• 15/02/11       Turn your blog into a printed book!

    • Well here I am three years after buying Zulu so what to do with the blog now that I am no longer the owner?   Well one option is to print it out as a hardback book; I have just discovered that for a fairly modest fee, your blog can be printed into a book online, [...]

  • 23/01/11       Sold

    • For all those boat owners wondering what the market is like at the moment – it seems pretty buoyant to me. I had intended to put Zulu on the market in the summer but last Friday I started to write an advert on Apolloduck – one thing led to another and I decided to test [...]

  • 13/01/11       Narrowboat for sale – Oh no its me!!!!!

    • Well what  a sad posting after over 6 months without blogging. But its true – daddy doesn’t seem to love me any more and he has just put me on Apollo Ducks narrowboat for sale section, filed under cruiser stern and Harborough. (Actually not true – I still do love Zulu but its become a [...]

  • 26/05/10       Catching up and spending too much

    • There’s not much happening on the Zulu front at present hence the silence.  Since Cavalcade at Little Venice I took Zulu back to her moorings in Uxbridge after work one night, travelling into the moonlight and arriving for a food stop at West Drayton at midnight, starving and freezing cold.  I pulled in to the seldom used [...]

  • 30/04/10       I name this boat Zulu Warrior!

    • Zulu is not one of the smartest looking boats on the cut, and like many older boats its a long time since a name of any sort was painted on the side. However when I bought Zulu, the previous owner presented me with ready made sticky backed names for the cabin sides.  I had more [...]

  • 29/04/10       Uxbridge to Little Venice

    • Monday and Tuesday 26/27th April 2010 Whilst the regulars have all desserted Little Venice, Zulu has deliberately made the journey into town, to be around and about during the IWA Cavalcade 2010. We set off from Uxbridge after treating the dogs to a bus – train – bus journey from Burghfield, near Reading to Uxbridge.  [...]

  • 13/04/10       Winkwell to Uxbridge – we finally made it!

    • Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th April Zulu is home! On 18th December, the day the Trent and Mersey reopened at Middlewich, we set off from Middlewich on a three week trip to our new moorings at Uxbridge.  Almost 4 months later we have finally arrived thanks to ice and stoppages along the way but it has been [...]

  • 13/04/10       Banks!

    • Well this isn’t boat related but it may save someone a few pounds, so let me mention my banking experience today. First Natwest, with whom I have held a business account for 10 years who have just told me.  “Sorry we can’t send that because we do not have your address on file.”  What?  After [...]

  • 09/04/10       Marsworth to Winkwell

    • Easter Monday 5th April 2010 Marsworth locks are one of my favourite flights in a beautiful setting alongside the reservoirs.  They are quite easy locks too, not too deep and in very good working order, so we made light work of them, meeting the first boats of the day at the top lock where a [...]

  • 09/04/10       Simpson to Marsworth

    • Easter Sunday 4th April 2010  Here we are in Marsworth then. Its been a great run today as I set off about 9am and got here about 7pm so the batteries are well topped up, but TV reception isn’t great here and 3G broadband is almost non existent, certainly on O2 and T-Mobile, so I [...]

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