat buying Having decided, on that fateful visit to Oundle Marina, to buy a narrowboat I became a woman possessed seeking a boat. This anxiety-driven-need had happened to me before. Previously in relation to buying flights (hence having travelled a ridiculous amount), houses (luckily I have managed to buy only two – not […]