#narrowboat

Hail to the Hive! I know I know, I said i would be back posting daily and then I abscond for months on end. I am starting to realise that being busy isn’t an excuse, it’s a lack of discipline. But something

Hail to the Hive! We have been trapped in a specific area for a while due to lock closures and very low water levels in the canal, due to lack of rain and poor maintenance of the locks. It’s made a few

Hail to the Hive! Well when I say crossroads it’s a junction really. A meeting of canals where the Birmingham and Fazeley canal meets the Coventry Canal at FAzeley Junction We are very familiar with this

Hail to the Hive! My wife, best mate and now fellow Captain @millycf1976 has recently stepped up and took control of the tiller on the narrowboat and learned to drive our floating home. My absence from

Hail to the Hive! Well we did it. It’s actually happening as we have signed contracts, paid for and now picked up a second boat as a big project to do up, rennovate and hopefully move onto in the 9 hopefully

Hail to the Hive! We were recently moving the boat to a new location as we only have 2 weeks in any one spot and we like to be in beautiful spots close to facilities. This little stretch between Kilby

Hail to the Hive! We have been living on Canal narrowboats now for 4 years and have coped fairly well with living on boats that many would consider too small for full time living aboard but lately we have

Hail to the Hive! Todays selection were all taken along the same 100m of canal on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal, a mere 8 miles from the city centre. It’s a location we have stayed at many

Hail to the Hive! There’s something. Special about spring. I guess thats why there are so many religious and cultural connotations to it. Nature is awakening and the days are getting longer. The sun is

Hail to the Hive! Spring has sprung, as they say, and with it are these occasional glorious days, a tease, a sneak peak, a promise of what summer may yet give us in the near future. Or so I hope as last

Hail to the Hive! The Canal is often referred to as “The Cut” as it was literally cut into the landscape by hand , well many thousands of hands actually carrying shovels and picks. If you have watched

Hail to the Hive! I find it incredible how a place you may have visited dozens of times befdore can be transformed so wildly by the weather on any given day. Tae the Watford flight of locks for instance.

Hail to the Hive! Yessss, we are back off grid. Dailyu cruising through good weather and bad. Different mooring every night, fresh views and freedom. We do appreciate being able to use our little base

Hail to the Hive! we have been on the move again and nothing feels better than being nomadic again on the water, it’s liberating. The weather has been ostly shit though, rain and wind and higher winds

Hail to the Hive! Winter ain’t my favorite time of year to be sure to be sure but there is something to be said for the quality vibe it adds to Black & White photography. Leaves being removed from

Hail to the Hive! I’m a tropical person at heart. Give me a pair of flip flops and board shorts and the dilemma of which t shirt to wear every morning any day over the cold damp wet wintry shit that the

Hail to the Hive! We have now been living onboard our new narrowboat’Cygnet’ for over a year and as much as she is an improvement on living afloat in comparison to our old boat ‘Badger’ we still need to

Hail to the Hive! It has taken me a while but I think I’m re discovering my groove, getting my mojo back and just all round starting to feel like I’m getting back to doing stuff on my own terms. Marching

Hail to the Hive! Winter cruising is awesome. We saw a total of one other boat moving today before we set off and none at all moving while we were moving. It’s like having a private canal network all just

Hail to the Hive! I know what most people think when they think of being on the water in winter, cold, cold, wet, crap weather and cold and to be honest all of that does apply with freezing mist thrown