NB Gleemaiden

It is interesting to reflect that I still own one of the Tillerpins commissioned for use on the vessel, This has for sometime been installed on the windowsill of our house in Oakthorpe. Which h...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-tillerpin.html

It would be rather good if I could transfer all the posts from 'Midlandrover' to this site, because some clown has obliterated access to it by overlaying with another site that is only concerned...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2015/08/just-about-end-of-summer-so-few.html

Obviously I no longer own the boat after which the site has been named, but as it is still available on Google search, I thought that it would good platform for a reincarnation of our comings, go...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-restart-to-old-diary-of-happenings.html

This needs a little explaining - I haven't posted anything on this site since we sold the boat because we didn't feel that we ought to compromise the feelings of the purchasers by continuing und...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2011/10/possible-new-continuation.html

This is just a final posting to let anyone who still looks at this weblog that the principal subject of the site 'Gleemaiden' has been sold and that both of us have moved into a house in Rugby. ...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2010/06/late-final-extra.html

This is going to be an interesting year. perhaps I should have written t his posting before the last one, but forget the chronology, it is the content that counts - well anyway the relevance of t...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-year-rolls-on.html

Happy New to everybody who has been following this weblog. My apologies for not posting much news lately. No excuse of course, but not much boating either. We do of course visit the boa frequentl...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2010/01/walk-on-canal.html

After a very rainy couple of days - particularly on the Saturday when the dry-dock picture in the previous posting was taken. Sunday however turned out to be perfect and a phone call late that af...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/11/after-blacking.html

Lovely day for boating, all set and no wind; but forgot to take the television aerial down didn't I? Also setting off single handed, realised that one has to manage ropes by one's self. Pulled u...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/11/blacking.html

LOOK OUT! ITS BONFIRE NIGHT! No bonfire, but lots of . . . . . . well fireworks. This has nothing to do with boating we simply weren't there - there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest f...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/11/bonfire-night.html

This is a pretty silly heading for a blog post, but I thought it appropriate as the said puppy has kept us home bound and heading to the Dog's Trust or vet with his little problems. He has, howe...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/10/biggles-flies-again-well-sort-of.html

Glemaiden now has a new crew member who answers to the name of Biggles. The trouble is that he is still a puppy and hasn't had all his shots yet - so he is not even allowed to say hello to Poppy...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-crew-member.html

Ah yes! the swallows are swooping and sweeping by the boat, catching what they can as they skim the water between our side hatch and the grassy bank belonging to the meadow accross the canal....

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/09/autumnal-colours.html

Having arrived back at Brinklow and seen off our friend s, we were settling into a life of lakeside drinks and relaxation, when I got a phone call from Michael, a friend who lives in Arundel. He ...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/08/gardening-leave.html

Steve from K2 told me that the Ashby canal is rather shallo w - he is right, it is and also very narrow in many places. The excuse for not posting an article about this cruise is lamentable thoug...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/08/carry-on-up-ashby.html

Well, not really, we took the boat all of about 500 yards to the pump out point and back again yesterday, and yes I know that I promised at the beginning that I would not write of such banalities...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/08/short-cruise.html

The weather has been a bit odd lately, but I suppose everybody has noticed this phenomena - a good opportunity for an old fashioned moan, but not much fun for cruising. As it happens, we have h...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/normal-week.html

Right, well here we are at Warwick Castle. And it is not narrowboating, but at least a lot more up to date. There has been little of the cruising since Stoke Bruene as we have been in the throes ...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/enter-warwick-castle.html

I didn't think that you could get sunburnt in the Midlands; but you can. A heatwave Summer has been forecast, it seems that we were getting a taste of that on the Grand Union I can only say that ...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/stoke-bruene-pt-5.html

After mooring up near Norton Junction for the night, we set off a t a respectable hour the next morning to tackle the Buckby locks. Blimey but wasn't the weather getting hot! Neil and I were brea...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/stoke.html

I should add that we both fell in love with narrowboating back in 1997 when we were holidaying around the country by car. Seeing the canal at Oxford, we decided to follow part of its course to Bi...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/stoke-bruene-pt-3.html

It was Neil and Ruth's suggestion that Stoke Bruene would make a good destination for a shortish cruise and we jumped at the chance to tag along. So, on a bright Saturday morning we mad e a left ...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/stoke-bruene-pt-2.html

Quite a bit was going on at Brinklow before we set off for the EPIC VOYAGE to Stoke Bruene: Firstly; there is pond life again. Then there is hard work. . . . . . . This poor Typist wa...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/ante-stoke-bruene.html

The historic town of Stoke Bruene is known to all who travel the inland waterways of this country, so there is little to add, apart from our observations during the journey and whilst visiting St...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/07/two-tunnels-and-historic-village-part-1.html

Haven't been any where in particular for a few days - boating that is, apart from Braunston on Blow It'. But I think that I am getting fitter through some of the activities that we undertake. Cam...

http://nbgleemaiden.blogspot.com/2009/06/notes-from-small-village.html