• 14/03/10       Braunston to Weedon

    • Sunday 14th March 2010
    Hi from Weedon.  Buckby locks were definitely open and the trip from Braunston was very nice - a bit breezy at times but the weather has been very spring like today so no complaints there.
    The Braunston tunnel cutting repairs are very extensive, with a new concrete wall where the landslip had occurred, [...]

  • 13/03/10       Braunston - Chinese at the Wheatsheaf

    • Now let me share a much happier experience. I have just had a most fantastic chinese takeaway from the Grace Chinese takeaway (and eat in) which is run independently of, but within, the Wheatsheaf pub.  I had a good pint while waiting too.
    There’s no sign outside, and orders are placed at a sort of sideboard [...]

  • 11/03/10       Stoke Bruerne - Google Streetview style

    • Thursday 11th March 2010
    Braunston Tunnel should be opening today and Zulu was supposed to be on the move tomorrow but I just heard that yet another stoppage has been extended, this time Buckby Locks, which will not now be open until mid-day on Monday, so although we can get through Braunston Tunnel as of today (can anyone confirm that [...]

  • 11/03/10       Links

    • Today I have at long last updated my rather poor list of other canal blogs, from 3 to 165 give or take a few.
    So if I have in any way missed your own site, or made any sort of error with your own link, don’t hesitate to get in touch and I will fix it [...]

  • 09/03/10       The long way home

    • Monday 8th March 2010
    There’s still no bus service from Braunston on a Sunday so I had to wait until Monday morning before heading home.  It didn’t help a lot when I woke after 7am, as I was intending to get the 07:34 bus to Rugby and then train home.  But at what price?
    (Another train fare [...]

  • 07/03/10       Fosse Locks to Braunston

    • Sunday 7th March 2010
    Another cold start to the day. This time minus 9.5 and enough to freeze the canal yet again.   I certainly broke some miles of ice today!
    Not much to say about the journey though, as it all went like clockwork.  I started very early and arrived at Long Itchington about 9am, just in time to [...]

  • 06/03/10       Tom O’the Wood to Fosse Locks. Water everywhere!

    • Saturday 6th March 2010
    Zulu started first time this morning.  That is the good news.
    The rest of the day has been very watery indeed.  I needed an early start to get through Hatton so 6:30 am it was.  Beautiful chilly morning with a lovely blue sky.
    Wateryness Number 1.
    By the time I got to Shrewley tunnel [...]

  • 05/03/10       Flat batteries at Lapworth

    • Friday 5th March 2010
    Ah well it had to happen sooner or later.  After 10 days at Lapworth Zulu has consumed every last bit of battery power and I really can’t work out why, as the isolator was off leaving only the bilge pump to drain them.  The starter battery is also isolated from the cabin [...]

  • 04/03/10       Hatton here I come!

    • I have recently been praising the power of blogging as a means of on the spot reporting, and thanks to another blogger I can rest easy that Zulu is still safely moored at Kingswood Junction having seen her photographed by John on Epiphany on Monday morning.  “On the left, a fellow bloggers boat” -  that’s [...]

  • 03/03/10       Have you chosen Internet Explorer as your browser?

    • Well I feel sorry for those of you who say “What’s a browser?” or “What is internet explorer?”  I suspect a huge number of people will be saying just that this week.
    Microsoft have just implemented the patch to beat all patches.  It’s job - to satisfy the EU Regulators that users of Windows have had [...]

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