“Many people do indeed experience this realm of phantasy as ‘perilous’. Thresholds always are. Why else would Angels say, ‘fear not’,...

Here’s a poem I wrote for a Teach First poetry slam we held yesterday – mine didn’t end up being performed (although the poem which did...

We finally got off the Chartered Thames yesterday – I kept calling it that, from a William Blake poem I remembered – ‘London’. I couldn’t...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

I was just reminded of this lovely site, where you can enter a body of text and it creates a beautiful word cloud image… So I created my...