#canalboat

Hail to the Hive! We finally have a new floating home and @millycf1976 has moved in right away while I shuttle back an k from Newton Abbot bringing our belongings slowly over to be stowed away neatly and

Hail to the Hive! For nearly 12 months now I’ve had an opportunity dangling before me ,seemingly ever out of reach, and all this time in limbo has kind of prevented us from making a decision about which

Hail to the Hive! Well hivers as many of you are aware myself and @millycf1976 have been looking to get another boat since we sold our little Narrowboat Badger last year. It's been an interesting time

Hail to the Hive! Ok so I've been struggling to hop back on to the old hive train for a while recently as so much was up in the air, some of which I was not able to share or discuss, and I felt somewhat

Hail to the Hive! We have now, as of this week, reached the 1 year anniversary of not only our return to the UK from the Philippines but our 1 year anniversary afloat living aboard badger the Narrowboat.

Hail to the Hive! We continue our journey on Badger the Narrowboat to Wales but in this segment we make a slight detour and come off the Trent and Mersey Canal and onto the Staffordshire & Worcestershire

Hail to the Hive! We continue to cruise through the UK on Badger the Narrowboat and in so many ways it is like being in the past and the present at the mame time. It is very much a living museum in many

Hail to the Hive! It’s a bloody good job Narrowboats are slow as I absolutely can’t resist taking shots of some of the bridges as I pas under them. I love the engineering & architecture, the stonework.

Hail to the Hive! After 3 days of cold, cold wind and rain Sunday was indeed a surprise with its blue sky and sunshine. Still cold but definitely cruising weather. We are slowly making our way to wales

Hail to the Hive! We realised recently that since we resumed cruising the canals, after being stuck in one place for 3 months, that we've essentially covered the same ground again. We re visited Leicester,

Hail to the Hive! We are on the move again. Making our way back to a location to have the boat look after while we visit @diveratt over the Christmas holidays. Cruising our way along the canal system deep

Hail to the Hive! This set of locks was not supposed to be opened for another few days but I had read online some conflicting information about when they were reopening and it looked as if work had possibly

Hail to the Hive! Now this is not only our first winter living on a boat but it is also our first full winter in any capacity in 8 years. And I hate being cold, hence moving to tropical climates many years

Hail to the Hive! Ok i need you to read the following words as if it was a classic blues song. Theres a youtube clip below to help you get in the mood. Ok here goes, ahem. Clears throat… I woke up this

Hail to the Hive! There’s a storm headed our way. Looking at the weather report it looks like a lot of rain and some extremely high winds will be here by the afternoon. As we were moored in the countryside,

Hail to the Hive! After over a week trapped in between 2 lock gates on a short stretch of canal the padlocks have ginally been removed giving Badger the Nattowboat and us some much needed freedom. This

Hail to the Hive! We are making our way back along the Grand Union Canal Leicester Arm and quite honestly feeling so good. The weather is a bit all over the place but being back in a nomadic rhythm feels

Hail to the Hive! This is Braunston Junction. A crossroads (or crosscanals) if you will. We have been in all 3 directions at this junction since being on Badger the Narrowboat and today find ourselves

Hail to the Hive! Now that we have been released back into the wild and are roaming free again I have decided to break out the drone as I haven’t really used it since returning to the UK. There weren’t

Hail to the Hive! We are now only a couple of days away from being set loose, as it were, from the boatyard. The new engine is in, test runs complete and only the tidying up and a bit of painting in the