A female duck leading its ducklings down a path through the grass, beside taller, green canalside vegetation.
Mama marches the next generation into the future.
Though why these ducklings are on a canal towpath rather than in the water is a mystery.
#waterfowl #duck #duckling #canal #CanalLife #UK
A cast-iron ground paddle can be wound up or down from this painted, black-and-white station. It's alongside a canal, at the top (uphill) of a canal lock. There's green grass and vegetation on both sides of the canal, which extends into the distance and around a bend.
Made in 1902, this cast-iron winding station for raising and lowering a lock's ground paddle has been used continuously for almost 125 years.
Will it be in use in another 125 years? Can the Canal and River Trust, which is currently responsible for canal […]
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A white mute swan in someone's back yard, standing on a green patch of lawn that's been trimmed short by hungry water birds. This patch is separated from the rest of the yard by a black, metal gate. Beyond the gate are trees, bushes. And plants that the waterfowl are not welcome to eat. The yard ends at the canal, which has murky water in it. The swan is looking at the photographer (who—from the angle—must be on the water). The swan's meck and head are tilted and rotated in a classic "Got bread?" query.
Swan say "Got bread?"
But what does the fox say?
I saw this swan along the canal, today. It perked right up when ot saw me boating along, because as far as the swan is concerned, boat=bread.
But not every boat. And as we all know from Psychology 101 […]
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Guess what the orders are still coming in for and what Paul’s still painting 🎄
Come & see these and much more at Canal Cavalcade Little Venice over the weekend of 2-4 May
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#canallife #boatlife #littlevenice #grandunioncanal #canalart #floatingtraders #canaltraders
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - Life on the cut from Stev Brown. That's superb! 🫶
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
Nine hours of hard boating got me as far as a 40-minute car ride.
On average, it's 3 miles/hour, and 3 locks/hour.
The boat is big, so there were lots of nervous ducks and geese in the water, and nervous lambs on land. The first ducklings of the year were only 3 in number; the others either […]
A steel milepost or milestone, painted black and white, standing alongside a grassy towpath and hedgerow that's starting to bud for spring. The text on the milepost reads: Sharlow 49 miles. Preston Brook 43 miles. R&D. Stone. 1819.
Early milestones were stones with distances (in miles) to key towns chiselled in.
This "milestone" is steel. It was placed in 1819, and is now painted black and white—the traditional colours of everything that belonged to British Waterways.
15 years ago […]
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Oil check.
Radiator check.
Fluid check.
Battery check.
Inverter check.
Fill the water tank.
Pump check.
Flush check.
Leak check.
Fender check.
Chimney check.
Shoreline disconnected.
Stern and midlines untied.
Over the winter, someone absconded with my bow rope. Next time I moor in a marina, I […]
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY Rosie & Jim at Lionhearts Cruising club, photo from friend of Towpath Talk, Alison Wilkerson 💙
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
Pop across to our website to see Paul’s latest canal art creations
A stunning cabin stool
A beautiful bread bin
And some pretty coasters
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#indepenenttraders #floatingtraders #canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #rovingtraders #canalart
Easter done 🐣
Now to prepare for the busy month of May
2/4 May Canal Cavalcade - Little Venice
16/17 May Batchworth Boat Rally
23/25 May Crick Boat Show
#indepenenttraders #floatingtraders #canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #boatlife #canallife #macrame #canalart #cleaning #refillstation
First duckling sighting on the canal. 14 babies!! She’s got her hands full 🐣🐥🐥🐥🦆So lovely to see 🥰
#ducks #ducklings #easter #easterweekend #canal #canalLife #canals
We’ve moved off of our paid mooring a little further down the canal to trade today
This is our new location:
W3W: Fixed.bottom.racks
#RefillStation #indepenenttraders #floatingtraders #canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #grandunioncanal #canalart #macrame #cleaning #ukcanals #london #butty
The "gusts of wind" in the weather forecast were so loud, they woke me up. Roaring.
Also, waves slapping the hull and dishes clinking as the boat moves.
I fear for my chimney and its rain hat. (I know what it's actually called, but since I assume that term has a racist derivation, so rain hat […]
A brass toilet lock with a dial that says VACANT. It's mounted on an oak door that has an angled edge. This angled door, when it swings open, will clear the angled cabin wall. (The walls on a narrowboat typically angle inward. This is called the "tumble".)
