Tag: Milton Keynes
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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…
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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…
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Parallel Parking and Stag Nights
We are now 100% living on the narrowboat. Really we already were fully living on it but now we don’t have a flat to go back to as our daughter is moved in with her grandparents and the flat is sold. This means we don’t have a back up shower or laundry facility for saving…
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Milton Keynes by Narrowboat
I last left you at Fenny Stratford which is the beginnings of the greater Milton Keynes area. We only had one day to move due to other commitments so we stopped off for water and headed north. There is one lock with a swing bridge at Fenny which is the last lock before you leave…
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Cruising to Fenny Stratford
We only had one day to move the boat as I had to go to London and collect Joey on his way home from university. This meant we couldn’t really go that far which was fine as we needed to stay in the area a bit longer. We started out from Stoke Hammond early on…
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Grand Union at Fenny Stratford
Fenny Stratford is now part of Bletchley which is part of Milton Keynes. Watling Street which was the old Roman road going north from London goes right through it. There is even buried remains of a Roman villa just as one drives into Fenny Stratford. Another interesting and useless bit of trivia: the village was…
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How I Try to Reduce Shopping Waste
Plastic-free July just ended. I don’t do anything special in the month as it feels a bit false for me. No idea why that is…I am an odd duck so it is just me. I do try to live more sustainably but I am not perfect and will not pretend to be. Today, I am…
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Stony Stratford to Cosgrove
Okay, not quite Stony Stratford. We started from the car park at Ouse Valley Park which isn’t really in Stony but it is only a hole, skip and a jump away. This one is a much shorter walk than I had hoped for but it is what happened. I chose the starting point and Alan…
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Up Cycle Route 6 and Down the Grand Union Canal
Last week we walked from Willen Lake to Great Linford on a circular route. This week we decided to continue on that route further and started off from the Linford Manor Park. We parked up at the Memorial Hall off of Marsh Drive in Great Linford. Now if you want to add the Milton Keynes…
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Milton Keynes City Walk
People seem to have a very poor image of Milton Keynes. I am often told that Milton Keynes is just concrete. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. We walked for just over 6 miles and it was all lovely and green. We started out from Willen Lake. The car park we used was across…
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