Apr 9, 20151 min read

NaPoWriMo 2015.6: Allegiance

Folly Footbridge – as mentioned in my ‘aubade’ (morning poem). Image googled, from www.kennet-avon-canal.co.uk NaPoWriMo catch-up…and...

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Jan 22, 20154 min read

The Way Something Is or Happens

This slideshow requires JavaScript. This morning, I walked to Dundas Aqueduct and noticed – as I walked down and under the structure –...

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Jul 24, 20141 min read

Caleb’s Canal Poetry Month (CaCaPoMo)

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...

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Apr 17, 20142 min read

NaPoWriMo 2.14: Questions To The Huddersfield Broad Canal Fishing Lady

But is she among them…? It’s a catch up day again – I’m finding that poetry gathering- and writing-binges are how I’m doing NaPoWriMo...

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Jul 11, 20132 min read

Pirates

Last Saturday, I went on a workshop with the Canal Laureate, Jo Bell, about whom you can read more here. We spent some time talking about...

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Jun 11, 20122 min read

Dry days – a pause outside Oxford

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

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Jun 9, 20123 min read

Current Affairs or, Matching Regatta Cagools – Theale to Pangbourne

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 –...

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Jun 7, 20122 min read

A Lock is Like a Box of Chocs

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...

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