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:...
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- Jul 29, 2014
- 1 min
CaCaPoMo: The Standedge Admiral
Marsden Moor, above the Standedge Tunnel – the kind of view Thomas Bourne saw day after day after day… (image from...
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- Jul 25, 2014
- 2 min
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...
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- Jul 25, 2014
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 25, 2014
- 1 min
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...
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- Jul 24, 2014
- 1 min
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...
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- Jun 11, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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- Jun 9, 2012
- 3 min
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 –...
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- Jun 7, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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- Jun 4, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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- Jun 2, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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- May 30, 2012
- 2 min
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...
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