There's an old-fashioned Vacant/Occupied dial on the boat's toilet door. It's angled. When it swings open, it clears the tumble (inward slant) of the cabin wall.
The shower is in a walk-through room. Its wood doors don't lock. In an emergency, I want […]
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At the stern hatch of a boat, a hand and thumb push a brass sliding bolt into its slot chiselled into an oak block. The block is attached to the overhead hatch. Most of the boat interior is oak wood, and the metal parts are brass. Along the upper-left edge of the hatch there's a door sweep, mounted upside down to keep out spiders.
For the stern hatch, I bought much larger, sturdier, brass sliding bolts.
Oak is hard wood, so it took a chisel and mallet, drill, hacksaw, and screwdriver to mount them. But it wasn't difficult.
Opening the hatch takes only 2 seconds—faster than I […]
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Definitely a work in progress but we’re set up alongside Warwick Avenue
W3W: decks.bounty.luck
For our fist weekend of trading with The Waka Butty
#canallife #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #floatingtraders #indepenenttraders #refillststation #cleaning #canalart #macrame #ukcanals #boatlife
I've been thinking about security. I need some bigger, stronger latches.
I think the culprit must have been interrupted by a passer-by.
Nothing was stolen but I can't think of another reason why I found the current latches broken.
#CanalLife #canal #UK #boating #boat #security #PropertyCrime #CRT
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY Gorgeous garden on board! Thank you Lee & Gwen (and Harvey the dog), for the photo.
What are you growing on board? 💐
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY
The visitors centre at Caen Hill locks on Saturday, taken by Towpath Talk follower Viv Horne. Love that reflection on the water!
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
A canal lined with trees on both sides. Alongside the canal, some trees are greening, some not yet. My train is crossing a bridge with a low, white railing; it is blurred, due to the train's speed. To the left, a high-speed train entering the frame in a blur. On the right is a green field and some distant trees. The lower half of the photo is filled by train tracks. Some catenary wiring is visible against the sky, which is partly cloudy, partly blue.
In England, canal companies preceded railway companies. Canals were dug along a level route. Later tracks were often laid alongside and overtop of canals.
I managed to get a photo of the Oxford North canal near Hillmorton, just as an oncoming train […]
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I'm scheduling people to join the boat next week. We'll fare well along a stretch of tree-lined canal that has a few locks to operate.
They'll be relaxing days of enjoying the sights, the waterway, and the wildlife (ducks, coots, moor hens, geese, and swans). Oh, and there will be stimulating […]
It is time to prepare the boat for boating. After all, it's not only a home and a (slow) mode of transportation, it's also a boat—a source of entertainment.
#canal #CanalLife #boating #narrowboat #boat #UK
What are you growing on board? We love this upcycling and inventive idea from Towpath Talk follower Steven Brown! 💐
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
Whose coming to the IWA canal cavalcade in Little Venice this year?
#narrowboatlife #canallife #boatlife #iwa #canalcavalcade #london #thingstodo #grandunioncanal #littlevenice #ukcanals
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - From Paul Wells of tenfiftythree images. Superb!
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
We thought a downside of The Butty would be lock sharing days to meet lovely new people and do our bit to conserve water were over
Yesterday paired up with a 37ft boat which fitted in the locks perfectly with us
#narrowboatlife #boatlife #canallife #grandunioncanal #canallocks #ukcanals
Slowly heading south down the Grand Union with The Waka Butty, currently at Cowroast, aiming for Apsley tomorrow
#ukcanals #independenttraders #canallife #Sustainable #narrowboatlife #canaltraders #rovingtraders #cleaning #RefillStation #BoatLife #canalart #macrame #floatingtraders #macrame
Now the Marsworth flight has reopened we can get our trip underway to Little Venice
Message if you like some of Paul’s canal art, my macrame or refills of Miniml eco/canal friendly cleaning products en route
#boatlife #canallife #grandunioncanal #independenttraders #canaltraders #canalart #macrame
📸 PHOTO OF THE DAY - from Towpath Talk follower Robert Yelland : CRT work barge moored at Top Lock on the Rufford branch... 🫶
#towpathtalk #canals #canalsandrivers #narrowboat #rivers #waterways #lifeonthecut #boating #boats #canallife #canallifeuk #UKCanals
