Showing posts with label Fradley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fradley. Show all posts
Friday, 29 June 2018

A bit further than we meant to

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I forgot to mention our excellent evening with Peter and Mel the other night. We had a merry time yet again – one of these days we'll ac...
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Monday, 16 April 2018

Pottering at Fradley

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As planned, we've been staying put here at Fradley today. Sheila ran a washload, it being Monday, which also meant giving the engine a d...
Saturday, 15 July 2017

Handily to Handsacre

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Alrewas to Handsacre is a longish day by our standards and we knew that, it being a Saturday in July, Fradley would get pretty frantic later...
Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Locking on and a good deed

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This is an experiment in creating the post in Pages on the iPad and then pasting it into the BlogPress editor. We'll see how it goes... ...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

Damp day to Alrewas and many meetings

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It was wet all morning, not a heavy rain, but a fine drizzle which could have been quite penetrating. We put our waterproof overalls on and...
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Thursday, 28 July 2016

On to Handsacre

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We'd had breakfast by seven and set off shortly after, Sheila steering and your correspondent walking ahead. Bob Drummond was keeping h...
Tuesday, 3 May 2016

On to Alrewas

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It's been a routine but very pleasant sort of day. We set off just before eight with the familiar run to Alrewas in prospect. The weath...
Friday, 25 September 2015

Back at Alrewas

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It's a very familiar route back to Alrewas but still one that passes through some very pleasant rural canal, especially the section fro...
Sunday, 9 August 2015

Heading for Handsacre

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We've had a largely straightforward run back to Handsacre in yet more pleasant weather. We estimated three to three and a half hours fr...
Monday, 29 June 2015

Locking up

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Another day went to plan today. We got away around 7.15, Sheila locking and yours truly steering. Sheila coped with all eight locks without...
Saturday, 9 May 2015

Another good day's boating

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We seem to be developing a special style of boating for this trip, a combination of our usual methods adapted to the current situation. Onc...
Monday, 23 June 2014

Frantic Fradley

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We got here yesterday after a very pleasant run from Whittington. We've stopped on the Coventry at the very start of the visitor mooring...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Turned out wet again

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We had a bit of a lie-in this morning and didn't surface until seven. So Sheila got dressed and started boating whilst I went through th...
Thursday, 19 September 2013

A short move and a damp finish

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Despite the main drawback of mooring on the T&M at Fradley, that is ageing bikers roaring up and down the access road to the Swan that ...
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

A bit dopey but still boating on

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It was another early start this morning; we were quite bleary eyed as a result of a poor night’s sleep. No idea why, just one of those thin...
Friday, 28 June 2013

Drizzly yet busy through Fradley

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Despite what certain hounds have blogged, yesterday was a well worthwhile exercise; Elanor’s garden looks a load better for it. I’m all in ...
Thursday, 11 April 2013

Turned out damp

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After a rather broken night, we made a lazy start this morning. It's been damp all day, occasionally actually raining but more often jus...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013

On to Fradley

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We had a very jolly time in the George and Dragon yesterday, and I was glad I'd had the foresight to post early. Not that I was legless...
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Saturday, 6 October 2012

Oh look, it's Fradley!

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Thinking about it last night, we reckoned that arriving at Fradley between half ten and half eleven would maximise our chances of getting a ...
Friday, 20 July 2012

A Quiet Friday at Fradley?

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In the days when Fradley Junction was a major OwnerShips base, the Friday scene was so chaotic in the summer that we christened it "Fre...
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