wintry things, not much to do in the middle of nowhere! #ukcanals

Frozen in #UKCanals

December double rainbow 🌈

Welcome Maxine, Steve and Mexi 👋

Don't forget to use #ukcanals on posts 👍 it's full on #canal and #narrowboat content.

Which version of the dish are you using, and what’s power consumption like when running direct from 12V?

Welcome! Sounds like our first trip 2.5 years ago, out from Slough and north up the Grand Union!

Woke up this morning to snow! Scraps wasn’t so sure. Don’t forget to brush the snow off your solar panels! #UKcanals

A narrowboat moving through a lighted tunnel, motion blur

Tunnel vision

you'll love it!

Amazing paintwork!

a narrow lock with a narrowboat coming through it with the lock arm reading the number 42

An aptly numbered lock.

the cat enjoying the last rays of summer

hello there

Cupholder install has been successful

Crick Boat Show from the air. We're moored 3rd from the bottom there.

Yeah, we've made use of both multiple times already. It did quiet down a lot very quickly, one Sunday about two weeks ago we were outside all day from 11am and didn't see a single boat enter or leave the locks and actually checked to see if there was a stoppage or something!

It seems they don't tend to come out until later in spring, the local shrew populations have definitely declined somewhat since the beginning of May

Foxton Locks has become the focal point for this summer's cruising, not too upset about that - the Grand Union summit is divine rural territory. Hard to even find a shop for hours of cruising.

got lifted out for the first time!

Pictured: A Canal & River Trust employee ensuring the culvert assets are unblocked for spring

Tixall Wide (click for panorama)

We're headed down to Crick for the show as we've never been. We'll be at the market in Great Haywood for the holiday, we attended last year as well and it was a good atmosphere. Tixall Wide at the moment which is indeed stunning! Hoping we don't need any unscheduled work done anytime soon for sure

Spring's tantalizing rays

We wanted to (still in Fron), but apparently they're not draining it until mid Feb and they're not unplugging it as usual but pumping it out the "normal" way. Very sad.

Nothing better than a good solid piece of 1800s civil engineering

The twelve aqueducts of Christmas

Day 6: Coleford Aqueduct

Despite being nowhere near finished, the D&S had two completed aqueducts. This one, known as the Hucky Duck (a corruption of 'aqueduct') is someone's garden! They kindly invited me to scramble up to the top!

(1/2)

the sun!!!

winter scene

I got one based on your recommendation! It was delicious... although that molten cheese is dangerous

Very, however there was a casualty 😢 had to fish it out of the basin this morning