Showing posts with label Marple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marple. Show all posts
Monday, 18 September 2017

Burston out of Stone

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There’s some hope that the weather is going to improve and indeed it’s been a little better today. Sod’s Law being what it is, I expect the ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Back to Marple

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As I said yesterday, we'd planned to stop short of Marple today, just for the change of scene, but it was not to be. We made a good star...
Friday, 15 August 2014

We didn't miss Marple

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We figured that getting to Marple between ten and half past would be good and needed to allow time to wind first, so set off at eight, Sheil...
Sunday, 1 September 2013

It's September and it's Autumn

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When I was a gardener, I used to work to a simple division of the year into four three month seasons: Spring: March, April, May Summer: ...
Thursday, 29 August 2013

Marple days

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With just some more shopping and pott(er)ing on the schedule today, we had a lazy start. In the course of two trips to the village we first...
Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Shopping and a result

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After a peaceful night at High Lane we made a leisurely start this morning, and chugged the short distance into Marple, taking just on an h...
Friday, 21 September 2012

Back at Poynton for the night

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Things went much to plan today, though one unexpected problem has turned up… /floor It was Sheila's turn to steer in the rain, so af...
Thursday, 20 September 2012

Back to Marple

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Despite the grotty forecast, we needed to get back to Marple today so as to be at Poynton tomorrow. In the event, the rain wasn't quite ...
Saturday, 13 March 2010

Three days of activity

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11th, 12th & 13th March It’s been a good three days, by and large. On Wednesday night, after I’d posted the last entry on this blog, we ...
Saturday, 27 February 2010

A bit of boating, and a BW puzzle

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25th, 26th & 27th February The very slow improvement in the weather has continued, more or less. At least we’ve not seen any more ice on...
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Saturday, 6 February 2010

Out and about in the sun

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4th, 5th & 6th February We’ve been taking advantage of a spell of milder weather, especially as it looks as if we are going to have anot...
Friday, 18 December 2009

Three days to cover

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16th, 17th & 18th December I’m going to cover three days in this blog post so as to catch up, having missed doing one yesterday. On Wed...
Monday, 7 December 2009

Passing the time away

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6th & 7th December It’s been a quiet two days, again. Apart from anything else, the weather, which has not been quiet, has discouraged u...
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Thursday, 3 December 2009

Marple under mildly difficult circumstances

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2nd & 3rd December We made a prompt start yesterday on our delayed trip to Marple. The weather, although dry and reasonably calm, was bi...
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Monday, 23 November 2009

Through dirty weather to Marple and back

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22nd & 23rd November It’s going to be one of those shortish blogs today because we’re both very tired. Yesterday, we made a very lazy s...
Friday, 13 November 2009

Another trip to Marple, and not much progress on Sanity Again

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12th & 13th November Yesterday we made a prompt start on a brilliantly sunny morning (Sheila was steering) and were soon at Marple. The ...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Wet and windy

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2nd & 3rd November It’s been a wet couple of days, but then everyone else in the UK probably knows that. We had a wet trip to Deer Farm...
Friday, 30 October 2009

Nights interrupted by stags and owls

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29th & 30th October There’s not a lot to say today; this post is going to be about noisy stags, noisy owls and a walk in the woods. When...
Thursday, 22 October 2009

Quiet day, busy day

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21st & 22nd October One of the advantages of being on this mooring is that we are much less vulnerable to the effects of boats going pas...
Wednesday, 14 October 2009

A night in Bugsworth

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13th & 14th October Following through on the decision to visit Bugsworth Basin for the first time this year, we’d moored on the Upper Pe...
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