A long day of boating. It was busy on the cut, but not crazily so, which is good for a bank-holiday (long) weelend.

The weather was gorgeous so I wore a wide-brim hat, long sleeves, and cotton gloves. There's nothing like holding a tiller all day for getting a sunburned right arm and hand.

Call it a boater's tan.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #boat #weather #sunshine #holiday

In dim light, spiders always look bigger than they are.

One just did a Tom Cruise Mission Impossible drop from a ceiling vent. Straight down, like it owns the place.
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I turn to the light switch, flick on the lights. By the time I turn back to it, the spider has made a speedy return to the ceiling. It's medium sized.

One gentle tissue-grab-and-shake later, and this spider finds itself on the canal towpath outside the swan doors.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #boat #bug #spider

Gestern war Kinotag in Leichester.

Sheep Detectives.

Absolut netter Film. Weicht in vielen Details vom Buch ab, machts aber ausgezeichnet. Schauempfehlung

#Narrowboat

It's time for moving on.

Cloudy days are days you don't get sunburned. If it rains, it usually blows over quickly, on days like this.

#CanalLife #canal #waterways #boating #narrowboat #boat #CRT #UK

Heaven

Blue is the colour of happy days rather than sad.
https://bartimaeus.blether.org.uk/heaven
#Narrowboat #LiveAboard #BoatsThatToot

Tonight we shine a light into the forgotten corners of history to explore a quiet, essential rhythm; the often-overlooked role of the people who wound the parish clocks, and the precious gift they gave, the burden of the awareness of time.

#podcast #history #clocks #time #ukcanals #villagelife #narrowboat #mentalhealth #slowlistening

https://www.noswpod.com/clock-winders/

We were set to pass a steel narrowboat when it slowly backed directly across our path. At 2 miles per hour, that's enough time to walk through the boat to the bow and push off.

"Sorry, sorry!" they said.

I said, "No worries; it's just boating. Everybody knows backing up is hard to do."

Like that 1960s Neil Sedaka song:
🎵 Don't take your boat
🎶 away from me
🎵 'Cause backing up
🎶 is hard to do

(I'm quite sure those are the lyrics.)

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #boat #reverse #BackUp

Our boat has a dedicated brush in the outside locker just for dog 💩 on shoes.

When you're trying to moor a moving boat, handling ropes, mooring pins, and mallet, it's easy to overlook an abandoned turd.

Dog owners who use the towpath to let their dog out—but who don't pick up after their pet—should be dunked in canal water. And then helped back out, of course. Boaters aren't mean-spirited folk.

#CanalLife #canal #towpath #pet #dog #walking #boating #narrowboat #boat #CRT #CanalAndRiverTrust