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…

The weekend of the 17th & 18th May found us taking a break from working on the boat and taking a short cruse to Titford for the Birmingham Canal Nagivation Society Summer rally. It was a lovely warm weekend and very nice to get out and about on the canal again (and also to make a…

Spring weather has been with us this weeks as we continue work on the boat that will become our new Floating Gallery. Progress is slow, as we clean off an accumulation of rust on the inside of the hull where water had got into the boat over the last couple of years. The engine has gone…

Christmas is well and truely over and we can now start looking ahead to the new year. This is the time when we usually concentrate on experimentation and looking at new designs for the coming year. With work progressing on the second boat and trips up and down between Eastbourne and Birmingham taking up some…