On our way up the Trent & Mersey and Coventry canals, we dropped in a few watering holes!

 

 

 

Christmas Card Scores on the Doors

Are Christmas cards going the way of postcards? Less cards this year (although some members of the household did leave some at work!!) and some things never change- animals still won, with birds coming second. The top animal this year was a dog.....  more homemade cards this year, mostly lino cuts- hooray!! Santa was this year beaten by nativity and there were far less carol/ Christmas song themed cards, unless you count "Sprout, Sprout, let it all out", in it's own way a winner! (Thanks to the Bewshers/ Whites.)

 For my favourite card, see the next page of the blog!

Canal Cartoons Day 1: Take this with a pinch of salt....they were both really nice!

No prizes for guessing where we stopped for lunch. The "Plum Pudding" pub was shut. It was named after the horrible narrow cutting we had to go through, which was probably even worse when it was a tunnel. It had its roof taken off due to mining subsidence....but a great butty at the Crown instead. Plus they had an old Coronation brick cemented into their wall and a nice old map.....

 

Life In The Slow Lane

 

Started off 2025 with a "Trip Up The Cut", as they say in Polesworth.

We set off from our base at King's Bromley in narrowboat Daydream. 

Drifting along at 3mph. It feels great!