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Coming of the Dawn Milky white water makes for a ghostly picture. Sometimes it pays to be woken by a Cockerel!!! Although my idea of g...

I can assure you that no harm came to this fish while taking the photo. I even let him have the maggot. What did I say about only catchin...

Lock 59 having the new gates installed Old lock gates So glad that there are two sets of locks on most of the flight. Heartbreak Hi...

Maybe you have already seen your first open Daffodil but these were my first of the year. We had just reached the Hall Green Lock when I saw...

Would you believe it, Jade found a ball at the very top of the Cloud. She loved her walk and like most dogs travelled much further then Ia...

So.....Ian made it. Took him an hour to walk from our boat to the top. As he climbed up the north face he encountered what he can only des...

As we descended Bosley Locks Ian announced that he would like to climb "Cloud". Its over a 1000ft high and has ancient earthwork...

Its not just tits that like fat balls!!!!!!

There were so many males persuing this duck that she must have felt our boat was a safe haven. It was only a short respite because the ...

Ive seen several ducks with a "beehive" topknot. I wonder what sort these are?

Speaks for itself!!!

Yesterday our batteries were returned to us. Apparently 2 of the batteries were completely flat, and the other two were showing only a parti...

Judy is having a bad time of it at the moment. We are still at Bugsworth awaiting results on our four leisure batteries. We bought them ne...

Whaley Bridge was impossible to moor in. As we went past Tesco there was boat after boat, and it then became clear that these were permit h...

This turnover bridge was at the junction of the Maccelsfield and Peak forest canal. We decided to turn left and head for Whaley bridge. And...

Wow, what was that? Cruising along and admiring the views I suddenly saw something in the distance to make me sit up and take note. I put th...

At first I wondered what possessed this boat owner to do this to his boat. Then Ian pointed out they were porthole covers. Pretty unique, I...

Today I woke early. Well early for me that is. At 7 10am I decided to get up and take our woofits out. Jade was eager to go as always but J...

Good weather to come, I hope. This picture was taken at our moorings by Ramsdell Hall.

As I don't often get to be in my posts I thought I would put a couple in. After all I might forget what I looked like. Had to get a p...