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CaCaPoMo: “My Boat Won’t Bend”
Rant away, sir! Here’s something inspired by the end of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and an encounter with another boater. An admission:...
Aug 5, 20142 min read


CaCaPoMo: The Standedge Admiral
Marsden Moor, above the Standedge Tunnel – the kind of view Thomas Bourne saw day after day after day… (image from...
Jul 29, 20141 min read


CaCaPoMo: The Blarney Played a Vital Rood
Thank goodness for those extra CRT lights… Having arrived at Standedge Tunnel on Tuesday night, we were thwarted in getting through on...
Jul 25, 20142 min read


CaCaPoMo: By-Law
People defying By-Law 41 (image via the Examiner). On Tuesday, we travelled up through locks 9 to lock 42 (yes, a lot of locks) on the...
Jul 25, 20141 min read


CaCaPoMo: Leaving Through Lock 4E
Huddersfield Narrow Canal Lock 4E (image from geograph.org.uk) A bit of catch-up from the journey and its poems so far. Here’s a poem...
Jul 25, 20141 min read


Caleb’s Canal Poetry Month (CaCaPoMo)
Our route from North to West For the next month, we are on the move aboard Reenie again headed back towards Bristol…Where I am starting a...
Jul 24, 20141 min read
Dry days – a pause outside Oxford
We finally got off the Chartered Thames yesterday – I kept calling it that, from a William Blake poem I remembered – ‘London’. I couldn’t...
Jun 11, 20122 min read
Current Affairs or, Matching Regatta Cagools – Theale to Pangbourne
There have been a couple of slalom hairy moments over the last few days. Reenie’s not really cut out for water flowing faster than –...
Jun 9, 20123 min read
A Lock is Like a Box of Chocs
Today, we went through lock number 100 – and we started, when we left Bristol, through Hanham Lock, No. 1. So that’s a lorra lorra locks...
Jun 7, 20122 min read


A-bunting we won’t go…
Having returned somewhat fuzzily from a wedding do on Saturday night (in Bristol), we made a little bit of progress – both along the...
Jun 4, 20122 min read
10% Lock Advance
We took on and won Caen Hill Locks yesterday – which was a marathon 35 in total. Once we got a system going though, draining the next one...
Jun 2, 20122 min read
Thanks for the culvert, Ma’am
I’ll be blogging under the tag ‘Reenie’s Progress’ for our imminent journey to The North – Leeds, to be precise. It’s going to be a slow...
May 30, 20122 min read
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