FIVE BEAN SOUP

26/09/2022

Stuffed Squash

I love autumn! I crave it with my soul so from the moment September rolled around I needed to make something that screamed fall. This is what I came up with and it was glorious. Things to remember….substitute ingredients as needed or to taste. This really was a throw it together and hope for the […]

19/09/2022

Final Push

Emily had gone home after a few days of birthday activities. Joey was on the boat to help me now until we reached Milton Keynes. Alan had to work so wasn’t with us for most of the end. We are at Cowroast and decending toward Milton Keynes. There are 24 locks and about 24 miles […]

12/09/2022

Rickmansworth to Hemel Hempstead

While Alan was working for a few days Emily joined me for cruising for two days before her birthday. Emily and I had a big day ahead of us and met both wonderful and grumpy people along the way. This was likely my most sociable day as we had people to share the locks all […]

05/09/2022

London to Rickmansworth

London. We have just come through Brentford Gauging Lock 100 and we are headed to Campbell Wharf Marina about 5 miles north of Fenny Stratford Lock 22. It is around about 58 miles and 78 locks between us and long term rest. In a car this distance would be a couple hours even ijn traffic. […]

29/08/2022

Cats Aboard

One thing that I most often hear from people about narrowboats is the astonishment that cats live aboard boats. Many boaters have cats! We of course have the best cat in the world but he is by and far not the only cat living the boatlife. Don’t they run away? Most common question! No, if […]

22/08/2022

Thames…The Journey Home

We left the Kennet and Avon on the Tuesday with an aim to get as far as we could manage before booking our use of the Thames Lock at Brentford. We were not sure how long we would need to get to Teddington. The first day started off pretty well. There was one tree that […]

15/08/2022

Stuck Again!

THe Kennet and Avon Canal has been a nightmare! First it was low water causing us to ground. Then they were closing the section we were in. We got through that after a head injury and got through the closures. We thought we were motoring. Then I break my wrist on lock 70. So surely […]

08/08/2022

Flower Walk

Nothing narrowboat about this really. I just had a lovely short walk in Devizes and found such beautiful flowers. I think it was the West Wessex Way at least for a short ways but mostly just a surprising little path between a spot in the middle of nowhere and an allotment. Enjoy the flowers. I […]

01/08/2022

Heads, Wrists, and Roasting to Death

I will not be getting into so much detail on the way home as it is almost all retracing our steps for a few weeks. It has been interesting and at times painful. Not a lot going to plan. We left Devizes on the 9th of July with an intention to be around Froxfield by […]

25/07/2022

MK24

So what the heck is MK24? It is a 24 hour race where you run as many laps of a quarter marathon distance as you can in 24 hours. Obviously that means that two laps is a half marathon, four is a full marathon, and anything above that is an ultra marathon distance. You can […]