Packing up my old galley ready for a refit. Balancing excitement and trepidation. Any advice on how to live healthily without a kitchen for a month gratefully received.

If I had a decent zoom camera, you’d see the beautiful colours of our local kingfisher, who had just caught his lunch when I took this pic earlier. Such vibrant colours - we’re so lucky to see them so much around here 😃

Time for my 3 yearly Watersports First Aid training course. I need to do this to maintain my RYA instructors qualification but would recommend it for all boaters

It may not be the best weather to visit your local businesses in person this #smallbusinesssaturday but many can be found online. Here’s ours kinverboatschool.co.uk

Local & small businesses are part of your area’s personality & strength. Please support us, even on the wettest and windiest of days.

Nervously awaiting my phone number porting which ‘failed’ yesterday. Both old and new networks insisted it’s not them, to contact the other. Much back and forth until finally the new one admitted a technical error, promising it will port today. If it doesn’t I request permission to cry!!

It feels like a good day to look forward to Spring - Kinver Boat School’s RYA Helmsman’s courses start up again in April. Availability here kinverboatschool.co.uk/rya-courses/
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Have you been at the controls?… Then why has my head gone numb?

My internet stopped working. That’s why I made the mug cake!

My (Narrowboat) solar panels are thick with snow - I really should’ve cleared them to make the most of the sun. But my cost benefit analysis found that staying in, under two blankets & not slipping off my icy gunnels into frigid water was better than a marginal gain in amps, volts or watt’ever.

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

We boaters marked through Birmingham city centre today against Canal and River Trust’s discriminatory licence fee hikes. It’s a continuation of their long campaign to price travelling boaters off the water. We won’t let them destroy our way of life.