My Recent Adventures

Bricking it about the Crick

The book is growing big legs it seems. After emailing my manuscript to the publishing company, it has apparently been read by a couple of professional readers for their opinion. It’s looking very positive. I thought I’d have to rewrite the whole thing. Between myself and the Publisher in Chief, we have decided to promote the book which will be in Waterstones (WATERSTONES!!!) mid May [...]

19
Mar

Feel Like I’ve Been Run Over

Well that worked a bit too well. 5 of us including delighted boat hostage had the absolute bestest day out cruising. Was it 4 or 5 pubs we stopped at along the way? What I absolutely [...]

11
Mar

Hostage Taken

I’m still waiting for the boat to be fixed. It’s utter torture. The weather has been lovely for at least a week and I can’t bare not being on a boat any longer. I need to [...]

10
Mar

Proper Job

I’d had a meeting with the client last July for a full repaint on a 20 year old bespoke kitchen. She had fully checked out my website and liked what she saw. I was just glad [...]

03
Mar

Never ever heard of THAT happening

We thought the injector had failed once again, that was why the boat was smoking so badly. Jules’s partner Bobby removed it for me the other day and I took it to a local firm who [...]

19
Feb

Fully Fledged

It’s taken me two-and-a-half years to write my book. I was worried it would be looked upon as a narcissist’s diary of stupidity (Try not to comment on that one if you can) Yesterday, Saturday February [...]

16
Feb

Smoking like a Beagle

I’m still having trouble with my damn engine. Ever since Big John fully restored her last year, she’s just not been right. It’s not his fault, you understand. At first we thought it was the reconditioned [...]

12
Feb

Sink, Swim or Sail?

I was imminently due to cross the dreaded Ribble Link. My cunning plan to achieve this, because there was no way my little boat with her single cylinder Sabb engine had the power to cross within [...]

03
Jan

Canal Carnage

I was becoming addicted to boat life. This new 162 mile round trip to Chester I was about to embark upon was fraught with the unknown. The only thing I did know was I was going [...]

02
Jan

A Cruising Catastrophe

Everyone gets water leaks on boats. It’s the nature of the beast. Not everyone, however, tries to scuttle their own boat with absolute ineptitude. I’d been in denial about my water pump sporadically kicking in. But [...]

01
Jan