This years cruise started at the end of April. We had hped to get out earlier than that, but having decided to sell our house in Eastbourne, we needed to get that settled before leaving the basin. Completion on the house was 30th March, which was what we had hoped for, but not expected to…

It has been a very busy winter for us this year. It started with blacking the bottom of Enchanted moon. While on the slipway and under cover we stripped and repainted the roof as well, so it was a hard weeks work. We had help from friends for the first few days, which made a hard dirty…

We finished our summer cruise at the Black Country Boating Festival at Windmill End, Netherton. It was a very busy few days and the sun stayed out most of the time. Friends came to join us the weekend before, to help us through the single locks into Birmingham and back to Hawne Basin. In the…

Our summer cruise is going well. Trading was good at the Linslade Canal Festival and we also managed to meet up with old friends for a meal while we were there. Since then we have been at Marsworth Reservoire, Milton Keynes and Stoke Bruerne. I am now trying to post our location on facebook when…

We have been out on the waterways now since the 2nd week  in June, when friends came to help us down the single locks out of Birmingham, onto the top of the Grand Union Canal. Trading has been good so far at the Two Boats at Long Itchington, on the weekend of 18th, 19th, 20th…

The refurbished Gallery Boat is now open for business. Our first weekend on 9th & 10th May, at Hawne Basin, went realy well. Not only were sales good, but the boat and gallery received lots of nice comments. There is a video of the Open Weekend at Hawne Basin that shows me in the gallery…

First I must apologise for not keeping the blog up to date!! We have spent most of 2014 juggling committments in Sussex, Birmingham and elsewhere, trying to spend as much time as possible working on the boat refurbishement. Our target is now to have the boat ready by the Open Weekend here at Hawne basin…

We are getting ready to go to Greenbelt tomorrow and look forward to a good weekend. The weather forecast is not too bad and Saturday looks like being sunny! Over the last few weeks we have been making a supply of crosses for the event and also etching Celtic Knots to mount on pendants and…

Following our success with the musical clefts and notes at Chippenham, we have been creating new designs to etch in dichroic glass on our pendants and earrings. Some of the designs have been on the request of customers and other are our own inspiration.  The Giraffes were at the request of a festival going at…