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Monday 21st March 2011
Sunday 20th March 2011

Sunday 21st March We have just spent the weekend here at Trent Lock. Yesterday it was really sunny although there was a bit of a chilly breeze in evidence if the…

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Friday 18th March 2011
Friday 18th March 2011

Thurday 17th March Today we actually did some travelling! We have come 9 miles and 5 locks to Shardlow where we moored in the village and obviously went to the…

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Wednesday 16th March 2011
Saturday 12th February 2011

Saturday 12th February We have been experiencing some unfortunate incidents since I last wote. Obviously there was George’s impromptu swim in the marina, which he has already told you about!…

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Wednesday 12th January 2011

Wednesday January 12th I’ve had a really bad week, you wouldn’t believe it! And it’s only Wednesday! The first disaster happened on Monday. We went in to the village, along…

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Sunday 19th December 2010

Sunday 19th December We have just returned from our week’s holiday in Suffolk. The time absolutely flew by and it seemed we had hardly arrived when it was time to…

Read the PostWeather, Holiday and George

Wednesday 8th December 2010

Wednesday 8th December On Monday, probably one of the coldest days of the year, in the absence of anything more interesting to do, we walked to Burton. Along the towpath,…

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Friday 3rd December 2010

Friday 3rd December Brrr it’s cold! We have been blanketed in snow here for several days now and the nights have been really cold. We have swapped onto Supertherm coal…

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