Nether Heywood and a new Editor for Waterways World

Today Gayton Junc to Nether Heyford, GU Canal, 4 miles 0 locks
Yesterday – Moored Nr Gayton Junction, Grand Union Canal

Plenty of walking done over the weekend as usual, as well as totally relaxing and getting used to the amazing amount of boats up and down the Grand Union Canal!  It takes a bit of getting used to as well, after spending the last 6 months over in the East.  You know, if two or three boats came past in a day we would have been surprised over in that area. 

The nice thing about walking is that invaribly there is the very obvious way to go.. the towpath!  Walking along the towpath there is much to been seen that is missed travelling by narrowboat.. a lot of the mile posts along this canal have a plaque on the base, not seen from the water.  The plaques have inscriptions on them, each dedicated to a person who has had some impact on that particular part of the canal in days gone by.  Chocolate Box photos too make me pick up my camera as I walk..

.. and here close to where NP was moored over the weekend, the interesting ‘cuts’ in the iron fixed to the bridge where the ropes from horses pulling the boats in the past have scared..

Yep you can see NP in the background… no she isn’t on fire!  It’s been a bit chilly in the evenings, we have had a cosy fire a couple of evenings this week!

Today then, we just moved up a short distance, still typical of our rate of speed.. we are never in a hurry, well not unless we have to. 

Lupin and the butty Sunny Valley came by yesterday, and here they are at The Wharf at Bugbrook.. we were going to stop over for lunch today, but there was nowhere to moor.. 

 I popped into Nether Heyford on arrival to take back the remaining library books to the mobile library which I knew was arriving there this afternoon.  My last chance to return any books from Northamptonshire.. soon we will be out of the county and into Warwickshire.  I phoned Tim at Staffordshire Canopies, and booked our slot at Gt Haywood for our new cratch and pram cover (aka ‘wigwam for wimps’) to be made and fitted the back end of October.  I am not a wimp really, but it will, for sure, provide another room in the winter, and a rather nice place from which to fish from!

I see Richard Fairhurst has moved from Waterscape to be Editor no less for Waterways World

After two-and-a-bit years, yesterday was my last day at Waterscape. On Monday, I start as editor of Waterways World (no hyperlink...yet), the best-selling and longest-established canal and river magazine.

I'm very proud of what we achieved at Waterscape, replacing the disaster zone that was the original Netdecisions-built site with a much more comprehensive, readable, and usable site costing a tiny fraction of the original.

Well that must surely be a huge loss to Waterscape I would think, but just as big a gain for Waterways World.  I am really looking forward to maybe a few changes in a mag that for me has become one that I don’t purchase anymore because of so many adverts, and another reason I don’t purchase it is because it seems always full of stuff that is not quite ‘on the towpath’ for my liking.  I do prefer their rival Canal Boat..

I am also looking forward to Richard putting Waterways World on the internet properly, although I do think it could do with a new domain name and a better front page than is there at present. Having said that, Canal Boat Magazine is not much better at the moment!!

Richard will do a grand job of putting Waterways World on the net for sure! Good Luck in your new job from me Richard

It’s getting very windy here.  We were planning on moving through Wilton and Buckby Locks tomorrow, but not if the wind remains so high.. NP hates the wind, and I hate NP’s behaviour in it!