A small little jaunt

Hi all 

Decided to take the boat our from the marina for a couple of days as the weather was fine and looks good for the next few days we headed to Worcester then took a sharp right onto the Worcester and Birmingham canal, where in the lock there was a band playing the blues on their narrowboat , quite good as well,we then carried on up the canal with a few locks on the way, when passing the rugby ground we found that there was very little watermIn the canal but luckily we were able to just scrape up the canal until we got to the next lock where the water level got a little higher.

We then carried on to a little village called Tiberton, where we moored had a pint in the local  water hole "The Bridge" and went back to the boat had some food and watched telly , see you tomorrow 

What a few days

 A few thing has happened in the last few days, first we went and bought a couple of more cupboards to use a storage in the bedroom, all was going well I made up the cupboards then went to mount them on the walls when the marine chippy came around and asked if I was having problems with my electrics, " no " I said then realised that none of our sockets were working and my trip switch on the main electric board kept going off, after trying different sockets on the pontoon and then changing the marina  electric fuses I then thought that I check where the cables were going on the boat, Yes you guessed it I had drilled through a cable whilst putting up brackets for the cupboards so took out the screw from the cable and lucky the electric came back on the night.

Next morning a trip to B&Q again to buy bits to repair the cable which I did after digging a big hole in the wall to find the cable , so cable repaired and wall cupboards all hung.

Saturday morning we decided to take the boat for a spin so we took a trip to Tewkesbury which was very pleasant 

 

Whilst on the River. Severn we went under part of the M50 , when ever we have driven over this we always are on the lookouts for Narrow boats which are either going up or down the river, so now we can say we have gone under this bridge 

Part of the bridge that not many people see the underneath.

We carried on to Tewkesbury where we moored up just outside of the lock which is the entrance for the River Avon , we spoke the lock keeper and he could remember for the family our first boat which we all hired the Gay Goblin , which for obviously PC reasons has been changed to just the Goblin.

We then had a shandy and a turkey baguette in " The Hop Pole " which has now been turned into a wetherspoons  pub .

This poor boat didn't moor up very well.

We then returned back to "Essendee " and proceeded to return to Upton on Severn, half way up we came across a narrowboat "Bumble Bee"which had broken down so we offered to tow them back to the marina we started to tie them up to our boat but then a rescue boat came to there assistance so we left them and returned to our mooring.

In the evening we went and had a few beers in Upton and listened to a very good Ac/Dc tribute band and the returned to Essendee and bed .

Trip to Ikea

Today we  got up quiet early had breakfast and then headed to Ikea Walsall, when. We designed the layout of the boat we wanted a  minimal look, unfortunately we didn't take it to account where to  store everything, so hence the trip to Ikea which I must say has some brilliant space saving ideas ,We saw a couple of cupboard s that will fit under the gunwales but was sure about the sizes so left them for another day, we then paid avisit to B&Q bought a kitchen cupboard , went back to the boat and installed it.. 

Marina life

Hi, stuck in the marina today as weather not that good, torrential rain forecasted all day, we paid our mooring fees for this month we were going to pay for only two weeks but it turned out cheaper to pay for the month. We then went to Malvern to do a bit of food shopping and also pay a visit to B&Q which we did, then came back and put up a shelf and cooked a nice beef dinner, as I said the weather has been poor all day so not a lot to write about. Can't wait to start travelling again, Warren the engineer is suppose to turning up on Wednesday to fit  a few cables to the engine and sort a few problems out.

Even though its raining it still warm . Speak to you soon 

Back in Upton on Severm

Back in the marina, boat is as we left it,cats are settling in again, the only thing the weather has changed and its  raining , haven't done much today just played on the Xbox and watched tv , though for some reason the tv arial is playing up,and can't get all channels at the moment. As said before Upon is a lovely place 

  http://www.upton.uk.net/ so check out the web page to side what it has to offer , we are more than likely going to stay here for a couple of weeks , especially as the Marina party is on Saturday night, so parteeeeeeeeee speak to you soon ....

Start of our adventures part two

Again apologies for not keeping this blog up to date for the last few weeks , but our life has been hectic, with moving from our old house and in to our new maisonette . 

Can not say it been the easiest of moves with the solicitors being a real pain in the ar*e but we are now sort of settled into our new property and tomorrow we are off to the boat, so our adventure will start again so please keep reading our blog. See you tomorrow 

Home

Sorry for not keep up on this blog, we are now back home in sunny Caerphilly, cats and all, the boat is moored in Upton marina for the next month while hopefully we sort out the selling and buying of our house.

The solicitors are drawing out the process, asking us for details of planning permission for the conservatory we had built a few years ago even though it is not needed , but that's solicitors for you, anything to charge for another letter , fingers crossed that it won't be long now.

The sun is shining in July which is a rare occurrence for the last few years it makes every where look a lot better and we wish that we were on the boat enjoying it, the only one not looking forward to the boat are the cats who are really enjoying be back in their home.