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Narrowboat Balmaha – Burland to Ellesmere
Saturday 18th to Sunday 26th February 2012.I’m afraid we have to report that we cheated. Not content to work our way slowly along the Llangollen Canal by boat we jumped in a car and motored up to the...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Ellesmere to Queens Head (Montgomery Canal)
Monday 27th February to Sunday 4th March 2012.Last thing on Sunday we took a ramble over the hill, through the woods to Ellesmere mere. We managed to place our coffee order 30 minutes after closing...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Queens Head (Montgomery Canal) to Ellesmere.
Monday 5th to Sunday 11th March 2012.An empty pound below us at Aston Locks gave us an opportunity to visit the nearby town of Oswestry on Monday.It was a 20 minute bus journey with the entertainment...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Ellesmere to Burland.
Monday 12th to Sunday 18th March 2012.From Ellesmere on the Llangollen we chugged down to the end of the Prees branch to Whixall Marina for all kinds of fuel. Gas was £21.90, the best we’ve seen for a...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Burland (Llangollen) to Audlem (Shroppie)
Monday 19th to Sunday 25th March 2012.And we’re off. That is, we’re off the Llangollen Canal. There’s space for you if you hurry and just like wasps the billions of hireboats are flexing their tillers...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Audlem to Market Drayton
Monday 26th March to Sunday April 1st 2012.Sunday night, back at the boat we tasted the chocolate cake that Jaq had packed for us when we left them. And what a cake!! Amazing taste and texture, now I...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Market Drayton to Gnosall
Monday 2nd to Monday 9th April 2012.A series of social events leave us lost for time and words, so in summary:-People– Kass, Joe and Wriggles (IT), Mike and Jo (nb.Sarah-Kate), Bob and June (nb.Autumn...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Gnosall to Brewood
Tuesday 10th to Sunday 15th April 2012.Tuesday - caught the pensioner’s bus to Stafford this morning for a look around. Being the first working day of the new tax year there were queues at the banks...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Brewood to Gothersley
Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd April 2012.I’m not saying we rush our cruising or compete for bridge holes but this week we’ve enjoyed a rather sedate wandering to the end of the Shroppie and onto the...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Gothersley to Wolverley
Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th April 2012.This week we mostly pottered along and, being in no particular hurry, we left the Staffs & Worcs canal to pay a visit to the Stourbridge Canal and its ‘Arm’....
View ArticleNarrowboat Balmaha – Wolverley to Upton upon Severn
Monday 30th April to Sunday 6th May 2012.Sorry, we are having fun at Upton on Severn at a folk festival, in the street, in the sun, yes in the sun!More later......Comments
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Wolverley to Upton on Severn
Monday 30th April to Sunday 6th May 2012.This week produced our first cuckoo of the year and a flock of swallows. Obviously they don’t mind the rain. The week started cool and dismal and turned into...
View ArticleNarrowboat Balmaha – Upton on Severn to Gloucester Docks
Monday 7th to Monday 14th May 2012.We have arrived at Gloucester.The Blog is in progress but shan't finish it today.Where does all the time go? Comments
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Upton on Severn to Gloucester Docks
Monday 7th to Sunday 13th May 2012 [At last]Monday - Upton on Severn The rain on the hills takes a couple of days to drain off into the Severn, so they said. Although Diglis and Gloucester locks are no...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Gloucester Docks to Saul Junction
Monday 14th to Saturday 19th May 2012.It feels like we’ve come home. We used to live about 30 miles from here and the accent is very easy on the ears, probably too easy because we keep catching...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Saul Junction to Gloucs Docks
Week ending 27th May 2012.Take a rusty steel garage door, open and shut it a few hundred times, that’s what the seagulls sound like in Gloucester. For a couple of days I thought it was people coming...
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Jubilee Fortnight
It's a boy !! and his name is Gladys !!No, not really, we're still waiting for the timer to ding and the oven to produce a bun.There's no baby to see at this moment in time but it is overdue so it...
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Post Jubilee
Saturday 9th June 2012It’s a girl (!!) Bethan May arrived 6.38am this morning making V and me a very happy grandmother.Well done Kass and Joe, try to catch up on sleep tonight (no chance!) and remember...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Weekending 16th June 2012
Gloucester & Sharpness CanalAll’s well on the baby front. Bethan isn’t a screamer, the milk bar opened on time, the nappies and knitted cardigans fitted and Mothercare is doing a roaring...
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Narrowboat Balmaha – Gloucester to Splatt Bridge
Weekending Sunday 24th June 2012Ever seen a cormorant swallow an eel? I watched one surface after a dive and wrestle a two foot eel before sending it head-first down its throat. But that wasn’t the end...
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