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My own private thoughts and ignorance about the canals and waterways. (And no-one else's, except as quoted.)

Granny Ainsworth's Button Bags
5 Jan 2012 at 12:57pm
American author Jim Ainsworth has written a charming piece on his blog, entitled Granny's Buttons. He records how his wife retained his mother's old spare button bags after she died: My wife Jan sp...

Granny loses bid for place on the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
31 Dec 2011 at 10:00am
Dismay! I learned yesterday that Granny hasn't been accepted for a place on the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant , the 1,000-craft procession down the river on 3rd June 2012. I was quick off the mark...

Granny does the Four Counties
31 Dec 2011 at 9:10am
Granny has begun a week's tour of the Four Counties Ring, setting off from Burton-upon-Trent today, and returning next year. (Sven Latham has an excellent account of the Four Counties Ring from a w...

30 Canada geese in a row on the Isle of Wight
13 Dec 2011 at 6:18pm
Did you ever see my photo of Canada geese at Windmill End, south of the Netherton Tunnel? I took it in a cold, rainy dusk at the end of 2006, counting up to 18 birds, and at the time I...

Max Sinclair completes the dream
10 Dec 2011 at 12:41pm
I've been running back in my mind through the special things that have happened this year. One of my favourites is accompanying Max Sinclair and his family up the newly reopened Droitwich Junction ...

Fish slapping dance location
24 Nov 2011 at 10:55am
Teddington Lock in winter dusk, on 30th December 2008. Monty Python fans make pilgrimages from around the world to this site, to honour the location of the legendary Fish Slapping Dance:

A Farewell To Knees
14 Nov 2011 at 6:00pm
After I wrote about Remembrance Day, I was driven to thinking of A Farewell To Arms, the Elizabethan poem by George Peele (not the Hemingway novel which used its title.) Where Remembrance Day is ab...

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