Rant away, sir! Here’s something inspired by the end of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and an encounter with another boater. An admission:...

Marsden Moor, above the Standedge Tunnel – the kind of view Thomas Bourne saw day after day after day… (image from...

Thank goodness for those extra CRT lights… Having arrived at Standedge Tunnel on Tuesday night, we were thwarted in getting through on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Having returned somewhat fuzzily from a wedding do on Saturday night (in Bristol), we made a little bit of progress – both along the...

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...