Narrowboat Ezri – Leaving Littleborough – Part Two

Two weeks pass as Ezri and I sat Wharf above Bent house, and I called the Canal and River and told once again about not have water to carry on, I was asked to send my email again which I did but the only thing that happened was I got was a renewal form for…

Narrowboat Ezri – Leaving Littleborough – Part One

Well I writing again and this time its huge post, So it going to be in three parts. Before I start with moving tale, We have to go back a little and talk about the winter flood and being on winter moorings. I had winter Mooring permit for Lock 47 which end 29th February but…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles -No Were To Go

Yesterday was moving day, and that’s what me and my Dad did we moved Ezri. Only not to were we planed and most defiantly not in the way I am meant too. Let me tell you how things were meant to go Ezri leaves her winter mooring, heads down though two locks a small swing…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles –

This is going to short blog post, Winter moorings have come to an end that means moving I wrote before about having to go down the network. A task with some help, I hopefully will be able to do in the next 24 hours. And as its such a short trip I will try a…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles – After the Winter

I am going to break off from updating you about Ezri’s refit for this blog post, and talk about want happens next. As my winter mooring will come to an end soon, I need to start to think about moving once again and continuing the adventure that is now my life aboard Ezri. My plan…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles – The Refit- Carpets

You would think that with all the refit jobs I have given myself to do and the fact a few are taking longer that I thought, I would get my head down and work them one at a time one, but the more I look around Ezri was a paint, I can see how the…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles – The Refit- Colouring The World

I have the whole left hand side of Ezri painted out, from behind her fire place down past the two windows. And with the smaller paint brush I was able to paint around, though and a little over the plate rack which I stuck so I would had to brake it to take it down….

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles – The Refit- Pumps, Brushes and New Handles

In my tin ash bucket now sits the old broken bilge pump, which my dad removed after a little bit of banging and clanging as I painted the rest of Ezri’s left hand side wall. Unlike the one in the shower room this pump didn’t work, at first that sounded like huge task water on…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles – The Refit – Halfway There

Two jobs done and three to go. Ok its more like two jobs fully complete and one half way started, lets take a look the completed jobs first. Even having the right tools doesn’t always make job a simple one, the light to see is needed to like I said before all the job was…

Narrowboat Ezri – The Littleborough Chronicles- The Refit- Watching Paint Dry.

Now it may not sound the most exciting thing to do, but watching paint dry was really one of the jobs I had to do on Ezri this week. But I getting a little a head of myself so let me take you back to this time last week, my Uncle Andrew came to help…