Bridge Girl
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »I initially heard about this on CWF, and then, later on, on TV. The BBC says... A 15-year-old girl has had both her legs amputated after they became trapped in a swing bridge she was sitting on in Greater Manchester. Jade Smethurst, ...
Auction
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Just what are BW playing at? They have postponed the auction once already, and now, according to the Go Industry website, it has been delayed further. "THIS SALE HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND DUE TO CLOSE ON THURSDAY, 31ST JULY. LOTS WILL ...
Anderton Rally
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Whilst visiting Middlewich last weekend for the Folk & Boat Fesitval, I walked passed the IWA stand and was passed a leaflet advertising a Canal and River Festival at Anderton Nature Park on the 21st and 22nd June. I did ...
Lister SR3
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in General | 5 Comments »A friend of mine is looking to replace his current Lister SR2 engine with a Lister SR3. When he bought the 45ft narrowboat it had an SR3 installed but a year or so ago, when coming back from a trip it ...
The Festival
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »I have just got back home after visiting Middlewich to check out the Boat and Folk Fesitval. Although I didn't get to see much of what was going on in town, which was my own choice, I did walk from ...
Links
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Today the linking system within the website has been changed. You may not have noticed, but before the naming convention of the links didn't really have any relevance, and also, more importantly, they weren't very search engine friendly. The names ...
Picture Gallery
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Some more albums have been added into the Gallery this evening. At last! It's been a right pain trying to get it to work just as I wanted it to, which involved chopping the code to bits, but it's finally ...
Camera
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »I thought I'd finally treat myself to a new camera. You get sick of trying to take pictures using a mobile phone, and the quality is usually very poor anyway. It's a Fuji FinePix S5700 and although a modest peice of ...
Middlewich Boat Festival
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in General | 3 Comments »So who's going then? The original plan was for us to move the boat towards Middlewich during the week after work, eventually arriving there on either Thursday or Friday evening. Those plans have been scuppered now, due to the problems ...
Software Update
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »I've delayed adding new content to the site recently as I was putting off updating the software, until now. I'm pleased to say the new version is up and running which should do me for a while. I have done a ...
Towing Job
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Today I accomplished one of those jobs that I had been meaning to do for a long time, that is, to slow down the tick over speed of the Perkins D3 engine. Since we bought the boat, back in 2005, ...
Happy Birthday Liam!
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »May is the best month of the year, as not only does it have two bank holidays but my birthday is on May 2nd. I found myself down at the moorings, as usual, earlier on Friday after finishing work. I ...
The Stove
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »We finally have the Boatman Stove installed! After cocking the dates up on our part, we eventually managed to get the boat down to Eddies workshop on Sunday. It didn't take as long as I originally thought but due to the ...
Strawberry Island
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »The Cruising Club I am a member of had arranged a coach trip up to Strawberry Island Boat Club for the day, which started off at 10am and finish finish until 3am! We arrived shortly after noon and were directed into ...
Back Home
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »We took a trip over to the Dry Dock first thing but when I arrived the surveyor was already in the middle of doing the complete hull survey for insurance purposes. I enjoyed a cup of tea and a quick ...
