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 trip continues With Monte back onboard Pea Green has continued her summer adventures, heading for Braunston and a marvellous sunny weekend of trading. Along the way I have met some lovely people, including a customer from Norfolk Island in the South Pacific who bought a teapot! (I am going to claim teapot visitation rights…..) […]
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 […]
I am a trickster! Having set you up for a photo-DIY-before-and-after post this week I am going to disappoint you! Last weekend I spent three days trading, for the first time, from Pea Green. As my memory is so poor, I thought I had better write about it now, rather than waiting. Bank Holiday jinx […]
Cat, gin and falling in The past couple of weeks have been busy preparing for trading from Pea Green. Though with my sloe gin ending up at the bottom of the marina and the cat making a run for it, life at Pea Green hasn’t been without mishap! Trading licence is here A few weeks […]