The Journey and Journal Of Ezri NarrowBoat – Week Three – 2023

Just a reminder that this a living Journal write in the few hours of the events. It’s made up of seven days they may not be consecutive what they are continuous, there has been no spelling or grammar check. Wednesday 29 March – 12:38 pm Paper work days, that what things have become. Now the…

NarrowBoat Ezri – Short Trips – Back To Bollington.

With the turning of the key, the engine starts up, and off we head. Yet it’s not Ezri and I making this trip. But me, my dad and brother. We are heading back to Bollington by car because of the Canal and River Trust have been doing repairs out side of Clarence Mill which has…

NarrowBoat Ezri – Blueprints and Flow Charts

You would think, that I would just be able to sit down with a pen and paper and start writing all the steps I do to make Ezri work, and make Ezri move a long in the water. Then all the steps I take to operate a lock up/down, even the steps for the gas…

NarrowBoat Ezri – Peak Time Viewing

Me and Ezri have around bouncing on the Peak Forest and Macclesfield canal for almost three years now, in that time we have been to the Anderton Boat Lift down on the river Weaver and all the way back to Bugsworth Basin, then from Furness Vale to Lyne Green, taking our time to explore each…

NarrowBoat Ezri – So Long Summer.

We are now entering autumn, the small boatman fires are being lit and boat villages are starting to form for the winter time. Me and Ezri are now heading back on to the Peak Forest. Over the last four months, what was ment to be a few weeks off the grid adventure between the summer…

NarrowBoat Ezri – Peace On The Water.

How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. Having Ezri gives me the ability to step away from things like the internet, like the busyness and noise of…

NarrowBoat Ezri – GNDN or Wind in The Willows.

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” ― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows. It’s kind of a goes nowhere does nothing (GNDN) blog, the last official Ezri post was into the blue, talking about painting the rails…

Narrowboat Ezri- So What Are We Going To Now.

First off sorry for not having something out last week but over the holidays I very unwell and work also played its part. And to be totally truthful I don’t really have anything set in stone, Towards the end of last year a few things happened on the way back to our winter/home mooring which…

Narrowboat Ezri- The 100 Miles Adventure -The Voyage ‘Home’ 

Unlike the other story I know, this one doesn’t have any humpback whales, clocked starship or swing around the sun time travel, but what it does have is four swing bridges, low laying fog and one almost fall. But really in all  seriousness, Ezri is once again back at her home mooring and in a…