Don’t mention the pandemic….. It’s impossible to start my first post of 2021 without mentioning the unending roller-coaster of living through a global pandemic. We are still going through this worldwide virus and who knows when we will emerge? So, here’s a tale that weaves around an old Wedgwood teapot, dark histories and the Pea […]
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 […]