Life on the water...

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 spent a great deal of time caring...

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 to apply, six months ago....

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 week's trip he did back in 2007)....

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...


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Hand painting all types of boats and specialising in the restoration/replication of historical working narrowboats, the company is based at Brinklow Boat Services building and fitting yard which is an established boatyard well known for it's quality in this particular area of the industry.

Full shotblasting services available for hull and top sides at our heated facility in Leicestershire. Two component Epoxy Pitch is apllied after blasting. Bitumen blacking services also at Brinklow dry dock which envolves preparaton of the hull using hand tools and then applying single component tar based paints.

 


Acomplised signwriting and traditional geometric designs can be applied here at Brinklow, aswell as beautiful illustrations painted straight on to your boat.