DuchessOmnium - Island to Island

I fired up the engine, attached the tiller arm, and untied the bow rope at six o’clock, then, with my British Waterways key in hand, I strolled the few hundred yards up the tow path...   Read more

It’s raining hard. In fact, it has rained for some part of almost every day since a drought was officially declared last week in most of southern England and Wales. (Scotland is, as...   Read more

Saturday Long delayed winter has finally come, and the fire is the one chore I cannot neglect. Every few days I heave a 25 kg bag of coal from the roof, carry it the 62 ft length of the...   Read more

I arrived back on Pangolin on New Year’s Eve. I had only intended to be away for two or three days, but in the end I was gone a full week. Whenever I started to say it was time for me...   Read more

Way back last summer I started to blog about how I had a new mooring. “These days,” I wrote, “when the British Waterways inspector strides down the towpath in formal dark...   Read more

I have been away — that is, I have been away from England, from my boaty home, and from my own four foot wide, lumpy, boaty bed. I left in late March, when the crocuses had already...   Read more