Many apologies for the lack of blogs in 2017. We had a disturbed year from a personal and health point of view, but managed to attend all the planned events and festivals, although we did not get as far south as we had originally intended. Those of you that are on Facebook would have keep…

We are on the move for the year, but only in Enchanted Moon! This trip is down to Calcutt for painting the outside of the boat. So we are looking at 4 weeks of hard labour!! Once finished we will be hot footing it back, by road, to Hawn Basin to take The Glas Barge…

Our summer season is gradually drawing to a close and we are heading back to Birmingham for a Floating Market on 23rd to 25th September. Hopefully the weather will be nice to us that weekend and bring lots of people onto the canal. Today we are in Braunston and have been trading yesterday and today.…

Since leaving the market at Paddington we have been making our way slowly back up the Grand Union Canal. We have stopped to trade on the way at Rickmansworth, Apsley, Berkhamsted, Marsworth, Linslade, Milton Keynes, Stoke Bruerne and Blisworth. We have had all sorts of weather, from scortching hot to torrential rain and high winds,…

We are out again cruising and selling on the canals, but this time the weather has been glorious sunshine, so far, although, at this very moment, we are having  a summer downpour! We traded in Birmingham last weekend and are now on the Grand Union at Long Itchington, outside The Two Boats pub (actually we personally are inside keeping dry and having…

It was good to be in the company of other traders for a while in Paddington. With about 12 boats all together it gave a good feel to the event and there were also food stalls on the bank at the wekend. We understand that this was the first occasion that boats had been in…

This years cruise started at the end of April. We had hped to get out earlier than that, but having decided to sell our house in Eastbourne, we needed to get that settled before leaving the basin. Completion on the house was 30th March, which was what we had hoped for, but not expected to…

It has been a very busy winter for us this year. It started with blacking the bottom of Enchanted moon. While on the slipway and under cover we stripped and repainted the roof as well, so it was a hard weeks work. We had help from friends for the first few days, which made a hard dirty…

We finished our summer cruise at the Black Country Boating Festival at Windmill End, Netherton. It was a very busy few days and the sun stayed out most of the time. Friends came to join us the weekend before, to help us through the single locks into Birmingham and back to Hawne Basin. In the…